It?s no secret that the global pandemic increased opportunities for threat actors and cybercriminals to target financial services. Throughout 2020, scammers used the economic tension caused by COVID-19 ? the promise of financial assistance, the stress …

Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Apache-foundation open-source logging library Log4j. It was published on December 9, 2021, and then all hell broke loose. As Log4j is a common logging library for Java app…

To me, Diversity & Inclusion means a new way of thinking and engaging with society. It seems to be one of the most popular phrases that every person sees on the internet every day. I have been appointed as an ambassador of D&I for Akamai?s Asia-Pacific…

I decided to pursue a career in IT after working as a support engineer for internal employees as part of my very first job. It immediately opened my eyes to something that I found as interesting as I did shocking: Lots of people don?t understand inform…

The Log4Shell vulnerability is here to stay. There is a lot of speculation about the scope and true impact of the vulnerability: While many have labeled it ?severe,? information is limited on how widespread the risk is. In order to shed some light on t…

With a comprehensive security stack, Akamai?s application security solutions defend your entire ecosystem from threats. But before you can reap the benefits that come with application security, you need to create a configuration with Akamai?s APIs. Our…

The series of vulnerabilities recently discovered in Log4j2 has shocked the internet. As part of our continuing research, on December 17, Hideki Okamoto from Akamai found and responsibly reported an additional denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, whi…

Continuing with our research into CVE-2021-44228, Akamai has previously written about what the vulnerability is and given recommendations on how to go beyond patching for extra protection. Across the Akamai network, we see traffic from 1.3 billion uniq…