Written by Bridget Meuse, Product Marketing Specialist – Corporate Sustainability I’ve recently hit my four-month mark here at Akamai and it’s been a whirlwind, to say the least. Despite having had two previous summer internships at Akamai, stepping in…
Volunteering with Girls Who Code
Volunteering with Girls Who Code has been one of the most enriching and edifying experiences of my time here at Akamai. I was chosen to serve as a mentor to one of the high school students, gave the NOCC tour…
Enhancing Video Streaming Quality for Exoplayer — Part 2: Buffering Strategy to Lower Startup Time and Video On-Demand Rebuffering
The first part of this blog series discussed about the quality of user experience (QoE) metrics and two strategies that heavily influence the QoE: the bitrate selection…
Tech That Makes a Difference: Sustainability
As the Internet grows, so does energy usage. As a result, all large tech organizations have a responsibility to monitor and improve their impact on the environment. At Akamai, we are well aware of the impact we can have, both…
The US nuclear forces’ Dr. Strangelove-era messaging system finally got rid of its floppy disks
The 1970s era Strategic Automated Command and Control System is slowly becoming more modern, and a replacement could be on the way.
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Stop hackers before they hack you!
In order to outsmart a would-be hacker, you need to get into the hacker’s mindset and with this book, thinking like a bad guy has never …
TraXSS – Automated XSS Vulnerability Scanner
Automated Vulnerability Scanner for XSS
Written in Python3
Traxss is an automated framework to scan URLs and webpages for XSS Vulnerabilities. It includes over 575 Payloads to test with and multiple options for robustness of tests.
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Faster JWT Key Rotation in API Gateway
JSON Web Tokens (JWT) use digital signatures to establish the authenticity of the data they contain, as well as authenticating the identity of the signer. A valid signature check ensures that any party can rely on the contents and the…
Data in the dark: Data protection
Hyperconnectivity is on the rise and, as a result, corporations’ capacity to protect their own and their customers’ data becomes more and more limited. Connection takes place over a network, so, as connection increases, that network increases in size
Penta- Open Source All-in-one CLI To Automate Pentesting
Penta (PENTest + Automation tool) is Pentest automation tool using Python3.
Installation
Install requirements
penta requires the following packages.
Python3.7
pipenv
Resolve python package dependency.
$ pipenv install
If you dislike pi…