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No cyberattack in sprawling internet outage, Akamai says

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A global internet outage on Thursday downed tens of thousands of websites, including those of giant corporations like McDonald’s and Delta Airlines, according to companies that track web statistics. But the company at the center of it says the downtime was not the result of a hack, data breach or other kind of malicious attack. Internet infrastructure company Akamai said it has fixed the issue that it began investigating shortly after noon EST. The specific problem was with Akamai Edge DNS, a service that touts its ability to provide constant Domain Name System availability. “Akamai can confirm this was not a cyberattack against Akamai’s platform,” the company said in a statement. “A software configuration update triggered a bug in the DNS system, the system that directs browsers to websites,” the company said in a statement explaining what went wrong. “This caused a disruption impacting availability of some customer websites.” Before […]

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HUMAN BotGuard helps enterprise customers protect web and mobile apps from bot attacks

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HUMAN Security announced its newly-named BotGuard and a range of new features to further help enterprise customers defend their website and mobile applications from sophisticated bot attacks and fraud. BotGuard is powered by the Human Verification Engi… Continue reading HUMAN BotGuard helps enterprise customers protect web and mobile apps from bot attacks→

Cloudflare integrates with Microsoft, Splunk, Datadog, and Sumo Logic

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Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company, announced new integrations with Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Splunk, Datadog, and Sumo Logic to make it easier for businesses to connect and analyze key insights across their infrastructure. … Continue reading Cloudflare integrates with Microsoft, Splunk, Datadog, and Sumo Logic→

Vantage raises $4M to help businesses understand their AWS costs

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Vantage, a service that helps businesses analyze and reduce their AWS costs, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. A number of angel investors, including Brianne Kimmel, Julia Lipton, Stephanie Friedman, Calvin French Owen, Ben and Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer and Justin Gage, also participated in this […] Continue reading Vantage raises $4M to help businesses understand their AWS costs→

DataDome raises $35M to scale its global sales, marketing, delivery and R&D teams

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DataDome announced that it has secured a $35M Series B investment. The funding round was led by New York-based Elephant, with participation from DataDome’s existing investor ISAI. The cash infusion will enable DataDome to aggressively scale its global … Continue reading DataDome raises $35M to scale its global sales, marketing, delivery and R&D teams→

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage platform delivers enhanced security and performance upgrades

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Backblaze announces the release for its B2 Cloud Storage platform. This latest Infrastructure-as-a-Service release includes a slate of security enhancements, performance upgrades, and new partnerships—expanding customers’ ability to build applications … Continue reading Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage platform delivers enhanced security and performance upgrades→

Merge raises $4.5M to help B2B companies build customer-facing integrations

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Merge, a startup that helps its users build customer-facing integrations with third-party tools, today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million seed round led by NEA. Additional angel investors include former MuleSoft CEO Greg Schott, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Expanse co-founders Tim Junio and Matt Kraning, and Jumpstart CEO Ben Herman. Launched in 2020, […] Continue reading Merge raises $4.5M to help B2B companies build customer-facing integrations→

How to prevent DDOS attack impact on Netlify? (downtime + bandwith usage/cost) [migrated]

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Situation:

React app that was initially running on a VPS
A few days ago, we were the target of a DDOS attack that took the site down.
During the attack, we decided to migrate to Netlify.
Once migrated, the site was live again. The attack … Continue reading How to prevent DDOS attack impact on Netlify? (downtime + bandwith usage/cost) [migrated]→