Akamai Publishes Prolexic Q1 2014 Global DDoS Attack Report Attackers are shifting away from traditional botnet-based distributed denial of service attacks in favor of other techniques to launch larger attacks, Akamai Technologies said in its latest report. In the first quarter of 2014, attackers continued the trend of relying less on botnets and more on […]

Akamai Technologies admitted custom code thought to protect against the Heartbleed vulnerability has a flaw of its own and has forced the company to reissue SSL certificates and keys to its customers. Last week, Akamai Technologies Chief Security Officer Andy Ellis blogged that while the company had been exposed to the vulnerability, its custom memory […]