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3 Ways for Financial Institutions to Fight Account Takeover Fraud
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Entering Through the Gift Shop: Attacks on Commerce
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Powering and Protecting Life Online with Nature-Positive Action
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Attack Superhighway: A Deep Dive on Malicious DNS Traffic
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Akamai’s Perspective on February’s Patch Tuesday 2023
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. Read Akamai's insights and recommendations for February 2023. Learn what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
7 Key Takeaways for Financial Services from Recent Research
Although the financial services cybersecurity programs are some of the most mature in the world, cybercriminals continue to find ways to revitalize old attacks...
What’s New for Developers: October 2022
Read about our new Postman collections, the latest Akamai PowerShell release, our improvements to Edge Diagnostics, and how to quickly integrate Linode with Akamai...
Who’s Scanning the IPv6 Space? And, Frankly, Why Do We Even Care?
Securing IPv6 is no longer optional, it's a necessity. In this first of its kind empirical study on the vulnerability scanning landscape of IPv6, you'll learn the challenges and differences between IPv6 and IPv4 to be better prepared for the future...
Akamai’s Perspective on October’s Patch Tuesday 2022
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's October insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets
Guardicore has discovered FritzFrog, a sophisticated peer-to-peer P2P botnet that has been actively breaching SSH servers since January 2020...
DDoS in Financial Services: What to Know and What to Do
Akamai explores trends of recent application-layer DDoS attacks across the Financial Services industry...
Is Your Security Strategy Focused?
Strategic security leadership is the overarching recommendation in “How to Respond to the 2022 Cyberthreat Landscape,” a new report from Gartner®. Download your complimentary copy in this blog...
Risky Business: Determining Malicious Probabilities Through ASNs
Akamai researchers have analyzed ASNs to determine some shocking stats about the state of malicious IPs and where they are from...
Bots Are Scalping Israeli Government Services
Bots can be used for good, but can also be nefarious. In this post, see Akamai's research on the Israeli Gamken bot copycat...
FritzFrog: P2P Botnet Hops Back on the Scene
FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet, which means its command and control server is not limited to a single, centralized machine, but rather can be done from every machine in its distributed network. In other words, every host running the malware process becomes part of the network, and is capable ...
How to Get Started With Application Security
With a comprehensive security stack, Akamai’s application security solutions defend your entire ecosystem from threats. But before you can reap the benefits that come with application security, you need to create a configuration with Akamai’s APIs. Our Developer Advocacy team is here to walk you...
Livery Delivers a Seamless Low Latency Streaming Experience with Help from Akamai
Our new normal has ushered in the advent of hybrid events — a mix of in-person and virtual events. This has made seamless live streaming with active participation of the audience, both live and remote, more important than ever. Amsterdam-headquartered company Livery is an end-to-end SaaS solution...
Akamai Is Now a Cybersecurity Powerhouse
Over the past five years, we’ve grown Akamai’s security portfolio from point solutions into a comprehensive platform that provides defense in depth to address our customers’ biggest threats. The unique breadth of our defenses is important to our customers who want the most effective security...
Gaming Industry Paves the Way
Currently at $200 billion per year and growing, the gaming industry has grown from humble beginnings in the 1930s during which games like Baffle Ball and pinball were considered a degenerate form of leisure that would lead young men into lives of sin into a massive global phenomenon widely seen a...
Software-Defined Networking Concept Adoption at Akamai
Akamai engineering has adopted new technology concepts to enhance and expand routing capabilities at the edge. Previously, Akamai’s traffic-steering capabilities were mainly focused on DNS-based routing. In this article, we would like to give you an in-depth look at how Akamai has embraced new...
SMB Worm Indexsinas
New details in the Indexsinas SMB worm, also dubbed NSABuffMiner...
Stopping Ransomware and Lateral Movement with Segmentation
Learn how to take on the growing ransomware threat, and the necessity of network segmentation from VP of Cyber Research, Amit Serper...
Platform Update: Akamai Boosts Edge Application Power, Expanding Possibilities for Developers
Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update -- two days of new capabilities and innovations across our edge technology and security product portfolios...
Now Available: EdgeKV Distributed Key-Value Store
We're excited to announce the availability of EdgeKV, a distributed key-value store database that enables EdgeWorkers to leverage data stored at the edge when deploying custom code across our serverless computing platform...
A/B Testing, Now with EdgeKV
Now that we've written the framework of our code, let's layer in EdgeKV EKV, our distributed key-value store database...
Partnering With Verizon on the 2021 DBIR
By the time you read this post, the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report DBIR will be published. Akamai has been one of the many partners contributing data to this report for more than half a decade. We greatly value the time, effort, and dedicated data science that goes into providing...
Building a Cross Team Culture
At Akamai, we all contribute to our diverse, inclusive, and engaged culture. One in which we each have a voice and are empowered to have a meaningful impact on our business and its direction. It's by fostering this culture across teams that we're able to achieve the company's guiding principles...
Akamai Prolexic and Equinix Cloud Exchange Bring DDoS Defense Closer to the Origin
In terms of cyberthreats and digital risk, 2020 has been all about distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks...
Smart DNS: Emerging Requirements for DNS Encryption
This blog post -- the fourth in a series -- will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...
Research & Academic
We introduce a novel machine learning approach that uses network flows to generate application-level representation of public and private cloud networks. This will greatly simplify the journey to a micro-segmented network...
Evading Link Scanning Security Services with Passive Fingerprinting
By Gal Bitensky, Executive Summary Link scanners are a critical component in multiple classes of security products including email security suites, websites that suggest direct inspection of a suspicious link, and others. Behind the scenes, these services use web clients...
Don't Let DDoS Extortionists Deliver a KO Punch
Since mid-August, a variety of threat actors and copycats alike have been targeting organizations across all industries globally, threatening impending DDoS attacks unless Bitcoin is paid out. It's apparent, as the campaign rages on, that some businesses must be paying the extortion demands, --...
Safeguard Identity Data at the Source
When your customers create an account on your website or application, they are entrusting their valuable information with you in order to establish a relationship. To maintain that relationship, they need to have faith that you will protect their information...
ATA 8.0 Graduation Ceremony
Akamai Technical Academy is a training program designed for people who have an interest and aptitude for technology but may not come from a traditional technical background. Up until now, we have successfully onboarded over 140 incredible people in three Akamai locations: Cambridge MA, US, San Jo...
Computing at the Edge
Welcome to the Akamai October 2020 Update - a week of product updates, new features, and innovations. We'll be highlighting a different area of our portfolio each day this week. In today's post, we look at our enhanced edge computing capabilities and how they help developers more effectively and...
Unprecedented Levels of Ransom DDoS Extortion Attacks
The FBI has released a flash warning that thousands of organizations around the world, and across multiple industries, have been threatened with DDoS attacks unless they pay a bitcoin ransom. This ransom DDoS, or RDoS, threat was covered by Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team SIRT in a...
Every Application Should Be Behind a WAF
It's no secret that security threats continue to expand in volume and variety, making headlines on virtually a daily basis. From nation-state attacks, corporate espionage, and data exfiltration campaigns to all-in-one and sneaker bot campaigns, businesses across the globe find themselves dealing...
Abusing the Service Workers API
The Service Worker web API is a powerful new API for web browsers. During our research, we have found several ways attackers can leverage this API to enhance their low-to-medium risk findings into a powerful and meaningful attack. By...
Fake Cozy Bear Group Making DDoS Extortion Demands
A group calling themselves "Cozy Bear" has been emailing various companies with an extortion letter, demanding payment and threatening targeted DDoS attacks if their demands are not met...
Maximizing Onboarding: Giving managers the skills for success
Managing teams come with challenges as well as rewards. Managers drive individual and team performance, and the best managers drive employee connection and engagement. Akamai believes that employees are our biggest asset; by effectively and efficiently integrating them into the...
Enhancing Customer Value, Building Customer Relationships and Strengthening Team Collaboration
Effective communication skills are fundamental to developing both immediate and long term relationships with our customers. How else can we learn the answers to questions such as: "What are our customers concerns, needs, and desires?", "How can we best address their short and long term needs?", A...
In Conversation: Career Development as a Parent
Technology can only continue to thrive with the direct influence of those involved in its evolution. When the experiences of those people are broad, the tech industry benefits from the diversity of what they bring to the table. At Akamai,...
Identifying Vulnerabilities in Phishing Kits
While recently examining hundreds of phishing kits for ongoing research, Akamai discovered something interesting - several of the kits included basic vulnerabilities due to flimsy construction or reliance on outdated open source code. Considering the impact phishing kits have on...
How CDN Can Make Your APIs More Powerful
Companies of all sizes and in every industry use APIs for a staggering range of activities. Just a few examples: APIs make it easy to include weather forecasts in apps, recommend driving routes where you are least likely to have an accident, and allow banks to comply with open banking regulations...
Security Response Headers
Security response headers are a critical security capability that all organizations should consider. This blog post is the first in a series that will discuss different security headers and go in-depth with how to configure them for maximum benefit...
Six Years Since World IPv6 Launch: Entering the Majority Phases
While we still have a ways to go before residual users of IPv4 are truly "laggards", we are at a stage where the use of IPv6 should be considered the norm...
Operation Prowli: Monetizing 40,000 Victim Machines
Operation Prowli: Monetizing 40,000 Victim Machines...
How-To: Replaying Cellular Network Characteristics on Cloud Infrastructure
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