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New Threat on the Rise – Denial of Inventory Attack

March 8, 2018 Published in: Analytics,eCommerce,Security Author: Luka Labrovic

OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project), a well known online community that produces freely-available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security released their first guide called Automated Threat Handbook in late 2015 which purpose is to show all documented threats related to attacks accomplished by leveraging an automated tool, […]

Fighting Ad Fraud And The Flawed Value Chain

October 25, 2017 Published in: Analytics,Domains,eCommerce,Internet,Mobile,Security Author: Luka Labrovic

We’re living in an age of digital hyper-growth. Billions are being invested in cloud technologies, crowdsourcing platforms are disrupting industries, AI and machine learning are slowly eradicating jobs… The digital sector is growing and has no intentions to stop. The world wide web is the glue that keeps it all together. It’s where most of […]

US Govt. Cybersecurity Contractor Leaks Data, Verizon Warns About Rising Gift Card Frauds and More in This Week’s News

March 21, 2017 Published in: Cloud,eCommerce,Internet,News,Security Author: Luka Labrovic

US Govt. Cybersecurity Contractor Hit in Phishing Scam Last Thursday, March 16, the CEO of Defense Point Security admitted to its employees that their W-2 tax data was leaked after someone from the company got caught in a phishing scam. W-2 scams are usually executed with phishing emails directed at finance and HR employees that […]

How to Block Ad Blockers, Bold Predictions For The CDN Industry And More in This Weeks News

December 19, 2016 Published in: CDN,eCommerce,Internet,News,Security Author: Luka Labrovic

Ad Integrity Solution from Instart Logic Users of the internet are increasingly using ad blockers, and by the end of 2016, ad blockers would have cost publishers $41.4 billion globally in lost ad revenue. Facebook already made the announcement that they’ve started blocking ad blockers and are serving ads even if the user has ad blocker installed. […]

Holiday Traffic Report, HPACK Feature Of HTTP/2 And More in This Weeks News

December 6, 2016 Published in: Analytics,CDN,eCommerce,Internet,News,Security Author: Luka Labrovic

Real-time insights on holiday traffic Fastly, given they provide CDN services to a lot of businesses, has an unique view of real-time aggregated traffic patterns on the web. This past week, they’ve decided to share these insights in a detailed article. Fact of the matter is that 30% of annual retails sales happen between Black Friday […]

Why You Need SSL and Why You Need It Now? (Google Will Love You More)

November 23, 2016 Published in: CDN,Domains,eCommerce,Internet,Security Author: Goran Čandrlić

Google takes web security standards very seriously and are looking to make the Internet a “safe place”. Accordingly, they offered a slight boost in ranking for SSL and HTTPS secured websites. However, things are soon going to change as from 2017 Google announced that their search engine algorithm will begin penalizing sites without SSL certificates. SSL […]

Affiliate Fraud – The Dark Side of Affiliate Marketing

October 17, 2016 Published in: Analytics,Domains,eCommerce,Internet,Mobile,Security Author: Goran Čandrlić

The rise of the Internet has brought new opportunities for businesses, allowing them to reach new markets and audiences as well as specific niches that would remain unreachable otherwise. Affiliate marketing is one such process which substantially empowered online businesses. “Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or […]

More Than 1,800 Flights Cancelled at Delta Airlines, “Off-Path” Linux Attacks And More in This Weeks News

August 22, 2016 Published in: CDN,Cloud,eCommerce,Internet,News,Security,Streaming,Website Speed Author: Luka Labrovic

More than 1800 flights cancelled due to Delta Airlines system outage On early Monday, August 8, Delta Airlines experienced a massive computer outage that forced it to cancel more than 1800 flights and delay many more. The problem began with a critical power control module at the airline’s technology command centre which caused a surge […]

How to Filter Google Analytics Referral Spam and Bot Traffic

July 26, 2016 Published in: Analytics,eCommerce,Internet,Security Author: Goran Čandrlić

Bots have become a hot topic as online security has become a higher priority and, as we mentioned in a previous article, they hold almost half of all the Internet traffic. Automated and increasingly sophisticated bots have been used to accelerate and simplify online processes. Bots are essential for the online infrastructure but can also […]

Digital Opportunities Behind The Great Firewall of China

July 13, 2016 Published in: CDN,eCommerce,Internet,Website Speed Author: Goran Čandrlić

As we all know, People’s Republic of China, the world’s most populous state, has seen a tremendous economic growth in the last two decades. The transition from “emerging market” to “global superpower” has been completed quite some time ago and today China holds a huge portion of the global economic pie. The same has reflected […]