Black Hat Presentation – Web Cache Entanglement
Overview Akamai is aware of the 'Web Cache Entanglement: Novel Pathways to Poisoning' presentation at BlackHat on August 5, 2020. Two security vulnerabilities related to our content delivery networks' caching functionality were presented as part of this research. Akamai would ... Read More
A Look Back At The DDoS Trends of 2018
As mentioned in the 2018 Year in Review State of the Internet / Security report, trends in DDoS are remarkably stable. The size of the largest attacks have grown by approximately 6% on an annual basis, with occasional outliers like ... Read More
Defending Credentials From Automated Attack Tools
By Danny Wasserman The folks on the Akamai Professional Services team are the people who help implement, configure, and tune the cloud security products that protect our customers' web applications from the daily onslaught of bots blasting login attempts against ... Read More
What You Need To Know – Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security: Web Attack Report
It's that time of year - the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security: Web Attack report is now live. This new naming schema is just one of the many changes you'll notice if you're a returning reader ... Read More
Platypuses and Policies: Akamai’s Approach to the GDPR and Information Security
Written by Meyer Potashman On May 25, 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. In preparation, Akamai, like every other company that does business with or interacts in any way with individuals in the EU, needed ... Read More