Looking for a thermostat to control your home climate while minimizing energy cost? You should consider a smart thermostat! Smart thermostats conveniently maximize your home’s energy efficiency while empowering you to monitor and control t…
Safeguard Identity Data at the Source
When your customers create an account on your website or application, they are entrusting their valuable information with you in order to establish a relationship. To maintain that relationship, they need to have faith that you will protect their infor…
Akamai Wellness in APJ
Creating the world’s best and most secure digital experience demands the very best industry talent. But as a responsible employer, we also understand how important it is to play our part in looking after those brilliant minds.
Redundant, Secure, and Open Short Domains: A Vision for Multi-Provider Apex Domain Aliases to Enable DNS Diversity
Human nature is to seek simpler and convenient ways to do things. One example is the sometimes onerous task of typing a URL into a web browser’s address bar. Since users prefer short, easy-to-remember URLs, an internet trend is to use short domains for…
A New Skimmer Uses WebSockets and a Fake Credit Card Form to Steal Sensitive Data
A new skimmer attack was discovered this week, targeting various online e-commerce sites built with different frameworks. As I write this blog post, the attack is still active and exfiltrating data.
New Book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 3
Introduction I published a new book!The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 3: Current Events, Law, Wise People, History, and Appendices is the third title in the TaoSecurity Blog series. It’s in the Kindle Store, and if you have an Unlimi…
Discussing the Philippine Air Force’s Heavy Lift Helicopter Project as Russia wins with the Mil Mi-171 Hip
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) has embarked on the acquisition of Heavy Lift Helicopters as part of its 2nd List of Horizon 2 Phase projects. This project aims to provide the PAF with larger helicopters than what it currently has, to fit certain c…
My Path to Akamai
Three years ago, I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering (Mechatronic) from University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. I was to be an engineer in the oil and gas industry – but the universe had a better plan for me. Instead, I stepped …
Philippine Air Force to restart acquisition of Maritime Patrol Aircraft under the Long Range Patrol Aircraft Project
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) is preparing to re-introduce one of its long-forgotten projects, which it now plans to re-implement under Fiscal Year 2021.The PAF’s Long Range Patrol Aircraft (LRPA) Acquisition Project is originally a Horizon 1 phase pr…
Security and the One Percent: A Thought Exercise in Estimation and Consequences
There’s a good chance that if you’re reading this post, you’re the member of an exclusive club. I call it the security one percent, or the security 1% or #securityonepercent on Twitter. This is shorthand for the assortment of people and organizations w…