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Exploiting a Critical Spoofing Vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI
Akamai researchers have analyzed a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's CryptoAPI that would allow an attacker to masquerade as a legitimate entity...
SEO Need-to-Knows: Google’s Core Web Vitals, Part 2 of 5
Learn about Google's Core Web Vitals — LCP, FID, and CLS — and how improving them can enhance your users’ experience and SEO ranking...
What’s New for Developers: 2022 Recap
Read the year-end review of developer highlights for 2022...
Resource Limit Increases for EdgeWorkers Yield Big Results
Read about how EdgeWorkers reduced errors resulting from resource limit constraints — unlocking even more opportunities for businesses...
Improving Popularity Rankings for Better Threat Intelligence, Part 1
AkaRank can overcome biases in current domain popularity lists and help ensure the best threat coverage and user experience...
Akamai’s Perspective on January’s Patch Tuesday 2023
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
What Challenges Will 2023 Bring for Cyber?
In 2023, the tech industry must address workforce diversity, manage cyber risks and regulations, and understand how innovation can challenge cyber resiliency...
3 Ransomware Questions Every Security Leader Should Be Able to Answer
Read about how organizations need microsegmentation to identify and remediate ransomware attacks, and the ransomware questions they need to answer...
Building an Effective Bot Management Strategy
Effectively managing bot traffic requires a combination of strong detection and response strategies. Here, we explore Akamai’s methods for implementing both...
Boost Your Page Load Times with Performance Engineering, Part 1 of 5
Get up to speed with web performance, the Core Web Vitals, and other metrics to increase your revenue and rank your page higher on Google...
Emulating KmsdBot’s Command and Control and Examining Its Attack Traffic
Read about the global impact of KmsdBot, a botnet that hit our honeypot earlier this year, and why the evidence is pointing toward it being a DDoS for hire...
Careful Workload Placement Can Create Cloud Cost Savings
Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure requires the careful placement of workloads in the environments best suited to their execution...
Akamai’s Perspective on December’s Patch Tuesday 2022
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's December insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
Why Do I Need Zero Trust on My Endpoint If I Have EDR/XDR?
Do you need a Zero Trust solution if you have EDR/XDR installed? The short answer is yes — you need both...
You’ve Crossed the Line — Disturbing a Host’s Rest
Akamai researchers explore two new vulnerabilities that can be exploited to lead to denial-of-service attacks against container and session services...
Measuring User Experience with Real User Data
Use data from real users to improve the user experience UX of your site or app, and draw on real behavior and outcomes for effective UX decision-making...
Akamai Welcomed Partners to a Memorable Asia-Pacific and Japan Partner Summit
Learn about the recent Akamai APJ Partner Summit 2022, including new revenue opportunities for our partners – and the awards we gave...
An Overview of MS-RPC and Its Security Mechanisms
MS-RPC is a widely used protocol, but not much security research is done on it. In this blog, see an overview of MS-RPC and their security mechanisms...
Is Stopping a Ransomware Attack More Important Than Preventing One?
Microsegmentation can stop a ransomware attack from moving laterally across your organization and prevent malicious behavior...
Elevate Streaming Media with EdgeWorkers and Macrometa Stream Workers
Elevate players’ gaming experiences with Akamai EdgeWorkers and Macrometa Stream Workers...
Not Every Cloud Is Meant for Every Workload
Understanding which cloud platforms are the best fit for which workloads can maximize your return on investment and your customers’ output...
A Closer Look at Ransomware Attack Trends in APJ
Read about the surge of ransomware as a service RaaS cyberattack trends in APJ, and the infamous and prolific Conti group’s role in them...
Accidentally Crashing a Botnet
As part of our research into the cryptomining botnet kmsdbot, we rendered it useless...
Expanding API Security Awareness at API World
API security should be a primary concern for organizations. Learn about the three principles of APIs to help protect against attacks...
Enemy at the Gates: Analyzing Attacks on Financial Services
Financial services is an often attacked vertical, but to what extent and how? This blog post will cover several security issues affecting this industry...
Audience Hijacking ? A Retailer?s Grinch This Holiday Season
Understand the significant threat that audience hijacking poses to customer online buying journeys and retailers? revenue this holiday season...
Wartime Sparks Unpredictable Shifts in DDoS Targeting
DDoS cyberattacks targeting European customers on the Akamai Prolexic platform are increasing worldwide, In response, Akamai unveiled its new DDoS solution...
Manage Akamai Features at the Edge with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV
EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV lets you set feature flags that tailor content to different website visitors...
Four Steps: Effective API Security Using a Digital Bonding Strategy
Focus on API security as part of your digital bonding strategy, because APIs are already connecting your business activities...
Akamai Is Delighted to Partner with Teneo and Bytes Software Services
Akamai’s partnerships with Teneo and Bytes Software Solutions help us to adapt, grow, and innovate in an ever-changing landscape...
Akamai Is Delighted to Partner with Teneo and Bytes Software Services
Akamai?s partnerships with Teneo and Bytes Software Solutions help us to adapt, grow, and innovate in an ever-changing landscape...
What’s New for Developers: November 2022
Read about the EdgeGrid PHP client update, EdgeWorkers news, the Terraform Provider 3.0 release, and the new Build, Deliver & Secure video series...
SD-WAN Integration: Routing Traffic to Optimize Network Performance
Optimize network performance with SD-WAN integration to automatically route traffic to the nearest Akamai Secure Internet Access point of presence...
Highly Sophisticated Phishing Scams Are Abusing Holiday Sentiment
The holiday season is around the corner, which means phishing season is too. Akamai Security Research details the new ways adversaries are abusing the holidays...
Akamai’s Perspective on November’s Patch Tuesday
Every Patch Tuesday stirs up the community. See Akamai's November insights and recommendations on what to focus on, and patch, patch, patch!...
Tackle Your Cloud Challenges, One Scenario at a Time
Forrester’s quick start cards cover 18 common issues with cloud migrations and operations, and suggest actions to mitigate each one...
KmsdBot: The Attack and Mine Malware
Akamai security research has observed a new malware: a cryptominer with dreams of DDoS functionality. Read about kmdsbot in this blog...
Evolving Digital Experiences at the Edge
The modern application has evolved and shifted to the edge. This inevitable adoption is improving the digital experience for end users...
On-Ramping Traffic to a Cloud-Based Secure Web Gateway
Though cloud-based secure web gateways SWGs eliminate many problems, it’s important to select the right approach to on-ramping traffic based on use case and protection level...
CDN Meets GDN: Akamai Partners with Macrometa
The web needs a CDN; the cloud needs a GDN. What does that mean and why is it important for developers?...
An update on the impact of OpenSSL CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 on Akamai's systems
In this post, we share the impact of the OpenSSL vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 on Akamai and our customers...
Improve URL Redirects with EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV
Use Akamai EdgeWorkers and Akamai EdgeKV to make intelligent redirect decisions...
DNS Threat Report — Q3 2022
Akamai's visibility into global traffic through Q3 provides insight into phishing campaigns and potential user susceptibility to malware attacks...
Effectively Preparing for the OpenSSL 3.x Vulnerability
With all the noise about the OpenSSL vulnerability, see this blog about how to prepare for mitigation when the patch is released...
Better A/B Testing with EdgeWorkers + EdgeKV
Learn how to use Akamai EdgeWorkers and EdgeKV to create easy-to-control A/B tests...
User-Agent Reduction
Chrome is rolling out changes to the browser’s User-Agent string that will affect how web servers, applications, and CDNs like Akamai gather information about the current user agent such as the browser’s version, device, and platform information...
dhpcd: The Cryptominer That Hid for Four Years
Akamai Researchers have uncovered a long-running attack campaign attack targeting Linux SSH servers that has been running a monero cryptominer...
Akamai’s Prolexic Launches Sixth-Generation DDoS Platform Upgrade
Today, we are excited to announce a significant evolution of Akamai’s distributed denial-of-service DDoS protection solution, Prolexic...