Following up on yesterday’s item re: Apple’s petition to the Supreme Court, here’s the Ninth Circuit ruling. It starts with a “Summary” that is specifically intended for the convenience of the reader.…
Akamai researchers have uncovered an extensive back-end infrastructure of an ongoing phishing campaign that has routed millions of people to malicious domains.
Meet Tedd Smith, solutions engineer at Akamai. He discusses today’s media-streaming landscape and how he crafts solutions for higher-quality user experiences.
Our new normal has ushered in the advent of hybrid events — a mix of in-person and virtual events. This has made seamless live streaming with active participation of the audience, both live and remote, more important than ever.…
One aspect of resilience on the internet is that things — notably servers and resources — move around. Sometimes moves are legitimate, such as when a popular site evolves from hosting their own website to moving to a cloud provider to using a CDN to…
Microsoft Bing today announced the rollout of IndexNow, a new protocol designed in conjunction with Yandex that can allow “websites to easily notify search engines whenever their website content is created, updated, or deleted.” The goal is to reduce the…
I recently worked with a client whose large e-commerce site was hosted with a popular cloud-based commerce solution. Its business was growing rapidly into new geographic markets, and it was not satisfied with the embedded content delivery network (eCDN)…
On August 17th, 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX. The botnet is named for an anagram for one of the delimiter strings in its command and control protocol.…