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CDN provider Akamai Technologies has appointed Chris Gibbs to the new role of ANZ managing director and regional vice president.

Akamai launches Learn Akamai, a free, on-demand learning platform designed to help customers achieve the full value of Akamai solutions.

COMPANY NEWS:  Asus has appointed Archetype as its creative agency in Australia. Archetype will work with ASUA on local creative camaigns with a focus on brand awareness and category creation for upcoming projects.

GUEST OPINION: Mike Hicks, the Principal Solutions Analyst at Cisco ThousandEyes, has cast his eyes over Akamai's Prolexic Routed outage last week to analyse what happened, which as Akamai noted, wasn't due to a cyber attack but an inadvertently exceeded routing table value. How did this happen, who was hardest hit, and how can downtime be mitigated? Please read on!

GUEST OPINION: Mike Hicks, the Principal Solutions Analyst at Cisco ThousandEyes, has cast his eyes over Akamai's Prolexic Routed outage last week to analyse what happened, which as Akamai noted, wasn't due to a cyber attack but an inadvertently exceeded routing table value. How did this happen, who was hardest hit, and how can downtime be mitigated? Please read on!

Last week it was CDN network Fast.ly that had an outage causing many global websites to temporarily go down, and yesterday it was Akamai's CDN service with a "routing error" taking many Aussie sites temporarily offline.

Australian media firm Nine Entertainment is continuing to stay mum as far as public statements on the network attack on its Sydney offices go. It is more or less certain now that Windows ransomware known as MedusaLocker was used in the attack.

The open-source OpenSSL project has released an updated version of its software, 1.1.1k, to fix two vulnerabilities, the severity of both of which has been described as "high".

Security vendor Imperva has appointed former Akamai executive Micheal McCollough as Global Vice President of Strategic Growth.

Global content delivery network Akamai has released software for running vaccination registration websites, with Vaccine Edge claimed to provide the needed delivery, security and waiting room logic.

MSP software provider Datto has made two regional sales appointments.

Global content delivery network Akamai has appointed a new managing director for its operations in the Asia-Pacific region and Japan.

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand CEO Mike Foster is departing the company after 10 years, with 30-year ICT industry veteran and former Akamai Asia Pacific chief Graeme Beardsell to take over the role.

Content delivery network Akamai claims media companies are a growing target for credential stuffing attacks during which cyber criminals use automated tools to use stolen login information to gain access to accounts.

Content delivery network Akamai says it has mitigated the largest packet per second distributed denial of service attack recorded on its platform, with the attack generating 809 million packets per second and targeting a large European bank.

Global content delivery network Akamai has launched Page Integrity Manager, an edge service that can be embedded into Web pages to protect against JavaScript threats such as Web skimming, formjacking and Magecart attacks.

Content delivery network Akamai has been working with game publishers during the COVID-19 lockdown to manage downloads of patches issued by the latter, files which often run to tens of gigabytes, in order to ensure that the load on the Internet is kept to the minimum, officials from the company say.

Global content delivery network Akamai has achieved a peak speed of 106Tbps on its network, the first time that the peak volume of data has exceeded 100Tbps.

The NBN Co's latest attempt to put lipstick on a pig — the animal in this case being the network it is building and the make-up in question being speed — goes one step further than the "alternative facts" which its former chief executive, Bill Morrow, used to dish out.

Global cloud security and content delivery network provider Akamai will set up a "scrubbing centre" in Melbourne later this year, to handle the increasing load of customers and also serve as a back-up for the existing centre in Sydney.