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Akamai Reports Massive Increase in Web Apps, API Attacks
At the RSA Conference 2022 event, Akamai today published a series of reports detailing how Web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) are now favorite targets for highly organized cybercriminal gangs. In ...
Akamai Acquires Guardicore for Microsegmentation Platform
Akamai Technologies today announced it has acquired Guardicore, a provider of a platform that enables IT teams to microsegment application workloads to limit the blast radius of any malware infestation, for approximately ...
KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”
On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from "Meris," the same new "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet behind ...
How Akamai Evolved Into a Security Vendor
In this episode of The View with Vizard, host Mike Vizard talks with Dr. Boaz Gelboard, Akamai chief security officer, about how Akamai, a longtime provider of a CDN, is now evolving ...
Wizards 2020: Celebrating a community of innovators!
Wizards is a global ideation program that allows Akamai employees to submit their innovative ideas and contribute to the business transformation of Akamai. The program has been running for eight years and ...
Stacking CDNs for Improved Performance and Security
I recently worked with a client whose large e-commerce site was hosted with a popular cloud-based commerce solution. Its business was growing rapidly into new geographic markets, and it was not satisfied ...
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, ...