Hello, and welcome to our very first Developer Community update of 2022. In this new monthly series, we?ll share highlights of what is happening across the Akamai Developer Community. Since this is the first blog we?re posting, we will also catch up on news from October 2021 through today.
Managing online privacy is a balancing act for both users and security professionals. We can do better than simply following privacy regulations such as the GDPR and CPRA.
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a widely used protocol with a decade-long history of flawed implementations across a wide range of consumer devices. In this paper, we will cover how these aws are still present on devices, how these vulnerabilities are actively being abused, and how a feature/vulnerability set that seems to be mostly forgotten could lead to continued problems in the future with DDoS, account takeover, and malware distribution.