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SMS pumping fraud cost businesses $6.7 billion in 2021. Learn how these sophisticated attacks work, which companies face the highest risk, and the most effective protection strategies.
The proliferation of residential proxy networks has undermined traditional IP-based security, enabling attackers to bypass protection measures while appearing as legitimate users.
How residential proxy networks may have enabled DeepSeek to bypass AI platform protections, leading to Nvidia's historic market value loss
Understand the impact of bot traffic on A/B testing results and learn how to protect your optimization efforts
Bot traffic corrupts A/B testing results, leading to flawed marketing decisions. Learn how to protect your tests and ensure accurate data for strategic planning.
Click fraud drains marketing budgets and corrupts campaign data. Learn how bots and residential proxies impact your ad spend and marketing strategy.
Learn how distributed bot networks using residential IPs are evolving to evade traditional fraud detection
Your anti fraud IP Intelligence service is no longer fit for purpose. Learn about the challenges in detecting residential proxies and why traditional methods don't work.
A comprehensive guide to bot management, differentiating between basic, intermediate, and advanced protection strategies against evolving bot threats.
An in-depth look at the growing threat of credential stuffing attacks on Australian businesses, including recent case studies, defense challenges, and practical recommendations.
An in-depth look at the growing threat of credential stuffing attacks on Australian businesses, including recent case studies, defense challenges, and practical recommendations.
Examine why current security solutions fail to detect and mitigate threats from residential proxies, and the need for comprehensive protection strategies.
Explore the complexities of residential proxy detection and its impact on organisational risk, with a focus on quantifying the threat and reframing security approaches.
Explore strategies to enhance web application security without compromising user experience, focusing on contextual security and adaptive authentication measures.
Explore how credential stuffing attacks and account takeovers affect business reputation and customer trust.
Our 2024 survey reveals Australian businesses are increasingly recognising and addressing account protection challenges, with a focus on combating credential stuffing attacks and the emerging threat of residential proxies.
As cybercriminals employ AI and residential proxies to bypass multi-factor authentication, businesses must adopt a multi-layered security approach to protect against account takeovers.
Double crawling of pages by search engines due to filtering options and query strings can be a massive drain on server resources. Learn how to control it using robots.txt.
An analysis of Peakhour's role in addressing key cloud security categories identified in recent industry analysis, demonstrating its comprehensive approach to modern cloud security challenges.
Learn how breached credential databases and risk profiling provide advanced protection against credential stuffing attacks and enable contextual security measures.
In the age of proxy networks and IP sharing, traditional rate limiting is of limited use. Introducing Advanced Rate Limiting to protect your website and APIs.
Popular Australian fashion website TheIconic recently suffered reputational damage from fraudsters placing orders after an account takeover. Learn how this happens and what you can do to stop it.
Client side attacks on your website can have devastating impact on business credibility. Learn how to protect your clients with these HTTP Headers.
Introducing SVCB and HTTPS records in DNS and their impact on web connectivity.
Understand CVSS by examining the Atlassian CVE-2023-22515 and CVE-2023-22518.
An in-depth exploration of EPSS, its data-driven approach to assessing cybersecurity threats, and how it complements CVSS.
Reviewing the CVSS an EPSS CVE scoring systems in light of the Atlassian Confluence-Aggedon
Elevate your e-commerce with our newly released Magento 2 plugin. Experience enterprise-level caching features accessible to all Peakhour customers.
Explore the complexities of switching CDN providers amid industry consolidation and how Peakhour can assist in the transition
An exploration of Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" feature and a comparison with Apple's iCloud Private Relay.
An in-depth exploration of the JA4+ network fingerprinting method, its applications, and its role in cybersecurity.
An exploration of Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" feature, its promise of enhanced privacy.
A deep dive into the end-of-life of ModSecurity, its impact on Peakhour, and what it means for the future of
While Essential 8 mainly deals with workplace cybersecurity, APRA has published the Information Security Manual with numerous references to internet services. Read on to find out more.
The technicalities of the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability and steps to fortify against DDoS threats.
Scraping competitor websites is a common practice, but is it legal? Read on to find out.
A comprehensive breakdown of the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset flaw and guidance on bolstering defences against potential DDoS attacks.
Google is introducing a new Core Web Vital to replace First Input Delay, read on to learn all about it.
A comprehensive look at OpenBullet, its capabilities, and the implications for cybersecurity in the face of its misuse.
Google Chrome is advancing towards making the web secure by default through HTTPS-First Mode.
Content/Origin mounting allows you to seamlessly bring content together from multiple sources, on to your main website.
Surrogate Keys, or cache tags, are a powerful mechanism for targeted flushing of content from a cache, not all CDNs support them though.
An exploration of the evolution in headless commerce and the corresponding security challenges.
Peakhour's take on the recent Microsoft 365 outages instigated by threat actor Storm-1359.
How can maximising website speed boost your company's revenue, especially during an impending economic recession?
What Apple's announcement of JPEG-XL support means for the web ecosystem.
HTTP Link headers are a relatively unknown but powerful way to improve page load times.
Residential proxy malware, and its implications for traditional cybersecurity measures, emphasising the need for evolving threat detection and mitigation strategies.
"This article delves into residential proxies within the context of the MITRE ATT&CK framework, highlighting the security implications and ethical considerations."
This article explores the world of residential proxies, revealing the challenges and ethical questions they pose in our GeoIP-dependent digital landscape.
Even 'good' bots can end up abusing your site and impacting performance, learn why and how to stop it.
We bid farewell to JPEG-XL after its abrupt deprecation by Google, reinforcing the tech giant's domineering influence over the web and sparking a call for resilient alternatives.
Read what Mr T has to say about our Wordpress Plugin update.
Discover how Full Page Caching can help mitigate layer 7 DoS attacks.
Does TLS extension randomisation assist in hiding Chrome?
What is fingerprinting, and in particular TLS fingerprinting?
Image optimisation saves you bandwidth and designer effort while reduces page load time.
We're excited to announce our Drupal 8/9 caching module, read on for more details.
Prestashop is the latest shopping cart we've made a plugin for, read on for more details.
Discover and block threats through data enrichment using managed IP reputation lists
Origin shield is a CDN must have feature that increases your Cache Hit Rate by consolidating requests from POPs.
Peakhour clients are protected against CVF-2022-26134 Atlassian Confluence RCE
Cache keys allows the segmenting of the Peakhour.IO cache by elements of both the request and response, enabling effective and flexible caching of content.
Rate limiting is a powerful way to control client behaviour and protect your origin. Flexible definition of limits and criteria allow precise targeting of client behaviours to limit.
How can rate limiting protect your web application and the key items to consider when enabling.
Request collapsing - saving your origin by reducing concurrent requests and re-using responses for resources.
Elevate your Opencart 3 store's performance with Peakhour's full page caching plugin. Learn how our features outperform LiteSpeed and Varnish Cache.
CDN-Cache-Control is a proposed new header to augment the venerable Cache-Control. Its aim is to make controlling caching easier as CDNs become ubiquitous.
Cache-Status is a proposed standard header to provide visibility into how caching providers interact and handle a request.
Fastly, a major CDN provider, had a global outage last night which affected some of the world's largest websites and internet services. Why didn't they have a backup plan?
Google AMP has been controversial right from the get go. As part of its 'Page Experience Update' Google is removing its preferential treatment of AMP authored pages.
Even if you have the fastest server in the world, your website might still seem very slow to end users if you have lots of render blocking resources, learn how to deal with them.
Chia is a new blockchain aiming to one up Bitcoin that's taking the crypto world by storm. We decided to jump on the bandwagon.
Learn where Google gets the performance data it uses when ranking your website.
Firefox and Chrome are introducing cache partitioning to improve your privacy, from everyone except Google.
This article covers improving server performance by utilising Dynamic Content Caching, which Full Page Caching is a subset of. Caching Dynamic Content can supercharge your website and dramatically reduce load on a server.
Bad bots can have significant impact to your website while being hard to detect and stop. Here we detail accepted best practise on how to combat the growing threat from bad bots.
After covering testing we're going to get an overview of the common issues that impact website load times and how to check for them.
Are Australian Magento stores prepared for the introduction of Core Web Vitals as a search signal? Read on to find out.
AVIF is a next generation image format with early support in Chrome and Firefox. Peakhour is pleased to offer AVIF as a supported format to our clients.
This installment on website performance introduces Google Lighthouse as a measuring tool. Read on to see how we use it here at Peakhour.
In this installment of our website performance series we're taking a look at webpagetest.org, one of the best tools you can use to analyse real world performance of your website.
Following on from our introduction to Web Vitals we're introducing why you should test your website speed and how best to do it.
Google has introduced a new set of metrics for measuring website performance and ranking websites. Learn about these new measurements, how to use them to improve your customer's experience, and how they will affect your website ranking
Bad bots can cause significant financial damage to organizations in a variety of ways, ranging from overwhelming websites with internet traffic disrupting online operations, and stealing information including web content and ecommerce pricing data.
Introducing Instant Alerts, a new feature for receiving emails or SMS alerts when events happen on your site.
Our Magento 1 plugin is now available in the Magento Store. Discover how it improves website performance and capability.
Experience a significant boost in website speed and performance with Peakhour's Full Page Caching feature, now easily accessible through our Wordpress plugin.
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