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SambaCry, the Seven Year Old Samba Vulnerability, is the Next Big Threat (for now)
As Samba is used as part of many organizations storage systems, we will discuss the impact of the vulnerability on organizations and home users...
DDoS of Past, Present and Future
The pervasiveness of technology has meant automation of tasks, allowing better productivity, with more time to do more. However, the dark side of technology would be that enterprises and individuals alike are vulnerable to cybercrimes, compromise of identities, loss of data and subject to malicio...
Reaching toward universal TLS SNI
The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in client support for TLS SNI a technology standard that makes HTTPS much more scaleable. While early 2014 saw fewer than 85% of HTTPS requests being sent by clients supporting TLS SNI, many Akamai customers today now see client TLS SNI usage...
HTTP/2 Server Push: The What, How and Why
What is HTTP/2 Server Push? How does it work? Why is it valuable? If you are looking for the answers to these questions, you've come to the right place. What it is HTTP/2 h2 Server Push is one of the performance features included in version 2 of the HTTP protocol. It allows the Web server to "pus...
Media Acceleration Enhances Online Experiences for OTT Video, Games and Software Downloads
Online audiences are growing and so are their expectations for the quality of experience. You know exactly what I mean if you've ever been frustrated with the rate at which a game is downloading or if your video stalls at the most inopportune time. Online streaming is no longer novel, it's the...
Nine Years of Better Broadband
One of the questions I am frequently asked about the State of the Internet is how things are changing - what are the trends we see in the data? As we've just closed out the ninth year of publication of the Connectivity report, I thought that it would be a good time to take look back and see just...
0.2 BTC Strikes Back, Now Attacking MySQL Databases
In this post we will describe how GGSN detected a wide ransomware attack targeting MySQL databases and provide recommendations on how to protect your database...
17 Essential Skills for Performance Engineers
Most people in the performance engineering field agree that our skillset is derived from an intersection of disciplines that include testing, optimization, and systems engineering...
Convenient Mobile Commerce is the Key to Success this Holiday Season
With the Black Friday, Cyber Monday holiday weekend upon us, retailers in the U.S. and abroad are preparing for another peak period for customer acquisition and commerce revenues. In 2016, the U.S. eCommerce market is the second largest globally and...
Yes, My Name is ||
Different cultures and nationalities have different naming conventions; I came from a one that led me to face the universe with a personal name "Or". I fact, my name has different meanings in different languages. In English the meaning of "Or" is function word that indicate alternatives and in...
Planning for the End of 2016: A Leap Second and the End-of-Support for SHA-1 TLS Certificates
A leap second and the final end of browser support for SHA-1 TLS certificates will happen and can potentially break software systems and applications...
The PhotoMiner Campaign
In this report we will share our research on the PhotoMiner’s timelines, infection strategies, C&C servers and provide tools to help detect the malware...
How to Report Your Performance Test Results Like a Pro
Performance tests try to reduce the risks of downtime or outages on multi-user systems by conducting experiments that use load to reveal limitations and errors in the system. Testing usually involves assessing the performance and capacity of systems that were expensive and time-consuming to build...
Revealing Guardicore Reveal™
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Redirecting On the Edge
On the web, every second counts. Service engineers and operations teams are looking for ways to save milliseconds from web pages' load times. One of the simpler ways to squeeze better performance from web pages already using a Content Delivery Network CDN is to move the redirection responses from...
Launching Forward with IPv6
With the era of freely available IPv4 addresses nearing its end, I'm pleased to see that 2012 appears to be the year when the IPv6 Internet will finally reach maturity and launch into wide-scale commercial use. For over a decade, the groundwork for the migration to version 6 of the Internet...
In China and Japan, Malicious Botnets Surge Amidst Holiday Ecommerce Traffic
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Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Trailblazer Rachel Bayley
In this Akamai FLAME Trailblazer blog post, Rachel Bayley encourages women to step into the unknown and to be their authentic selves...
The Oracle of Delphi Will Steal Your Credentials
Our deception technology is able to reroute attackers into honeypots, where they believe that they found their real target. The attacks brute forced passwords for RDP credentials to connect to the victim download and execute a previously undetected malware, which we named Trojan.sysscan...
Traffic to Super Bowl Advertisers Doubles During the Big Game
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Threats Making WAVs - Incident Response to a Cryptomining Attack
Guardicore security researchers describe and uncover a full analysis of a cryptomining attack, which hid a cryptominer inside WAV files. The report includes the full attack vectors, from detection, infection, network propagation and malware analysis and recommendations for optimizing incident...
The Nansh0u Campaign – Hackers Arsenal Grows Stronger
In the beginning of April, three attacks detected in the Guardicore Global Sensor Network GGSN caught our attention. All three had source IP addresses originating in South-Africa and hosted by VolumeDrive ISP see IoCs...