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Distinguishing Among DNS Services Part 2: The Economics
This is Part 2 of a three-part blog series highlighting some of the distinguishing aspects of Akamai's Domain Name System DNS services, Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management...
The dangers of firewall misconfigurations
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Can Edge Computing Exist Without the Edge? Part 1: The Edge
If the title sounds like a trick question, it really depends on who you ask. Semantically, it seems clear that if you take the "edge" and combine it with "computing" you get edge computing. But if you have been reading headlines, you would be justified in having doubts that the answer is that...
The Bondnet Army
Guardicore Labs has recently picked up Bondnet, a botnet of thousands of compromised servers of varying power. Managed and controlled remotely, the Bondnet is currently used to mine different cryptocurrencies and is ready to be weaponized immediately for other purposes such as mounting DDoS attac...
Watch Your Step: The Prevalence of IDN Homograph Attacks
The internationalized domain name IDN homograph attack is used to form domain names that visually resemble legitimate domain names, albeit, using a different set of characters 1. For example, the IDN...
Staying Healthy, Focused, and Above All Grateful During the COVID-19 Crisis
By now, we are all subject in one way or another to the far-reaching impact of COVID-19. As we see on the news each day, the numbers of those infected by this deadly coronavirus continue to grow in terrifying increments. And even for those of us without family members or friends directly impacted...
The Building Wave of Internet Traffic
The Novel Coronavirus, and the resulting viral respiratory illness caused by it, COVID-19, is changing our world. As much as possible, people around the world are practicing social distancing. This means working remotely for a large number of people, possibly...
Tech That Makes a Difference: Sustainability
As the Internet grows, so does energy usage. As a result, all large tech organizations have a responsibility to monitor and improve their impact on the environment. At Akamai, we are well aware of the impact we can have, both...
Akamai Partners with Supplier To Meet Sustainability Goals
Akamai strives to mitigate the impact of our operations while maximizing and enhancing the benefits of our sustainable business practices. We are working hard to hit our sustainability goals by: creating a more sustainable platform through reducing network energy intensity by way of engineering...
The Massive Propagation Of The Smominru Botnet
In this post, Guardicore Labs provides an in-depth analysis of the attack campaign, focusing on victim analysis and attack infrastructure...
In Conversation: It's Never Too Late
There can be barriers to pursuing a career in tech. For many people, the journey isn't straightforward. Many of our Akamai employees have diverse backgrounds and have overcome obstacles to pursue their dream career. Often, the way forward into a...
Latest ECHOBOT: 26 Infection Vectors
Introduction Since the release of the Mirai source code in October of 2016, there have been hundreds of variants. While publishing my own research, I noticed that Palo Alto Networks was also examining similar samples, and published their findings. Earlier...
Words of Wisdom: Advice for Pursuing a Career in Tech
The introduction of AI into the workplace is creating uncertainty over the future of employment. However, research shows that tech will create "133 million" more jobs before 2022 than it will dissolve, as "new entities in the economy replace obsolete...
The Leaders of the Future: Tech for Growing Minds
Jobs in the STEM and Tech fields are growing at "three times the pace of non-STEM jobs." The rise of technological advances means the tech industry is not slowing down anytime soon. In the next decade, there will be 1...
Avoiding Security Misconfiguration
Security Misconfiguration exposes networks to risk on premises and the cloud. What do you need to know to limit firewall security misconfiguration?...
Life at Akamai: Making Connections
By the numbers, Akamai's scale, reach and ability to help brands connect users to immersive and immediate online experiences while protecting their businesses from threats, is quite impressive. While I'm proud that Akamai connects with billions of devices daily and...
How-To: Add Timing-Allow-Origin Header to Improve Your Website Performance Measurements
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Spotlight on Malware DGA Communication Technique
Written by Avi Aminov and Or Katz Overview Imagine you are standing in the middle of a crowded train station and want to have a private conversation with an old friend. You've been waiting for the perfect time to contact him and get some advice on how to move forward with some important life...
Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Trailblazer Rachel Bayley
In this Akamai FLAME Trailblazer blog post, Rachel Bayley encourages women to step into the unknown and to be their authentic selves...
With Val Kilmer’s AI Twin, Is Gen AI Forcing Hollywood to the Edge?
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CVE-2026-66066: Defending Against the “KindaRails2Shell” Pre-Auth RCE
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A New Definition of Hyperscale
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Langflow Exploited to Build Custom DDoS Gafgyt Botnets
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Adaptive AI for Detecting Modern DGA Attacks
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The Hidden Latency Tax in Retail Personalization
Every personalization decision adds latency that has a measurable cost in conversions and order value. Learn where that cost comes from — and how to avoid paying it...
Your AI Cost Model Stops at the Token Price. The Bill Doesn't.
Your AI cost model stops at the token price, but the bill doesn't. Discover why almost 80% of production AI spend sits in inference and how to optimize your setup...
Distributed AI Inference: Why Placement Is the New Bottleneck
In real AI systems, bottlenecks don't disappear, they move. Learn about why inference placement, not raw compute, is the decisive infrastructure question...
One Is a Fluke, 3 Is a Pattern: MCP Back-End Vulnerabilities
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How a Streaming Company Scaled Akamai EdgeWorkers to 3 Trillion Requests
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Observability for Akamai Cloud: Get Started with Akamai Cloud Pulse
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Why Managed Agents Needs Distributed Infrastructure
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AI in Vulnerability Discovery: A Call for Human Oversight and Caution
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The Mistral–Koyeb Deal and the Shift Toward Architectural Maturity in AI
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Build Transformative Security with AI-Powered WAF Detections
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Avoid Evasive Scraping with Stronger Content Protection
Learn about the enhancements to Akamai Content Protector that stop evasive scraping across web and mobile while minimizing user friction and false positives...
CVE-2026-26365: Incorrect processing of “Connection: Transfer-Encoding”
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Benchmarking NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Akamai Cloud
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A Guide to International Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
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OpenAPI Documentation for Spin Apps with Rust
Learn how to create, customize, and serve OpenAPI Documentation from within Spin apps written in Rust...
CVE-2025-32094: HTTP Request Smuggling Via OPTIONS + Obsolete Line Folding
In March 2025, Akamai received a bug bounty report identifying an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability that was quickly resolved for all customers...
Gartner Market Guide: Microsegmentation for Zero Trust and Resilience
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Scaling Spin Apps With KEDA
Scale Spin apps on Kubernetes using SpinKube and KEDA for event-driven autoscaling based on Amazon SQS queue metrics...
Serverless A2A with Spin
Learn how to build serverless agent-to-agent A2A apps with Spin...
Helping Our Customers Develop a Sustainability Strategy
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API Security Is Key to Cyber Resilience in Media and Entertainment
For media and entertainment companies, API expansion means a broader attack surface. Security needs to stay a step ahead...
What Are the Benefits of a Microservices Architecture?
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Speed with Precision: Early and Accurate Response to Apache Camel CVEs
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Akamai Named a Leader in the Latest Forrester Report for WAF Solutions
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