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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reaching the Convergence of Security and Productivity

It’s all too common that IT security tools and practices come at the cost of productivity. Even physical security has this trade-off. There would be no rush to arrive at the airport an hour early if it weren’t for the extensive security measures that flying entails. As a result of this trade-off,...

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What’s New for Developers: April 2022

We have big news this month. You may have already heard that we acquired Linode, creating the world’s most distributed compute platform. In addition, we have release announcements and new developer content to share with you!...

Australia Experiences Massive Spike in WAF Multi-Vector, DDoS Attacks

With web applications under increased attacks, Akamai has analyzed data points for web application firewall WAF multi-vector and DDoS attacks between April 2021 and March 2022 to determine the severity of the situation in Australia...

World-Class Live Streaming From the Royal Opera House

Based in Covent Garden, London, the Royal Opera House brings together the world’s most extraordinary artists to share live, streamed, and broadcast events and performances. We’re delighted that this iconic British institution has chosen to work with Akamai to bring its fantastic productions to th...

Making the Edge Work for You

For many people, “building at the edge” may conjure fantastical images of nearly sci-fi–like computational power embedded on devices all around us, crunching massive volumes of data. We’re getting there. Today’s reality is that more workloads are moving to the edge to take advantage of the...

Demystify Supply Chain Emissions with Akamai’s New Carbon Calculator

Oftentimes, organizations view supply chains as an extension of their own business and require suppliers to adhere to codes of conduct, efficiency standards, and more. Today, this has expanded to environmental sustainability goals as well. Companies understand that the environmental impact of the...

Undetected Attacks on Anti-Malware Agents Using DNS Spoofing

Although we’ve made significant progress as a community in this regard, there are still instances in which the outcome of DNS spoofing attacks can go undetected. In this article, we describe a DNS spoofing attack that goes unnoticed by users...

Picture-Perfect Gaming Experience for WorldMatch

WorldMatch, a games and content provider for global markets, collaborates with some of the biggest international casinos. Headquartered in Italy and in operation since 2003, the gaming provider boasts a portfolio of more than 200 games, 160 slot machines with 70 game engines, 30 table games, and...

Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Windows RPC Runtime

Microsoft’s April 2022 Patch Tuesday introduced patches to more than a hundred new vulnerabilities in various components. Three critical vulnerabilities were found and patched in Windows RPC Remote Procedure Call runtime: CVE-2022-24492 and CVE-2022-24528 discovered by Yuki Chen with Cyber KunLun...

Akamai Is a Leader in Bot Management — What That Means for You

Obviously we’re proud to be a leader. Bot management is a contact sport, where being great is a requirement if you want to stop the persistent adversarial bots. So it’s rewarding to be recognized for the work we’re doing keeping the bad bots away from our customers’ digital businesses...

Markdown Menace: Discovering an LFI Vulnerability on a Blogging Platform

Protecting sensitive information is a recurring and widely known concern in the security community. As researchers, we know all too well how information can be used maliciously I mean, come on … it’s our job. Considering the size of the threat vector that is LFI, it’s something that developers an...

Why Linode+Akamai Is Transformational for How Developers Use the Cloud

Just three weeks have gone by since Akamai officially welcomed Linode into our fold, and I’m encouraged by the excitement that so many have expressed about the combination of our two companies since we announced the acquisition in February. In conversations with us, industry analysts use the word...

Conti?s Hacker Manuals ? Read, Reviewed & Analyzed

Conti is a notorious ransomware group that targets high-revenue organizations. They were first detected in 2020, and appear to be based in Russia. It is believed that the group is the successor to Ryuk ransomware group. According to Chainalysis, The ransomware group was the highest grossing of al...