Configuration error reveals sensitive info from immigration, criminal and family cases
Misconfigured Cloud Server Exposes 66,000 Gamers
Users of VIPGames.com at risk of follow-on attacks
How Client-Side Protection & Compliance Detects Real-World Magecart Attacks
In this blog, we will take a look at and break down a recent Magecart attack detected and mitigated by Client-Side Protection & Compliance. The impacted customer operates a large international e-commerce business in which one of its websites was compro…
What happens when your vulnerability is weaponized for botnet proliferation
This post will focus on the weaponization of a few of the exploits only, as Sarit and Ofir documented everything else.
Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform
Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 …
Minecraft Players are Targets Even Off the Network
When we write the SOTI and talk about attacks against gamers, we spend a good deal of time focusing on network-level events, such as DDoS and credential stuffing.
Stacking CDNs for Improved Performance and Security
I recently worked with a client whose large e-commerce site was hosted with a popular cloud-based commerce solution. Its business was growing rapidly into new geographic markets, and it was not satisfied with the embedded content delivery network (eCDN…
Retrospective 2020: DDoS Risk Higher Than Ever
Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai c…
Mr. Double Website Operator Convicted
Jury convicts Texan accused of operating website that sold child sexual abuse material
San Francisco Law Firm Investigating PupBox Data Breach
Investigation launched after payment card info of 30k PupBox customers exposed