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New Year, New Digital You: Consumer Security Findings from McAfee’s Latest Report  2020 was a year unlike any other. We transitioned from...

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This post will focus on the weaponization of a few of the exploits only, as Sarit and Ofir documented everything else.

When we write the SOTI and talk about attacks against gamers, we spend a good deal of time focusing on network-level events, such as DDoS and credential stuffing.

In this blog, we will take a look at and break down a recent Magecart attack detected and mitigated by Client-Side Protection & Compliance. The impacted customer operates a large international e-commerce business in which one of its websites was compromised with a malicious script.

Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai customers attacked than any year on record -- and we've been successfully fighting DDoS attacks since 2003! We also saw a big increase in attacks targeting verticals that haven't seen as much activity of late, with 7 of 11 of the industries we track seeing peak attack counts in 2020.

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) that was bundled with the cloud solution. We demonstrated that stacking CDNs -- adding Akamai's Ion solution on top of the eCDN -- could significantly improve performance as well as provide the client with much greater control over its delivery configuration

Over the past 20 years, we've seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 and were able to serve peaks of almost 200 Tbps. In short, just like the internet, Akamai has undergone quite the evolution. But as we've grown, so have our environmental impacts. In fact, the internet as a whole is responsible for more than 2% of global emissions, having the same impact as the airline industry. Our online streaming, learning, working, shopping, and playing habits have all started to add up.

Last year proved to be a year like no other. We faced unforeseen challenges, including adjusting to a new way of working, collaborating, and conducting business. It is an honor for me to announce the Akamai Partners of the Year for 2020 who went above and beyond in this tumultuous year. These awards recognize Akamai Partner Program (APP) partners that consistently delivered significant sales successes, innovative solution partnerships, and unequaled service levels as they adapted to the new norm of digital transformation.

If I had a dollar for every time I heard “unprecedented” in 2020, I could fund a clean energy project myself. And while we're tired of hearing this term, it's true amid the pandemic, U.S. presidential election, social justice movements, finalization of Brexit, and many other new and life-changing events that took place this past year.

机器学习这件事目前业内的共识是，写PPT的时候一定要写上。大家也一定要纷纷称赞这个事情的高妙之处，给我们带来了巨大的价值。你要是真问具体哪几个场景，解决了哪几个问题，误报漏报是啥情况，你投入了多少人力进行运营，就开始语焉不详

机器学习这件事目前业内的共识是，写PPT的时候一定要写上。大家也一定要纷纷称赞这个事情的高妙之处，给我们带来了巨大的价值。你要是真问具体哪几个场景，解决了哪几个问题，误报漏报是啥情况，你投入了多少人力进行运营，就开始语焉不详

机器学习这件事目前业内的共识是，写PPT的时候一定要写上。大家也一定要纷纷称赞这个事情的高妙之处，给我们带来了巨大的价值。你要是真问具体哪几个场景，解决了哪几个问题，误报漏报是啥情况，你投入了多少人力进行运营，就开始语焉不详

Survivorship bias is an interesting thing that we can observe nearly daily. It is the success stories of exponentially growing startups, the motivational speaker who shares their insights on how to be successful and so forth.

What is it exactly?

What is survivorship bias?

Wikipedia defines it as “…the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility.”

FireEye tools show attackers aren’t worried about your defenses.

FireEye tools show attackers aren’t worried about your defenses.