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MIT's 2014 STAMP/STPA Workshop and Conference
This is the first of what will be several posts on MIT's 2014 STAMP Conference. Staff from Akamai InfoSec will participate in this event, which makes perfect sense given our close ties and history with MIT.
RSA Preview: How Data Defeated Dogma
Our ongoing series of RSA Conference 2014 previews brings us to a topic we've told you about before: the battle to establish a bug bounty program at Microsoft.
Prolexic Acquisition: More Research to Share
Now that Akamai's acquisition of Prolexic is official, I can answer a question I've gotten repeatedly: How will the addition of Prolexic impact the new Akamai Security site we're launching next week? It's an easy question to answer, but first some background:
Video: The Evolving Threat Landscape
An overview of the evolving threat landscape with Akamai Director of Web Security Solutions Product Marketing, Dan Shugrue. Dan also shares how Akamai's Kona Site Defender service handles the increasing frequency, volume and sophistication of Web attacks.
Kona + Prolexic = Akamai Web Security Solutions
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RSA Conference 2014: Previews from Around the Web
With a week to go before RSA Conference 2014, various tech publications are launching their annual what-to-expect articles. What follows are a few articles that offer some decent analysis.
HQL Statement Tampering
Executive Summary "Hibernate is an object-relational mapping (ORM) library for the Java language, providing a framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a traditional relational database. Hibernate solves object-relational impedance mismatch problems by replacing direct persistence-related database accesses with high-level object handling functions." (Wikipedia) According to a recent Java developer survey, Hibernate was ranked as the 2nd most popular Java framework.
InfoSec Mentors: #BSidesLV Needs You
One of the coolest things about Security B-Sides, in my opinion, is the effort that goes into giving industry newbies a hand up. The BSides Las Vegas Proving Ground Speaker Development Program is a powerful example of that. And the organizers need your help.
NTP Reflection Attacks
Yesterday we saw the news outlets light up with breathless reports of a massive distributed denial of service that was directed at the boutique company, Cloudflare. There was much ado about the volume of the attack peaking at 400 Gbps according to the numbers released by them. But, was this little more than hyperbole? This would not be without precedent.