While homeowners consider wireless cameras as a way to protect their homes and loved ones, one of the many ironies is that these cameras can be less secure and used to commit crimes such as invasion of privacy and even assist in burglaries! Most survei…
In Conversation: Successful Women
Success is a tricky word to define. It means something different to everyone and can only be measured by an individual themselves. Often, success is seen as being about what an individual achieves, rather than about who they grow to…
Fake Cozy Bear Group Making DDoS Extortion Demands
A group calling themselves “Cozy Bear” has been emailing various companies with an extortion letter, demanding payment and threatening targeted DDoS attacks if their demands are not met….
XRay – Using For Recon Mapping And OSINT Suite
XRay is a software for recon, mapping and OSINT gathering from public networks.
XRay for network OSINT gathering, its goal is to make some of the initial tasks of information gathering and network mapping automatic.
How Does it Work?
XRay is a ve…
Phishing Detection via Analytic Networks
As mentioned in previous Akamai blogs, phishing is an ecosystem of mostly framework developers and buyers who purchase kits to harvest credentials and other sensitive information. Like many framework developers, those focusing on phishing kits want to …
Defensive Security Podcast Episode 239
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/92484/data-breach/imperva-data-breach-2.html
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/the-count-of-managed-service-providers-getting-hit-with-ransomware-mounts/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/city-of-jo…
My First Job?Being Inspired and Having an Impact
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…