What Is a TCP Three-Way Handshake?
The TCP three-way handshake is one of the critical building blocks of the internet. It facilitates the smooth and consistent flow of information across and among different networks without compromising security.
Author: CySecBot
DDoS Chart Toppers?BPS, PPS and RPS Greatest Hits
New to the scene, monster-sized botnet M?ris is raising some eyebrows with giant requests per second (rps) attacks as shared by Cloudflare (17.2M rps, reported August 19), Yandex (peaking at 21.8M rps on September 5), and KrebsOnSecurity (2M rps on Sep…
Learn How Akamai Enables AI Powered Analytics Tools to Reduce Water Losses
The Accelerator Program, a flagship initiative of Akamai India?s Corporate Social Responsibility Trust, enables early-stage innovations for water conservation. Over the past two years, along with our mentoring partner, the International Center for Clea…
Capoae Malware Ramps Up: Uses Multiple Vulnerabilities and Tactics to Spread
Recently, there has been a plethora of UPX packed crypto-mining malware written in Golang targeting Linux systems and web applications popping up in the news. The malware?s primary tactic is to spread by taking advantage of vulnerable systems and weak …
Kinsing evolves, adds Windows to attack list
The campaign was first seen by the Akamai SIRT on February 16, 2021, and appears to be targeting both Windows and Linux systems. The botnet caught our interest because it has shown to be highly active across a diverse set of geographical regions, inclu…
Akamai?s Flagship Customer Enablement Program, Akamai University, Wins Gold ?Excellence in Learning? Award
The Technical Enablement and Education team, part of Akamai?s Global Services organization, has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for ?Best Customer Training Program,? for Akamai?s flagship customer training and enablement program, Akamai Uni…
Now Live: On-Demand Learning and Hands-On Labs at Learn Akamai
I?m excited to announce our new all-inclusive Learning Hub as the single destination for all product learning resources at Akamai. This new Hub gives users the ability to choose the method of learning that suits them best, whether that?s reading throug…
Kali Linux 2021.3 Release (OpenSSL, Kali-Tools, Kali Live VM Support, Kali NetHunter Smartwatch)
Today we have released the newest version of Kali Linux, 2021.3 (quarter #3), which is now ready for download or updating.
A summary of the changes since the 2021.2 release from June are:
OpenSSL – Wide compatibility by default – Keep reading for what…
Prevention is Better Than Cure: The Ransomware Evolution
Ransomware tactics have continued to evolve over the years, and remain a prominent threat to both SMBs and larger organisations. Particularly during the peak of COVID-19, research by IBM found that ransomware incidents ‘exploded’ in June 2020…
Jest Mocks?Unit Testing for EdgeWorkers
In case you haven?t already been working with EdgeWorkers, it allows you to run JavaScript code across more than 4,200 locations for proximity to users and fast application response times.
With more and more application functionality moving to the edg…