Google’s Safe Browsing Now Includes Protection Against Deceptive Download Buttons Google’s Safe Browsing API is designed to protect web users by posting a warning page before a user potentially enters an insecure website. The service defends against phishing and other
Skypark CDN, one of the leading pure-play CDNs in Russia released some interesting metrics on DDoS attacks in Russia, compiled for the year of 2015. Two of the most interesting metrics; there are 51 DDoS attacks per day in Russia
Baidu, Google, and Facebook are deeply invested in deep learning via neural networks, or networks of hardware and software that approximate the web of neurons in the human brain. The neural networks are essentially large swaths of simulated neurons and
Security researchers at the Cyber Security Labs at Ben Gurion University in Israel have developed a proof-of-concept malware that can transmit sensitive information between isolated networks and mobile phones using FM radio signals. The researchers demonstrated a vulnerability in “air-gapped”
In 2016, the war between the two juggernauts is likely to significantly escalate, as CloudFlare takes its Edge Security story to the boardrooms of the large enterprises. CloudFlare is a juggernaut, at least in the world of Edge Security (CDN
Cybersecurity threats have conditioned organizations that their information can be compromised at any moment, and they must defend the full depth of their sensitive information and infrastructure from a disturbingly increasing global threat landscape. From observing various cyber attacks in
Digital Shadows is a cybersecurity intelligence startup that provides cyber situational awareness against cyber attacks, using big data analytics and threat intelligence platform that monitors a company’s sensitive information in cloud, mobile and social networking services. Using their Digital Shadows
Incapsula, acquired by Imperva in 2014, is a cloud security and acceleration service. The Incapsula network has grown to 26 PoPs, with more planned. Although Incapsula started around the same time as CloudFlare, their business models are different, as we’ll
Supposedly, BBC was knocked offline during the holidays by a DDoS Attack. Thereafter, Akamai, always the one wanting to play hero, rescued the damsel in distress. It wasn’t a massive volumetric attack, because in order to qualify as massive, it
Valve Corporation finally announced more details regarding the security breach that occurred during Christmas. Steam Database, an independent forum supporting the Steam community previously speculated that Valve pushed out a caching misconfiguration update to its production environment that resulted in
Its been a few days since Akamai announced earnings, and with the dust settled, the question now is why did Akamai wait one week before announcing the acquisition in Bloxx and investment in ClearSky? Maybe in the grand scheme of
You gotta love Akamai, because they’re playing Wall Street like a fiddle and no one sees it. Akamai has been in the Wall Street game for sixteen years now, and they understand the analyst mindset like the back of their
The time has finally arrived where we can officially carve out a new market segment called Edge Security CDN. The Edge Security CDN segment started when Akamai acquired Prolexic back in February 2014, having matured over the last few months,
Here’s the latest CDN Eco-Graph. The exciting news – we’re welcoming three new players to the CDN Ecosystem: 1) Cato Networks 2) HolaCDN and 3) Reblaze. The best part, each player focuses on a different part of the technology stack.
Google Capital invested $25M in Zscaler, a leading cloud security company that secures more than 15M users around the world. Gene Frantz, Partner at Google Capital stated “we’re are big believers in two unstoppable technology trends that Zscaler is riding
