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IBM, Red Hat and others want inclusive language in software

Paul Hill — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:12:01 +0000

IBM and Red Hat are among firms pushing for more inclusion in the software industry. The Inclusive Naming Initiative will look at terms like blacklist and whitelist and suggest alternatives. Read more...

Akamai's State of the Internet finds DDoS 'mega attacks' are increasing

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 10:38:01 +0000

The latest report from the content distribution company shows that the number and overall scope of distributed denial of service attacks has gone up over the last year, even if that growth has slowed. Read more...

Canadian telco authority mandates broadband internet equality for rural areas

Boyd Chan — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 07:32:01 +0000

In a bid to improve average broadband speeds across the country, the CRTC has now declared high-speed internet as a basic telecommunications service and set new speed targets to be achieved by 2021. Read more...

Report shows DDoS attacks have increased by 71% in a year, hitting new records

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:42:01 +0000

The latest "State of the Internet" report from Akamai shows the growth in number and scope of DDoS attacks around the world. In just three months, there were 19 attacks with over 100Gbps of data. Read more...

Attackers shut down 'Krebs on Security' site with over 620 gigabit per second of traffic

Christopher White — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 04:28:01 +0000

Unknown attackers launched a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Krebs on Security site, hitting it with over 620Gbps over a sustained period. Akamai shut the site down. Read more...

Let's Encrypt leaves beta, gains new sponsors

Paul Hill — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:06:01 +0000

Let's Encrypt has left its public beta phase, signalling that it's stable and ready for production use. The project also gained a new Gold sponsor, and several Silver and Platinum sponsor renewals. Read more...

Average broadband speeds in US now at 6.7 Mbps

John Callaham — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:02:34 +0000

A new report by Akamai claims that the average broadband Internet speeds in the United State are now at 6.7 Mbps, an increase of 29 percent compared to the same time period a year ago. Read more...

Akamai News Usage Index Released

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:30:00 +0000

In hopes of raising general awareness of its role as a handler of much of the traffic that makes the World Wide Web possible, Akamai Technologies has created a news usage index that shows when... Read more...

Akamai says attack hyped by media

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:14:44 +0000

Akamai Technologies Inc. acknowledged Wednesday that a "sophisticated, large-scale" distributed denial-of-service attack occurred that targeted several of the distributed computing service provider's customers. However, Akamai says the impact of the attack on specific... Read more...

Akamai DNS issues

Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:48:23 +0000

Akamai, the world's biggest content delivery service on the web, appears to be having some DNS issues, which are affecting a variety of sites. Akamai uses its vast network of servers across the globe to... Read more...