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Bot Management Strategy
It was March 13th, 2:30 AM at night and the customer called everyone on the Akamai account team announcing they were being attacked. The attacker was locking inventory on their site for hours causing a significant burst in traffic and preventing customers from making transactions. The Akamai Security Operations Center was involved right away and quickly discovered that a bot was behind this attack. This was a "good bot" just
Q1 2016 SOTI Security Report: Retail Takes Brunt of ...
By Bill Brenner, Senior Tech Writer, Akamai SIRT Retail was hit hard in Q1 2016 by malicious actors who targeted the business sector with web application attacks. That is among the findings in the State of the Internet Security Report for the first quarter of the year.
Why Companies Shouldn't Pay Ransom to Lizard Squad ( ...
By Mike Kun, Manager, Akamai SIRT Extortion attacks have risen since DD4BC kicked things off last year. DD4BC peaked in July and the Armada Collective took over after that, sending out emails threatening attacks unless the victim(s) made ransom payments in bitcoins. The most recent round involved many ransom demand letters, but, as far as many observers can tell, very little follow through. Now we have Lizard Squad, or at
Defend Against Web Application Account Takeovers
Akamai Security Researcher Or Katz was recently published at InfoSecurity talking about how to defend against web application account takeovers with cloud security intelligence.
Community, Convenience, and the Claviger
One of the most common complaints on the Akamai Community is from people who are browsing the web from IP addresses that Akamai has seen performing malicious activity. Depending on the severity and number of these malicious activities, Akamai assigns the IP address a rating that predicts the likelihood that the IP will perform a malicious act in the future. These ratings come from our Client Reputation module, a module
Akamai Inspires Girl Scouts Through Internet Technol ...
Akamai's next "Girls Who Code" summer immersion program is still a couple of months away, but in the meantime I wanted to tell you about our involvement with another fantastic organization inspiring girls to pursue tech careers - the Girl Scouts.
#OpKillingBay Expands Attacks
By Bill Brenner, Akamai SIRT Senior Tech Writer Operation Killing Bay, better known as #OpKillingBay on social media sites, is expanding. Historically, malicious attackers participating in OpKillingBay have targeted Japanese government websites and sites of companies participating in whale and dolphin hunting. These attackers often see themselves as protesters or activists, in addition to hackers and refer to themselves as "hacktivists."
How Has Let's Encrypt Impacted Web Security?
When Let's Encrypt was founded at the end of 2014 it had a lofty goal: promote the use of TLS everywhere by making certificates free and server configuration painless. It was noted that for many web administrators, for both large and small sites, TLS was seen as expensive, difficult to configure, and slow. With that headwind, the return on investment was seen as too low to bother unless you were
HTTP/2 is here; come and get it!
Since showcasing a production demonstration of HTTP/2 at Velocity in 2014 and announcing broad support in 2015, Akamai has been actively working with hundreds of customers to deliver HTTP/2-enabled websites.