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Attacks up in Q4, Akamai
The Mirai botnet continued as one of the largest threats in the fourth quarter, a new study from Akamai found.
Director's Cut Videos
RSA 2016: SC Director’s Cut with Akamai VP of Engineering Ohad Parush
Akamai interview Ohad Parush
Security News
DDoS attacks up 180 percent in Q3 2015: Akamai
Akamai's Q3 2015 State of the Internet - Security Report offered up a mixed bag of news indicating a very large increase in distributed denial of service attacks, while noting the length and severity of the incidents were down.
Security News
Akamai warns of increased activity from DDoS extortion group
Since 2014, DD4BC has been threatening to take down corporate networks with distributed denial-of-service attacks if a Bitcoin ransom is not paid.
Security News
SSDP reflection DDoS attacks on the rise, Akamai warns
Attackers are abusing SSDP to carry out reflection and amplification DDoS attacks, according to a PLXsert threat advisory released by Akamai.
Director's Cut Videos
Sponsored video: John Summers, vice president of security business at Akamai Technologies
In this video shot at RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, Eric Green, program director at SC Magazine, chats with Summers about prevalent threats today and the possible solutions enterprises can utilize.
Company News
AppRiver partners with Akamai
AppRiver, provider of email security solutions, has partnered with Akamai Technologies, maker of application performance solutions, to increase the capabilities of its hosted Microsoft Exchange service.
Cybercrime, Gaming, Network Security, Security News
Attackers leveraging WS-Discovery protocol to amplify attacks
A recently discovered distributed denial of service technique that abuses the Web Services Dynamic Discovery specification is being executed in the wild by multiple threat actors to amplify the effects of their attacks, researchers have warned. The technique is a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Amplification technique that involves spoofing requests to the WS-Discovery service. WS-Discovery…
Malware, Security News
Silex bricks 2,000 plus IoT devices, 14 year-old author has bigger plans for botnet
A new malware dubbed Silex has bricked at least 2,000 IoT devices in an ongoing campaign that is expected to intensify in the coming days. In the early hours of June 25, Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar first spotted the malware targeting Unix-based systems with default credentials and trashing the device’s storage, dropping its firewall rules, removing…
