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Mitigating Spring Core “Spring4Shell” Zero-Day
When Spring, the Java-based application, fell victim to cyberattacks, Akamai's Adaptive Security Engine detected zero-day attacks and protected customers against them...
Meet Anthony Hogg: Senior Enterprise Architect and Lifelong Learner
At Akamai and across the tech industry at large, best practices and tools are constantly evolving. To keep up with these changes, a passion for learning is key, especially among those who support and enable others. One Senior Enterprise Architect on Akamai’s Advanced Solutions team, Anthony Hogg,...
Welcome to Edge Diagnostics
After more than a year of dedication and hard work, we are delighted to officially announce the launch of our new Edge Diagnostics application on March 30, 2022. Diagnosing network and content issues quickly and effectively is critical to your success! Therefore the aim is to make the existing...
A Fast and Seamless Gaming Experience for Gameloft
Gameloft is a leading gaming provider with more than 20 years of history. The company, created in 2000, has a passion for games and a desire to distribute them to even more players around the world. By bringing the wonders of games to mobile devices and, now, to all digital platforms, Gameloft ha...
Akamai Accelerator Program: Technological Solutions for India’s Water Crisis
Akamai’s India Corporate Social Responsibility CSR Trust is helping to tackle this major challenge. In accordance with the country’s CSR mandates, the trust allocates 2% of the branch’s revenue to CSR programs. Its flagship initiative is the Akamai Accelerator Program, which supports innovators w...
What’s New for Developers: March 2022
We have some excellent highlights this month. We’re excited to announce new videos, useful articles, an event recap, and much more...
What's Driving Multi-Factor Authentication Adoption?
The need for businesses to deploy MFA for the protection of employee accounts has never been greater — according to the latest Verizon Data Breach report, nearly 80% of data breaches involve the use of stolen or compromised employee credentials and brute force logins...
Akamai and Linode: Giving Developers One Place to Build, Run, and Secure Apps
I am incredibly excited to announce that today we have completed the acquisition of Linode. You may have seen our press release announcing the acquisition, or listened to our earnings call during which our executives discussed why this is the right strategic investment for Akamai. But I wanted to...
Adding Akamai Shared Domains to the Public Suffix List
Akamai plans to submit a number of our shared domains to the “PRIVATE” section of the Public Suffix List PSL at some point on or after March 31, 2022. The PSL contains multi-party domain suffixes and is used by a wide range of client software for example, web browsers to implement policy decision...
Himalaya Exchange Creates a New Digital Financial System
The Himalaya Exchange offers a new cryptocurrency that is designed to be resistant to extreme price volatility. A key aim for the company is to provide a revolutionary financial solution for the new digital age. Akamai is delighted that this hugely innovative company has chosen us to deliver a...
The “PhoneHome” DDoS Attack — Everything You Need to Know
A vulnerability in enterprise collaboration suite MiCollab by telecommunications company Mitel has been abused for distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks with record-breaking amplification potential...
Akamai Is a Leader in Forrester New Wave: Microsegmentation
We are excited to be named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Microsegmentation, Q1 2022. We were evaluated alongside eight other vendors in the microsegmentation space and ranked in 10 criteria, including product vision, interface and reporting, host agents, agentless aspect, product, and...
Six Key Takeaways from the OMB Memo
In May 2021, following a number of high-profile security incidents, U.S. President Biden issued an executive order that set out a high-level agenda to modernize and improve the government’s cyber resilience. This January, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget OMB issued a memo to the heads of...
DNS Cybersquatting: The Case for Edge DNS Zone Protect
Cybersquatting, also known as domain squatting, is a type of scam that mimics a brand's domain to confuse potential victims and gain their trust. According to Revision Legal, “Cybersquatting is prohibited in the U.S. by federal law under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ACPA.” These...
In China and Japan, Malicious Botnets Surge Amidst Holiday Ecommerce Traffic
Akamai data shows that in the days leading up to and including Lunar New Year, the activity of malicious bots increased 15% in China over the previous month. While a similar surge occurs during the high-traffic seen at the end-of-year holidays in EMEA and the U.S. — China and Japan present a...
The Akamai Foundation: Making a Global Impact
In 2021, the impact of the Akamai Foundation’s philanthropic activities continued to expand beyond science, technology, engineering, and mathematics STEM education, deepening our commitment to digital equity and inclusion around the globe and to making a positive impact in the communities we serv...
Greenwashing or Legit?
I think we can all agree that sustainability is one of the most important topics that we will discuss this year. It's driving consumer habits, business practices, and investment decisions. And it’s a discussion that’s happening at every level of the business; from procurement all the way up to th...
CVE-2022-26143: TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector
A new reflection/amplification distributed denial of service DDoS vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in the wild to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks...
How We’re Conserving Energy While Energizing Online Experiences
I’ve always loved building things. At Akamai, I get to be part of a team that builds amazing things — things that power and protect online experiences and make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. But delivering those online experiences comes with a catch...
What Does Fishing for Rebar Have to Do with Building a More Sustainable Internet?
Danny Lewin Community Care Days DLCCDs are a celebration of our late co-founder Danny Lewin’s generous spirit and his tenacious appetites for collaboration, innovation, and especially giving back to our global community. DLCCDs bring to life our values and empower all Akamai employees to voluntee...
Actions Akamai Is Taking on Russia and Ukraine
Akamai stands with the people of Ukraine. As the assault on Ukraine continues, we are inspired by the courageous citizens defending their sovereignty...
Powering and Protecting Online Privacy: iCloud Private Relay and Information for Akamai Customers
See how Apple worked with Akamai to launch iCloud Private Relay. Learn about the service and how it can be best leveraged for Akamai customers...
Creating a More Diverse Tech Future with the Akamai Foundation
2021, a year of creating a more diverse tech future with The Akamai Foundation...
TCP Middlebox Reflection: Coming to a DDoS Near You
Over the past week, Akamai Security Researchers have detected and analyzed a series of TCP reflection attacks, peaking at 11 Gbps at 1.5 Mpps, that were leveled against Akamai customers. The attack, amplified with a technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection, abuses vulnerable firewalls and conten...
Geopolitical Tensions Increase Risk of DDoS Attacks Among Other Damaging Intrusions
With Ukraine moving beyond the brink of war with an official invasion by Russia underway, organizations both near and afar must brace for potential repercussions in the form of crippling cyberattacks and intrusions. Already Ukraine has been bombarded with DDoS assaults aimed at taking down...
What’s New for Developers: February 2022
A lot has happened since we published our January recap blog. Akamai launched a new documentation site on readme.io, we started a new season of Terraform Tapas, and we saw many amazing contributions from our Developer Champions...
Operational Readiness and Response to the Ukraine Crisis
Akamai’s security and network teams use our vast view of internet activity to closely monitor and act upon potential cyber threats, and we are taking appropriate measures to review our defensive posture and ensure the integrity of Akamai systems and the Akamai network...
Akamai Wins Brandon Hall Award for Best Learning Technology
The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai’s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver medal for “Excellence in Technology,” for their automatic hands-on Lab Validation System LVS. The automatic LVS is used throughout Global Service training course...
A Definitive Guide to the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Filter
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Adding Multi-Factor Authentication to Employee Logins: A Sound Security Principle
The year 2021 was definitely challenging for security practitioners. The number of data breaches continued to rise; a report issued by the Identity Theft Resource Center stated that the total number of breaches in the first three quarters of 2021 exceeded the total number of events in all of 2020...
Meet Mike Elissen: Founder of Our Akamai Developer Champions Program
Our longest-standing Developer Advocate, Mike Elissen, noticed an opportunity to make Akamai’s developer relations even stronger. He co-created Developer Champions, an advocacy program that helps Akamai employees better meet customer needs...
Building the Future — Akamai’s Outlook on the Linode Acquisition
Akamai announced our intent to acquire Linode. The acquisition is intended to create the world’s most distributed compute platform. This new cloud to edge platform will make it easier for developers and businesses to build, run, and secure applications, especially given the complexities of Web3...
1&1 Versatel Expands Its Business Portfolio in Germany with Akamai
1&1 Versatel is a B2B provider for fibre gigabit connections and network-related services in Germany. The company is part of the United Internet AG and as such a sister company of 1&1 AG. 1&1 Versatel operates one of the biggest and most powerful fibre networks in Germany - providing its own...
Akamai’s Compliance with Cross-border Transfer Laws
Akamai is compliant with applicable data privacy regulations in countries where we and our customers conduct business. This is a fundamental tenet of our company’s core values. After all, when you make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day, there’s an expectation that you wi...
Log4j Bringing You Down? Try Infection Monkey’s New Log4Shell Attack Simulation
What if you could see how a real cyberattack might unfold in your network? Imagine the insights you would gain into your security posture if you could safely and easily simulate the behavior of malicious actors before they hit your defenses. That’s what the Infection Monkey does...
Exceptional Brand Experiences Go Far Beyond the 30-Second Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl LVI is almost here, and with that comes one of my favorite pastimes: watching the commercials! And you know I’m not alone — 30% of viewers tune in to the big game primarily to see the commercials, upping the pressure on CMOs to “get it right.” But winning the hearts and minds of the mo...
Why You Shouldn't Tie IP Addresses to Tokens
Locking tokens to the client IP address might seem like a good way to prevent content theft, such as sharing of authenticated URLs that include tokens. It might even appear to work in small-scale test environments. However, the internet has evolved to a point where it’s quite common for clients t...
Welcome to Akamai TechDocs
We're pleased to announce the launch of Akamai’s brand-new documentation site: techdocs.akamai.com. Powered by ReadMe, our new site offers intuitive and interactive content designed to help you get the most out of your Akamai products...
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Build Dynamic, Secure Broadband Access for All of the U.S.
All Americans, regardless of background or location, deserve a fast, safe, and reliable digital experience. Whether in Silicon Valley, rural Montana, or an underserved area in Chicago, entrepreneurs, businesses, and consumers should be on an equal footing online. Unfortunately, that is not the...
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 ...
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 ...
A New Approach to Blocking Malicious JavaScript
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What’s New for Developers: January 2022
Hello, and welcome to our very first Developer Community update of 2022. In this new monthly series, we’ll share highlights of what is happening across the Akamai Developer Community. Since this is the first blog we’re posting, we will also catch up on news from October 2021 through today...
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP): What You Need to Know
Universal Plug and Play UPnP is a widely used protocol with a decade-long history of flawed implementations across a wide range of consumer devices. In this paper, we will cover how these aws are still present on devices, how these vulnerabilities are actively being abused, and how a...
UPnProxy: Eternal Silence
UPnProxy is alive and well. There are 277,000 devices, out of a pool of 3.5 million, running vulnerable implementations of UPnP. Of those, Akamai can confirm that more than 45,000 have been compromised in a widely distributed UPnP NAT injection campaign...
Combat Piracy with Akamai Managed Content Protection
Learn how Akamai?s Managed Content Protection offering helps combat and mitigate the growing effects of online piracy for Akamai customers...
Combat Piracy with Akamai Managed Content Protection
Learn how Akamai’s Managed Content Protection offering helps combat and mitigate the growing effects of online piracy for Akamai customers...
Deploying Zero Trust Network Access for Secure Application Access? Don’t Forget to Secure Your Employees
Secure your workforce with the help of multi-factor authentication and Akamai's Zero Trust Network Access application in place of a virtual private network VPN...