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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
The Crypto Revolution Reaches Fever Pitch for Today’s Phishing Scammers
Akamai threat researchers tracked continuous cyberattack and crypto-phishing campaigns that took advantage of cryptocurrency-based scams...
We Need to Encrypt DNS: Here’s Another Compelling Reason Why
Encrypting DNS servers is a necessary next step in web security to prevent sensitive materials from being breached, thus improving user privacy and security...
Mirai Botnet Abusing Log4j Vulnerability
Threat Researcher Larry Cashdollar has discovered evidence of the Mirai botnet abusing Log4j vulnerability and shares code examples...
A Log4j Retrospective Part 4: 5 Lessons Learned from Log4j
Read about strategies to help protect against new and more impactful security threats and vulnerabilities in Log4j from Akamai CTO Charlie Gero...
A Log4j Retrospective Part 3: Evolution — Payloads and Attack Diversification
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Discover and Announce: A Serverless Location Application Built on Akamai IoT Edge Connect
Learn about Discover and Announce, a 100% serverless application built on Akamai IoT Edge Connect, which can run entirely on the Akamai edge...
Discover and Announce: A Serverless Location Application Built on Akamai IoT Edge Connect
Learn about Discover and Announce, a 100% serverless application built on Akamai IoT Edge Connect, which can run entirely on the Akamai edge...
A Log4j Retrospective Part 2: Data Exfiltration and Remote Code Execution Exploits
Akamai CTO Charlie Gero shows how the Log4j threat surface could extend to unpatchable embedded and IoT devices...
Secure Your Kubernetes Clusters to Stop Ransomware
While containers offer speed and flexibility that have not been possible before in the data center, they are also exposed to security threats such as ransomware, cryptomining, and botnets...
A Log4j Retrospective Part 1: Vulnerability Background
Learn about the widely used Java-based logging library Log4j and how its vulnerability and other capabilities presented a major opportunity to attackers...
Abuse and Fraud Prevention's Co-Created Future — Predictions for 2022 and Beyond
Explore some of the Akamai Abuse and Fraud Prevention team’s predictions for the future of abuse and fraud protection in 2022 and beyond...
The Great Christmas Download
Video game downloads and console updates helped game industry traffic peak at 125% above average on Christmas day according to Akamai, which supports more than 225 game publishers globally...
Keeping Up with the Botnets
It’s no secret that the global pandemic increased opportunities for threat actors and cybercriminals to target financial services. Throughout 2020, scammers used the economic tension caused by COVID-19 — the promise of financial assistance, the stress of financial hardship — to target people acro...
Our Journey to Detect Log4j-Vulnerable Machines
Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 is a remote code execution RCE vulnerability in the Apache-foundation open-source logging library Log4j. It was published on December 9, 2021, and then all hell broke loose. As Log4j is a common logging library for Java applications, it is highly widespread...
The Everyday Impacts of Diversity and Inclusion at Akamai
To me, Diversity & Inclusion means a new way of thinking and engaging with society. It seems to be one of the most popular phrases that every person sees on the internet every day. I have been appointed as an ambassador of D&I for Akamai’s Asia-Pacific Japan region, and have been learning the...
Why I’m Proud to Protect Billions of People Worldwide
I decided to pursue a career in IT after working as a support engineer for internal employees as part of my very first job. It immediately opened my eyes to something that I found as interesting as I did shocking: Lots of people don’t understand information security — and what’s more, they don’t...
Quantifying Log4Shell: Vulnerability on a Massive Scale
The Log4Shell vulnerability is here to stay. There is a lot of speculation about the scope and true impact of the vulnerability: While many have labeled it “severe,” information is limited on how widespread the risk is. In order to shed some light on the issue, Akamai Threat Labs is utilizing its...
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...
Akamai Reports Another DoS in Log4j2 (CVE-2021-45105): What You Need to Know
The series of vulnerabilities recently discovered in Log4j2 has shocked the internet. As part of our continuing research, on December 17, Hideki Okamoto from Akamai found and responsibly reported an additional denial-of-service DoS vulnerability, which was assigned as CVE-2021-45105...
Threat Intelligence on Log4j CVE: Key Findings and Their Implications
Continuing with our research into CVE-2021-44228, Akamai has previously written about what the vulnerability is and given recommendations on how to go beyond patching for extra protection. Across the Akamai network, we see traffic from 1.3 billion unique devices daily, with record traffic of 182...