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.
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.
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.
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.
We're excited to announce the availability of EdgeKV, a distributed key-value store database that enables EdgeWorkers to leverage data stored at the edge when deploying custom code across our serverless computing platform.
Part of Akamai's incident management process for vulnerabilities in third party software involves verifying potential impact in other systems using the same or similar libraries.