There are many crypto mining malware variants infecting systems on the internet. On Friday, March 4, 2021, I noticed an interesting hit in my honeypot logs. The binary it captured stood out, as it was rather large at 4MB. I immediately thought it wou…
How Akamai Can Help You Fight the Latest Exploitation Attempts Against Microsoft Exchange
On March 2, 2021, the Microsoft Security Response Center alerted its customers to several?critical security?updates to Microsoft Exchange Server, addressing vulnerabilities currently?under attack.
Microsoft Exchange and Verkada Hacks: Isolate Your Apps and APIs from the Internet Cesspool
It’s been an interesting start to March in terms of public security incidents. This month kicked off with multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. And, as if that wasn’t enough, that attack was …
Act Against Geopiracy with Enhanced Proxy Detection
According to the description, the service is a virtual private network (VPN) desktop application and proxy browser extension that helps viewers mask their physical location, circumvent censorship, and restore access to blocked content.
Akamai Offers Free Tier for Client-Side Edge Security
In March 2020, Akamai saw a dramatic 30% rise in internet traffic — equivalent to an entire year of growth. Post-pandemic, we believe there will be a return to normal internet traffic growth, but many things will never be the same.
Why do Spaniards find it ’embarrassing’ to eat the last bite?
You may have noticed that your Spanish friends refer to the last bite of food on a shared plate of tapas as ‘la de la vergüenza’ (the one to be ashamed of or embarrassed about).
EdgeKV: Serverless Storage at the Edge
We are pleased to announce the launch of EdgeKV, our distributed key-value store, into beta! EdgeKV is enabling technology for EdgeWorkers, our serverless computing platform that enables developers to create services using JavaScript and deploy them ac…
Sensor Architecture Can Help Keep Us Up and Running: Part 2
Previously, I introduced the field of sensor systems architecture and posed a real world example scenario of the unnecessary resource costs and hazards that can happen when the deployment of sensors isn’t carefully thought out.
Finding the Best Servers to Answer Queries ? Edge DNS and Anycast
While Unicast defines a single destination endpoint for a given IP, Anycast is an addressing technique in which the same IP is advertised from multiple servers simultaneously.