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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaigns are prevalent and legitimate ways to promote web applications in order to get a better visibility and more traffic to your web application. But what happens when an SEO campaign crosses the line into the dark side and becomes malicious?

Recently the Akamai Threat Research Team discovered a highly sophisticated SEO attack campaign that was promoting the search results rating for a web application that allows users to share their cheating and infidelity stories.

Akamai famously lost the first competition it entered, the MIT 50k, before securing funding and becoming a wildly successful start up and one of the largest IPOs in history.  Today Akamai is a 2B public company that prides itself on fighting the odds in order to challenge the status quo and provide business value to customers.

It's no secret that digital video entertainment is in the midst of a massive transformation that includes the way content is packaged, distributed and consumed. The days of consumers demanding large cable TV packages and renting feverishly from local video stores are a distant past. Today, electronic consumer media spend has already surpassed physical, the words "skinny bundle" have crept into our vocabulary and those of us in the US are now more likely to belong to a broadband enabled household that subscribes to an OTT video service than not. Streaming services that offer ubiquitous access to quality premium video content at an affordable price are currently all the rage. As new and existing services jockey for position to secure consumer mindshare, it's apparent OTT as whole will continue to be a critical growth area as recent data predicts the OTT video market to grow at a CAGR of 18.40% from 2014-2019.

As a New Englander and avid Patriots fan, I have been obsessed with watching everything #FreeBrady related.  I can't get enough.  Short of reading the entire 243-page Wells report - Snooze - I want to watch everything that is going on with deflategate in order to support my favorite QB against all the haters out there.  

The Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report (SOTI Security) is due out in the next couple of weeks, and today we continue previewing various sections.

Yesterday we told you about security risks that come into play when third-party plug-ins are used with Wordpress. Today we look at attack vectors the bad guys favored in Q2.

The Q2 2015 State of the Internet - Security Report (SOTI Security) is due out in the next couple of weeks, and today we begin previewing various sections. Let's begin with the potential security risks that come into play when third-party plug-ins are used with Wordpress.

WordPress is the world's most popular website and blogging platform. Its ever-growing popularity makes it an attractive target for attackers who aim to exploit hundreds of known vulnerabilities to build botnets, spread malware and launch DDoS campaigns.

This month we'll release the Q2 2015 State of the Internet Security Report. Tomorrow, we'll begin previewing sections of that report in this blog.

But before we begin, a look back at the previous quarter's report is in order. Such a review will better position readers to digest the new report and do some comparing and contrasting. Every report highlights a new trend, but we also see things that don't change much from one quarter to the next. The challenge is in finding activity that bucks normal trends.

Enterprise public cloud adoption is becoming a norm around the world. Gartner expects public services cloud to hit $240 billion by 2017. They also suggest that the worldwide software as a service (SaaS) market will grow at 18.1% annually and the market will hit $46.35 billion by 2017 [1]. In addition to traditional dev-ops applications, business critical functions, such as CRM and ERP, are moving onto public cloud infrastructure. The goal is to take advantage of the on-demand scalability, flexibility and cost savings associated with cloud computing.

Last night I watched an On Demand episode of The American Experience titled Blackout, which recounted the 1977 power failure in New York City and its lasting impact on city due to widespread looting and destruction. With the power completely out, the operators at Con Ed got to work restoring power using a manual that was last updated after another massive blackout - in 1965.