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Akamai Registers Massive 1.44 Terabit-per-second DDoS Attack
An unnamed webhost was just hit with one of the largest DDoS attacks ever registered by Akamai, one of the world’s biggest web and cloud providers. The attack was directed at a ...
Crafty Web Skimming Domain Spoofs “https”
Earlier today, KrebsOnSecurity alerted the 10th largest food distributor in the United States that one of its Web sites had been hacked and retrofitted with code that steals credit card and login ...
Report: Attacks on Financial Services Targeting APIs
A report published by Akamai Technologies suggests cybercriminals targeting the financial services sector are starting to focus more of their attacks on application programming interfaces (APIs). From December 2017 through November 2019, ...
Akamai: Cyber Attacks Now Being Weaponized
A report published by Akamai at the close of 2019 advises cybersecurity teams to expect to see many more weaponized cyber attacks in the New Year. Larry Cashdollar, an Akamai security researcher, ...
The Rise of “Bulletproof” Residential Networks
Cybercrooks increasingly are anonymizing their malicious traffic by routing it through residential broadband and wireless data connections. Most often, those connections are hacked computers, mobile phones, or home routers. But this is ...
DevOps Chat: SOTI Report With Akamai’s Martin McKeay
Akamai recently released its latest State of the Internet (SOTI) report, focusing on the financial sector. This SOTI edition, titled “Financial Services Attack Economy,” highlights the vast array of cyberattacks targeted at ...
Implementing Zero Trust, One App at a Time
Is zero trust hype or real? Is implementing zero trust a worthwhile endeavor? During a session I attended at Akamai Edge World 2019 in Las Vegas earlier this month, the panel moderator ...
Akamai Extends Security Services to the Enterprise
Akamai today extended the reach of its managed security services beyond websites to include applications running in on-premises IT environments and in the cloud. Lorenz Jakober, director of product marketing for Akamai, ...
Study: Attack on KrebsOnSecurity Cost IoT Device Owners $323K
A monster distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) against KrebsOnSecurity.com in 2016 knocked this site offline for nearly four days. The attack was executed through a network of hacked "Internet of Things" (IoT) devices ...
Akamai Announces New Enhancements to World’s Largest and Most Trusted Cloud Delivery Platform
Strategic platform updates designed to support secure cloud adoption, superior web and application performance and availability, high-quality and scalable video streaming and streamlined application development CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – April 16, 2018 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
