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A new skimmer attack was discovered this week, targeting various online e-commerce sites built with different frameworks. As I write this blog post, the attack is still active and exfiltrating data.

Three years ago, I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering (Mechatronic) from University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. I was to be an engineer in the oil and gas industry - but the universe had a better plan for me. Instead, I stepped into IT, providing Technical Support despite my lack of knowledge. I was struggling! But it was there that I found my passion.

In our previous blogs, first where we explained JavaScript Obfuscation techniques and introduced a detailed overview on how JavaScript is being used to obfuscate page content to make phishing attacks and other web scams as evasive as possible; followed by one where we took a deep dive to examine double JavaScript obfuscation techniques, presenting a tale of an obfuscated scam seen in the wild and showing how the same phishing campaign is using numerous obfuscation techniques in an attempt to remain hidden.

I recently joined the Sales Development APAC team, looking after the Vietnam, Thailand and Hong Kong markets. I'd already had a great impression of Akamai's culture from my interview rounds. But how would the onboarding work? I'd been looking forward to meeting new colleagues in an office environment. I wanted to feel part of a new team; that sense of collaboration you get from personal interaction. Instead, I only got to meet our IT guy outside the office who presented me with my MacBook Pro.

The phishing landscape is constantly evolving. Over the years, it has evolved into a more scalable threat, with an overwhelming amount of campaigns being launched daily. Phishing also changed when criminals started adding more capabilities and features to their toolkits, which make the phishing websites long lived and difficult to detect.

IoT has tremendous possibilities to transform our world but will fall short of expectations if the underlying infrastructure cannot support the rapid exchange of massive amounts of information from billions of simultaneous and intermittent connections. Akamai Edge Cloud is designed to enable the potential of IoT by utilizing the deep knowledge we've gained operating one of the world's largest edge networks.

Akamai Technical Academy is a training program designed for people who have an interest and aptitude for technology but may not come from a traditional technical background. Up until now, we have successfully onboarded over 140 incredible people in three Akamai locations: Cambridge (MA, US), San Jose (Costa Rica) and Krakow (Poland).

Malicious actors never rest and have always worked remotely. That simple realization hit home during recent global events. Specifically, Akamai saw an increase in malware traffic of over 400% between March 9 and May 11, 2020 from corporate devices, most of which were being used outside of a traditional office environment.

While conducting threat research on phishing evasion techniques, Akamai came across threat actors using obfuscation and encryption, making the malicious page harder to detect. The criminals were using JavaScript to pull this off....

As the go-to enterprise distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigation experts, our phones have been "ringing off the hook" since the release of the global extortion DDoS campaign sequel. This latest installment of the cybersecurity saga is bigger, badder, and features a broader cast of criminal characters than seen previously with last year's extortion-related activity.

If the title sounds like a trick question, it really depends on who you ask. Semantically, it seems clear that if you take the "edge" and combine it with "computing" you get edge computing. But if you have been reading headlines, you would be justified in having doubts that the answer is that simple.

In terms of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) landscape, 2020 was almost boring prior to the beginning of August. The excitement from the record peak Gbps and Mpps seen in early summer had worn off, and we weren't seeing...

Edge computing is the next natural paradigm shift in IT, bringing a new wave of decentralization. Over the past decade, IT has embraced two seemingly juxtaposed trends: the consolidation of infrastructure and data in private, public, or hybrid clouds, and the growing distribution and diversity of devices that access them. How can these trends continue to coexist? The answer is at the edge.

Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update! We're presenting an entire week of learning about Akamai's recent product updates. Each day, we'll highlight our latest innovations in each area of the Akamai Intelligent Platform.

Page Integrity Manager is now PCI compliant -- a strong starting point to harden your web applications

With Akamai's web security portfolio, the top focus this October is on the web application firewall (WAF), with exciting new capabilities: API Discovery and Adaptive Security Profiles.

APIs have become a dominant mechanism in the modern web, allowing organizations to create powerful web and mobile experiences, while exposing back-end data and logic to create new and innovative offerings.

Eleven months ago, I joined Akamai as a result of the acquisition of a company I was partner of. The former company was small compared to Akamai, but had operations in several countries in the region, from Argentina to Mexico. In this company, we had been working with Akamai for 17 years, but on November 1, 2019, we officially became a part of the family.

The internet has become one of the most important access points in our daily lives. Unexpected surges in demand can slow web pages and create service outages for unprepared websites. A poor user experience leads to dissatisfied customers, making it more critical than ever to visualize and control online performance.

Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is that AMP will no longer be a requirement for promotion to Top Stories -- fast pages are all you need!