MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

by | Jan 27, 2025 | A Little Sunshine, akam.ne, akam.net, Akamai, awsdns-06.ne, az.mastercard.com, azure, Bugcrowd, Cloudflare, Google, How to Break Into Security, mastercard, Philippe Caturegli, Seralys

The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five...

Clearing the Path to Microsegmentation – A strategy guide for implementing microsegmentation in hybrid clouds

by | Nov 1, 2023 | 0 - CT - Cybersecurity Architecture - Cloud Security, 0 - CT - Cybersecurity Vendors - Akamai, Akamai, CISO2CISO Notepad Series

The migration of vast amounts of data and data processing to the cloud — or more precisely, to multiple clouds — is arguably the biggest change in enterprise computing in the past decade. More organizations are moving to public clouds, and typically, to public–private...

Network Segmentation and Microsegmentation in Moderm Enterprise Environments by Akamai

by | Sep 11, 2023 | Akamai, CISO2CISO Notepad Series, Cybersecurity SOC Operations, microsegmentation, Network Cybersecurity, SOC, SOC Operations

OverviewThe idea of segmentation for security is nothing new. Perimeter firewalls, along with VLANs and ACLs, are what most companies have traditionally used to segment and protect their IT infrastructure. However, times are changing. The increase in containerization,...

Akamai Report: LockBit, Cl0P Expand Ransomware Efforts – Source: www.techrepublic.com

by | Aug 23, 2023 | Akamai, black hat, black hat 2023, Cyber Security News, cybersecurity, Ransomware, rss-feed-post-generator-echo, security, Security on TechRepublic, Security TechRepublic

Source: www.techrepublic.com – Author: Karl Greenberg Image: Adobe Stock/Jimon Akamai’s ransomware report released at Black Hat 2023 revealed that exploitation of zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities has led to a 143% increase in total ransomware victims with data...