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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...

Akamai Recommendations for Log4j Mitigation

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Livery Delivers a Seamless Low Latency Streaming Experience with Help from Akamai

Our new normal has ushered in the advent of hybrid events — a mix of in-person and virtual events. This has made seamless live streaming with active participation of the audience, both live and remote, more important than ever. Amsterdam-headquartered company Livery is an end-to-end SaaS solution...

Magecart Skimmers Are Alive and Well – Constant Vigilance Is Required

Magecart skimmers are here to stay, and they’re becoming more sophisticated, more creative, and harder to detect. In this post, we reveal a new skimmer infrastructure that targets ecommerce sites all over the world with advanced methods of detection evasion and obfuscation...

CVE-2021-44228 - Patching is Recommended for Evolving Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)

Akamai has been monitoring the rapidly evolving developments of CVE-2021-44228. We have been working closely with our customers and internal application teams to mitigate the risks posed by the threat of unauthorized remote code execution. This includes deploying an update to our existing Apache...

CVE-2021-44228 - Patching is Recommended for Evolving Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)

Akamai has been monitoring the rapidly evolving developments of CVE-2021-44228. We have been working closely with our customers and internal application teams to mitigate the risks posed by the threat of unauthorized remote code execution. This includes deploying an update to our existing Apache...

CVE-2021-44228 - Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)

See how Akamai helped open-source logging library Log4j fight against a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability and reduce customer exposure...

CVE-2021-44228 - Zero Day Vulnerability in Apache Log4j that allows remote code execution (RCE)

See how Akamai helped open-source logging library Log4j fight against a critical unauthenticated remote code execution RCE vulnerability and reduce customer exposure...

Announcing Property Manager Extensions for the Integrated Development Environment

We’re proud to announce the 1.0 release of the Property Manager extension to Visual Studio Code and Eclipse. With the new Property Manager extension, you can edit and validate Property Manager API PAPI JSON rule trees right from your integrated development environment IDE. It allows you to make a...

Security's Role in Internet Resilience

One aspect of resilience on the internet is that things — notably servers and resources — move around. Sometimes moves are legitimate, such as when a popular site evolves from hosting their own website to moving to a cloud provider to using a CDN to handle the ever-increasing traffic. Sometimes t...

Wedia, Digital Asset Management Software Provider, Delivers Seamless Digital Experiences with Help from Akamai

Wedia makes it possible for some of the world’s biggest companies to effectively manage, customize, and deliver their marketing assets. Akamai is delighted that this fantastic brand has chosen us to deliver a rich and engaging web experience for its customers while also ensuring the highest level...

2021 SOTI Security: Year End Review

What a year 2021 has been. Even as the world continues to re-open to various degrees, we’re still feeling the impact from 2020’s move to an almost completely virtual world. Many large companies are shifting to a hybrid model, mixing the ability to work from home with working in the office. Some a...

2021 SOTI Security: Year End Review

What a year 2021 has been. Even as the world continues to re-open to various degrees, we?re still feeling the impact from 2020?s move to an almost completely virtual world. Many large companies are shifting to a hybrid model, mixing the ability to work from home with working in the office. Some a...

Cybersecurity?s Rapid Metamorphosis from Tech Problem to Business Enabler

In March 2020, when businesses enforced a work-from-home policy because of the pandemic, many of us thought the move would last a few weeks or so. How could we have possibly known that the sudden move to remote working would create the now-normal hybrid workforce? Businesses of all types and size...

The Magic of ?What if?: The Next Big Leap in Innovation is Coming

In 1962, futurist Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote ?any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.? And indeed, in the nearly 60 years since Clarke made this statement, we have witnessed giant leaps in technology that initially may have seemed, well, like magic. Think about...

How to Cultivate a Security-first Approach to Your Business

Businesses of all types and sizes are struggling with complexity. They?re addressing hybrid workforces that need to be secured, digital transformation programs, geographic regulations and data laws, industry regulations, and the list goes on. In the midst of this complexity, organizations have to...

Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up Over 2020

Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Cyber Monday was up 5% globally compared to Cyber Monday 2020 and 31% compared to average Monday traffic...

Cyber Monday Web Traffic Up Over 2020

Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Cyber Monday was up 5% globally compared to Cyber Monday 2020 and 31% compared to average Monday traffic...

ID&E: Akamai’s Journey of Continuous Improvement

Akamai was founded to give the brightest minds somewhere to grow – and by surrounding ourselves with supportive individuals and an open culture, we can all bring our best, every day. It’s for this reason that our commitment to inclusion, diversity, and engagement is a key cornerstone of how we...

Black Friday Web Traffic Up Over 2020

Online retail traffic that Akamai delivered during Black Friday was up 2% globally compared to Black Friday 2020 and 14% compared to average Friday retail traffic. The modest year-over-year increase can be attributed to the significant rise in 2020 traffic due to COVID-19–related lockdowns and...

DataStream: Real-time Log Delivery for All Akamai Customers

We are pleased to announce that DataStream 2 is now available for all our customers. DataStream 2 provides customers with detailed log data from requests on the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform within minutes. DataStream 2 gives customers unparalleled visibility into events at the Akamai edge and...

Getting Ready for Some Holiday Shopping? So Are the Bots

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Placing Accessibility at Akamai – In Reach

Encouraging and supporting open discussions about disability and mental health at work. We define disability as a condition that affects everyday activities — physically, cognitively, and/or neurologically. In Reach helps the Akamai community understand what disability means in the workplace. As ...

Retail Data Needs Better Security in a Contextual World

Do you remember the first time you made an online purchase? Me neither. I’ve made so many online purchases over the years, and I’ve probably made more in the past 18 months than in the past 5 years combined...