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I hate passwords. There, I said it. I dread getting an email from Akamai IT telling me it will soon be time to update my password. I procrastinate until the last possible moment instead of immediately doing what is actually a trivial process. I suspect I'm not alone in my dislike for passwords.

In early May 2021, the President of the United States issued an executive order on cybersecurity, and though it will take some time for executive branch agencies to develop formal rules, the order itself includes a lot of what I consider to be best practice in cybersecurity, including the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and Zero Trust, mentioned by name.

New details in the Indexsinas SMB worm, also dubbed NSABuffMiner.

What is your recollection of May 2017? Emmanuel Macron won the French election. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus gave its final performance after a 146-year run. The U.S. FCC voted to overturn net neutrality rules. And the National Health Service in the United Kingdom was crippled by a massive ransomware attack that ended up costing over $120 million.

Take action on issues highlighted in the report to ensure your AWS cloud defenses are protected in a data breach, minimizing impact and data loss.

Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top (OTT) streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion and exciting content into their lives.

Content delivery networks (CDNs) have been around and have evolved over a long time (in internet years). They all speak HTTP and you can safely rely on them to work with just about anything else that speaks HTTP.

This is a write up of a NorthSec 2021 CTF problem I solved with Allan Wirth (@Allan_Wirth) as part of team SaaS which finished in 3rd. It was an extremely creative problem to solve so I wanted to share it here.

Previously reserved for early adopters and tech-savvy consumers, cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream -- with tech entrepreneurs and prominent financial institutions leading the charge.

When you hear the word "malware", the first thing that might come to your mind is a PC or laptop. You think about some weird advertising pop-ups or unrecognized processes running in the background.

You may have seen the announcements over the past two weeks -- the IETF QUIC RFCs have been published! That leads to a lot of questions, depending on how closely you've followed this space.

The definition of a user has evolved to comprise much more than an employee, making secure access to the right application, for the right user, at the right time difficult and complex.

In this blog, we'll walk through a few different snippet insertion methods and available optimizations.

Akamai experienced an outage for one of its Prolexic DDoS services (Routed 3.0) starting at 4:20 AM UTC. We detected the issue immediately, and impacted customers received an error alert within seconds. The impact was limited to Akamai customers using version 3.0 of the Routed service.

Learn how to take on the growing ransomware threat, and the necessity of network segmentation from VP of Cyber Research, Amit Serper.

Today is Day 2 of Akamai's Platform Update. Yesterday, we talked about the acceleration of modern app development and how we're empowering users to shift more compute and data to the edge.

Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update -- two days of new capabilities and innovations across our edge technology and security product portfolios.

At Akamai, our mission is to make application and API security highly effective and easy. As part of that effort, we are excited to announce the Adaptive Security Engine -- a new core technology powering Akamai's application and API protection offerings, designed to enable a hands-off approach to protecting web applications and APIs with the highest degree of confidence.

Recently, Microsoft announced the discovery of yet another attack being launched by the now infamous Nobelium group, which has been responsible for numerous successful attacks, including the widespread SolarWinds breach in 2020.

Read more about how proper network segmentation can simplify PCI DSS compliance by effectively reducing the number of assets in scope.