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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!

Akamai's security operation has warned that it has detected the use of the Shellshock security flaw to co-opt systems into botnets that are then used for DDoS attacks.

Akamai's Prolexic security operation has warned that home and office devices such as routers and media servers are being co-opted into distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

Akamai's Prolexic security operation says Linux malware has been implicated in DDoS attacks.

Global cloud services security vendor Akamai Technologies has completed its acquisition of Prolexic, finalising an agreement to acquire all the outstanding equity in the security company.

Global cloud services and Web security vendor, Akamai Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire fellow cloud security provider, Prolexic, in a move designed to extend its web optmisation and security offerings by adding cloud-based security solutions for protecting data centres and enterprise applications.