Akamai Has Addressed Browser-Powered Desync Attacks

On August 10, 2022, security researcher James Kettle presented a set of novel HTTP request smuggling attacks in his Black Hat talk,...

Feature Spotlight: Extending Zero Trust Segmentation to the MacOS

Announcing our new agent for MacOS endpoints. Of all the leading Zero Trust segmentation providers, Akamai is the only vendor to support MacOS...

Akamai’s Perspective on August Patch Tuesday

Want the rundown of what to focus on with Patch Tuesday in one place? Check out this blog, and patch, patch, patch!...

Akamai?s Perspective on August Patch Tuesday

Want the rundown of what to focus on with Patch Tuesday in one place? Check out this blog, and patch, patch, patch!...

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...

Cybersecurity Issues in the Gaming Industry Portend Metaverse Challenges

The metaverse has greatly expanded the threat landscape. As industries gamify, gaming’s cybersecurity issues become a checklist for the future...

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...

India Becomes Top Global Target for API Attacks

An increased adoption of APIs also increases the risk of API attacks. Read about how India has become a top global target for API attacks in 2022...

Largest European DDoS Attack on Record

On Thursday, July 21st, Akamai detected and mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever launched against a European customer on the Prolexic platform...

Power Digital Growth with App & API Protector

Experience “no trade-offs protection” with a free trial of Akamai App & API Protector...

What’s New for Developers: July 2022

This month’s developer update is jam-packed with exciting news, helpful articles, and useful code, including a new Terraform Provider release and much more...

PCI DSS v4.0: Meeting Emerging Needs for Script Monitoring and Management

PCI DSS v4.0 makes Akamai Client-Side Protection & Compliance essential for any customer that processes or transmits cardholder data...

Game On! Rooter Achieves Massive Esports Growth

Learn how Rooter, India’s leading esports platform, achieved massive esports growth, delivering a gripping experience to players and fans alike...

Cybersecurity Is a Team Sport: 3 Takeaways from Israel’s Cyber Week

The future of cybersecurity relies on successful international partnerships and collaboration to ultimately thwart cybercriminals and cyberattacks...

The Kit That Wants It All: Scam Mimics PayPal?s Known Security Measures

Identity theft affects millions of people every year. See this piece on a scam purporting to be PayPal in an effort to gain total identity theft...

The Kit That Wants It All: Scam Mimics PayPal’s Known Security Measures

Identity theft affects millions of people every year. See this piece on a scam purporting to be PayPal in an effort to gain total identity theft...

Meet Tedd Smith: Solutions Engineer at Akamai

Meet Tedd Smith, solutions engineer at Akamai. He discusses today’s media-streaming landscape and how he crafts solutions for higher-quality user experiences...

Ransomware Attack on Airline Industry: Turning Point for India and Others

Cybercriminals are attacking organizations in the APAC region with ransomware. Learn how to implement security strategies to mitigate and recover from attacks...

Bloomfield Robotics Wins Funding to Feed People on Earth and in Space

Akamai awarded Bloomfield Robotics $1M in cloud, compute, and security products to grow their AI business and help feed the world...

Akamai’s Observations of Confluence Zero Day (CVE-2022-26134)

The Atlassian Confluence vulnerability is here to stay. See Akamai's research into the stats two weeks after the advisory was released...

Akamai?s Observations of Confluence Zero Day (CVE-2022-26134)

The Atlassian Confluence vulnerability is here to stay. See Akamai's research into the stats two weeks after the advisory was released...

What’s New for Developers: June 2022

Read about our recent Terraform updates and managed database services, our latest Meet the Developer articles, and stream videos on edge computing...

The Relentless Evolution of DDoS Attacks

Explore how DDoS attacks are practically unrecognizable from those of the past few years thanks to constant innovation in the threat landscape...

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...

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...

What's the Value of a Key-Value Store?

Learn about the benefits and drawbacks of a key-value store: a data structure designed for storing and returning values associated with keys as unique identifiers...

Meet Josh Johnson: Senior Enterprise Architect

A love of technology and coding brought Josh Johnson to Akamai. Learn what he thinks a developer-first approach means for the Akamai developer community...

Panchan?s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says ?Hi!?

Akamai researchers have discovered a new P2P botnet targeting APJ. Read about it here...

Panchan’s Mining Rig: New Golang Peer-to-Peer Botnet Says “Hi!”

Akamai researchers have discovered a new P2P botnet targeting APJ. Read about it here...

10 Years Since World IPv6 Launch

A decade past World IPv6 Launch and we are well through the migration away from legacy IPv4, but still have a long way to go...

Akamai: Protecting Life Online with Secure Internet Access

Easily deliver value-added security services to families and businesses with Akamai Secure Internet Access services for ISPs and MNOs...

The Next Generation of HTTP

The IETF just released HTTP/3, an update to HTTP that leverages new transport protocol QUIC. Learn about how the new RFCs can affect any references to HTTP...

How Akamai Works with Internet Organizations

Learn about a few of the internet organizations, who are developing standards and best practices, that Akamai works with to help foster innovation...

Akamai Protects Against the Atlassian Confluence 0-Day (CVE-2022-26134)

Atlassian has released a security advisory to address a remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-26134 that’s affecting Confluence Server and Data Center products...

DNS: The Easiest Way to Exfiltrate Data?

Low throughput DNS exfiltration is a slow and low attack technique that is very hard to detect. Learn how Akamai can quickly detect this in near real time...

How Akamai’s Employees Help Us Achieve Our Sustainability Goals

Learn about our commitment to environmental sustainability, Akamai Earth Month, and other campaigns that inspire employees to take action to protect the planet...

REvil Resurgence? Or a Copycat?

Has REvil returned? In this new post by Akamai's SIRT, see a DDoS incident by a threat actor claiming to be REvil...

What’s New for Developers: May 2022

Read on to get information on Akamai’s new managed database service powered by Linode, to watch a fun video on DDoS attacks, and more...

Meet Mike Schiessl: Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Meet Mike Schiessl to learn more about his career path, how companies can support a DevOps to DevSecOps transition, and the future of security and business...

4 Steps to Prepare for Open Enrollment: Ready for Takeoff?

Preparing for open enrollment is a key part of running efficient healthcare organizations, but it's difficult to know where to start. Learn which steps to take...

Detecting Malicious JavaScript with Secure Internet Access Enterprise Secure Web Gateway

JavaScript is everywhere, and when malicious can be hugely detrimental. In this blog, learn about the types of malicious JavaScript and how Akamai's SWG product helps keep you more secure from it...

How to Cover 6 Core Areas of PCI Compliance with Armis and Akamai

The joint security solution from Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Armis supports PCI compliance requirements to protect consumer data across entire networks...

RPC Runtime, Take Two: Discovering a New Vulnerability

Patching and bug hunting is a cyclical process. See part two of our Patch Tuesday RPC Runtime research, updated for May 2022...

Protecting Your Healthcare Organization During Uncertain Times

Explore three ways healthcare organizations can boost cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and ransomware protection to prepare for potential cyberthreats...

Phishing Is Still a Security Challenge

Phishing is not a new security problem. In fact, it’s been around since the earliest days of email when most users received numerous emails from African kings or other high-ranking officials who promised them great riches if they simply provided their bank account details. Things have changed a l...

Meet Limor Sinay: Director of Solutions Engineering

When companies are open to innovation and ongoing growth, technology is able to thrive. As the director of solutions engineering, Limor Sinay provides us with deeper insight into Akamai?s ever-evolving efforts to implement change and prioritize progressive thinking ? a goal that enables its...

An Attack Surface Workout for Web Application and API Attacks

WAF Attacks have been increasing dramatically over the last 9 months. These attacks cut across industries, geos and customers. Growth has largely been driven by Local File Inclusion lfi attacks, which took the lead from SQL Injection attacks in early 2021 before just taking off in the fall...

Zero Trust and the Fallacy of Secure Networks

Talking about secure networks is like talking about safe pools. A pool is just a body of water, and if it has enough water to swim in, then it has more than enough water to drown in. A pool is inherently unsafe. We, therefore, take care in how we use a pool: We don’t swim alone; we don’t run arou...

Multicloud, Multi-CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) Architecture – A Deceptive Future of the Internet

The last two years stood witness to multiple internet outages that caused massive disruptions across the globe. One prevalent theory is that multicloud, multi-CDNs content delivery networks are the inevitable future of the internet. This article conducts a litmus test on this theory and tries to...

Platform Update: Build the Future on Akamai

Today, technology is infused into nearly everything we do. The data behind personalized recommendations, connected devices, and wearables has changed how we engage with the world around us — whether we’re driving to a new destination, purchasing from a new retailer, or monitoring our health...