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Popular Mechanics June 2007 Joel Johnson	Hack Attack: Is the Whole Internet at Risk? Some hackers recently tried to take down the entire World Wide Web. You didn't even notice because the Internet is so robust.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	Oregon Man Cops Plea in eBay DDOS Attack A 21-year-old Oregon man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty this week for his role in launching a distributed denial of service attack on eBay in 2003.
InternetNews April 27, 2011	Russia Leads in Internet Attack Traffic New report from Akamai names Russia as the source of 10 percent of global attack traffic, but is it all really coming from Russia?
Information Today December 5, 2013	Internet Security Providers Team Up Akamai, a cloud-based security platform, announced its acquisition of Prolexic Technologies, a provider of cloud-based security solutions for distributed denial of service attacks.
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb	When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.
PC Magazine August 7, 2009 Lance Ulanoff	Twitter's Down and It's All Your Fault The micro-blogging service's difficulties are troubling. Why it's suffering through a DDoS attack is even more upsetting.
InternetNews January 5, 2005 Jim Wagner	Akamai CEO To Step Down After six years Conrades is resigning from his CEO job but will retain the top seat on the board of directors.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	GitHub Is Still Under The Biggest DDoS Attack In Its History In the biggest DDoS attack in its history, GitHub is facing an onslaught of malicious inbound traffic from what appear to be China-based sources.
InternetNews August 18, 2005 Jim Wagner	Akamai's News Junkie Index The company's new service provides insight into the world's online news-reading habits.
InternetNews July 14, 2009	Inside Korea's Cyber Attack What really happened in South Korea? Attackers used the country's high-speed network against itself.
InternetNews June 16, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Akamai Outage Raises DNS Questions DNS expert says Akamai's outage that hit some big sites briefly is not a global DNS prolem, but raises questions.
InternetNews February 7, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Internet 'Didn't Crumble' Under DNS Attacks Internet users barely felt a ripple yesterday when hackers launched a concerted attack on several key Domain Name System servers.
The Motley Fool June 13, 2011 Arunava De	Are Hackers the Next Threat to Your Portfolio? Before you respond to a malicious attack on one of your investments in your portfolios, measure the impact that such an attack can have on the company.
InternetNews January 30, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Akamai, Equinix Team on Network Expansion The partnership will ramp up the power of Akamai's content delivery network platform.
InternetNews August 11, 2009	Twitter Hit by Another Denial-of-Service Attack Twitter junkies get denied their fix for a few hours when the microblogging service gets hit with another remote attack.
Bank Technology News July 2008 Rebecca Sausner	Could the U.S. Be the Next Estonia? Gadi Evron, former Israeli Government Internet Security Operations Manager, went to Estonia during the crippling DDOS attacks last May. Here he talks about whether the U.S. is vulnerable to such an attack, and the role banks and home computers play in protecting critical infrastructure.
InternetNews June 15, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Four Bot Herders Get Put Out To Pasture Your spam filters have ever so slightly less work to do today, thanks to several arrests of bot herders by the FBI.
Science News April 25, 2009	Science Past From The Issue Of April 25, 1959 There appears to be a strong link between the behavior of a man with regard to his business and social activities and his chances of being a victim of a heart attack.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2004 Mark Mahorney	Akamai Hangs Five The distributed computing company has grown revenue for five straight quarters.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato	Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost.
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin	The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers.
InternetNews November 20, 2006 David Needle	Akamai Snares Nine Systems Internet content acceleration firm Akamai is buying Nine Systems, a provider of rich media management tools, in a deal valued at about $169 million.
The Motley Fool December 30, 2009 Anders Bylund	The Best Stocks for 2010: Akamai Growth, value, or security -- pick any three.
BusinessWeek September 25, 2006 William C. Symonds	Traffic Cops Of The Net Somebody has to keep all those billions of bytes moving. Chances are, it's Akamai.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2007 Tim Beyers	Another Sigh for Akamai A great quarter leads to a nonsensical sell-off. Why did investors sell Akamai after revenues rose 52%?
The Motley Fool October 26, 2007 Mac Greer	Fool Video: Missing Out on Akamai? Investors, is it time to buy Akamai?
IEEE Spectrum March 2006	Million Dollar Baby A student in the UK foils Internet extortionists who launched a DDoS attack on his Million Dollar Home Page.
InternetNews August 6, 2009	Twitter, Facebook Hit in Denial-of-Service Attacks Social media phenoms Twitter and Facebook this morning suffered bouts of downtime - with each blaming a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack for its woes.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2004 Tim Beyers	Akamai Curls Through Debt Wave Impressing investors, the firm retires nearly $100 million in debt.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Anders Bylund	Foolish Forecast: Akamai Burning Bright In advance of Akamai's earnings, let's take a look at how Akamai compares to some of its peers and competitors.
The Motley Fool July 11, 2007 Mac Greer	Fool Video: Will Limelight Leave Akamai in the Dark? An interview on Akamai, Limelight, and investing in broadband.
The Motley Fool February 5, 2009 Anders Bylund	Akamai Disappoints Deep-Discount Trawlers It's still a good deal because Akamai is a great company. Would've been nice to pick up some super-cheap shares, though.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2006 Tom Taulli	Dueling Fools: Akamai Bull Akamai is turning into a very profitable business as growth surges. This is not a stock for a conservative portfolio.
InternetNews December 14, 2009	Akamai Debuts Cloud-Based Web App Firewall Akamai extends security offering into the application layer to guard against SQL injections, cross-site attacks and other threats.
PC Magazine June 20, 2007 Larry Seltzer	Beware Windows Hactivation Threat A new Trojan horse masquerading as a Windows security check is wreaking havoc on PCs. Find out how you can keep your system safe.
InternetNews July 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	U.S., South Korea Under Cyber Attack Governments and security firms are working together to fight an attack which, though massive, contains very primitive components.
The Motley Fool November 9, 2007 Tim Beyers	Quit Calling Akamai Expensive Cash-rich Akamai has long-term growth potential and strong projected earnings, making its current valuation quite attractive. Investors, take note.
InternetNews January 28, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Weak Passwords Leave Win MySQL Vulnerable Got a weak-password habit? If you're not running the latest anti-virus scanners along with MySQL, you could have a bot problem.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2009 Tim Beyers	Legal Setback Steals Akamai's Limelight A district court judge in Massachusetts overturned the Web content delivery specialist's 2008 patent infringement victory over Limelight Networks, voiding a $45 million jury award for damages. Akamai, not surprisingly, has already promised to appeal.
BusinessWeek August 12, 2010 Douglas MacMillan	As Streaming Prices Drop, a Bet on High-Def While demand for streaming video spikes, Akamai faces challenges as competition forces down prices. HD video may help its margins.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Tim Beyers	Why Akamai Doubled Shares of Akamai surged last week after the company's reported results crushed Street estimates.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2005 Tim Beyers	Akamai: Still Surfing Akamai, which brings content and applications delivered over the Web closer to users is the dominant player in a market that's estimated to be growing by at least 40%. Investors, take note.
InternetNews January 27, 2011	British Cops Snag 5 Pro-Wikileaks Hackers Scotland Yard authorities announce arrest of five members of "Anonymous" hacking ring charged with marshaling DDoS attacks against firms that cut off payments service to Wikileaks.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2011 Dan Radovsky	Another Competitor Consumed Akamai knocks out another threat to its content delivery dominance.
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Peter Burrows	Empire-Building at Akamai Oft-rumored acquisition target Akamai says it plans to go it alone
InternetNews August 7, 2009	Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack.
IEEE Spectrum February 2011 David Schneider	Network Defense Gone Wrong One common distributed denial-of-service defense could in fact make a Web site more vulnerable
The Motley Fool May 26, 2009 Tim Beyers	Why Amazon Isn't Safe Amazon vs. Akamai: Investors have bid Amazon's shares to the moon thus far in 2009. Akamai has attracted far fewer believers. In other words, Akamai is still cheap. Amazon isn't.
The Motley Fool October 6, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Who Will Buy Akamai? Akamai may be too cheap to not be acquired.