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Over the past week, memcached reflection attacks have taken the DDoS scene by storm. With several attacks hitting organizations across many industries, including a record breaking 1.3Tbps attack against an Akamai customer. Akamai has observed a new tre… Continue reading memcached, now with extortion!
Over the past week, memcached reflection attacks have taken the DDoS scene by storm. With several attacks hitting organizations across many industries, including a record breaking 1.3Tbps attack against an Akamai customer. Akamai has observed a new trend in extortion… Continue reading memcached, now with extortion!
With the recent influx of news reports regarding security incidents, more Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Chief Information Officers (CIOs), and IT professionals are reviewing current security infrastructures, policies, and practices to identify potential weaknesses in their security posture. This… Continue reading Layered Security Without the Layered Complexity
"Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition" – H. Jackson Brown. A friend sent this quote to me after I explained to her my ambivalence about being recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in their Web Application… Continue reading Akamai Is Named A Leader In Gartner’s Magic Quadrant For Web Application Firewalls
"Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition" – H. Jackson Brown. A friend sent this quote to me after I explained to her my ambivalence about being recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in their Web Application… Continue reading Akamai Is Named A Leader In Gartner’s Magic Quadrant For Web Application Firewalls
In the last few posts, I talked about why recursive DNS (rDNS) combined with threat intelligence makes for such a simple-to-deploy security solution that effectively mitigates and prevents advanced, targeted threats. Not to belabor the point, but the recent punycode… Continue reading 20 Years of DNS Data Exfiltration: Why, How, and What’s Next?
Overview Can you imagine anyone buying a car without airbags and without seat belts? I bet you can’t! So why is it that we buy computers without Antivirus software already installed, home routers without a firewall already installed or connected… Continue reading Consuming Cyber-security: The Beginning of a New Era
Written by Avi Aminov and Or Katz Overview Imagine you are standing in the middle of a crowded train station and want to have a private conversation with an old friend. You’ve been waiting for the perfect time to contact… Continue reading Spotlight on Malware DGA Communication Technique
On Friday, May 12, news agencies around the world reported that a new ransomware threat was spreading rapidly. Akamai’s incident response teams and researchers worked quickly to understand this new threat and how to mitigate it. This blog post is… Continue reading WannaCry: What We Know
DNS-based DDoS attacks have gained mindshare among Akamai customers lately, most recently with last year’s Dyn attacks (written about on the Akamai Blog here and here) and this week’s attack against Cedexis. DNS infrastructure is a ripe target for malicious… Continue reading DDoS Attacks against DNS Infrastructure in the News