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0 pointsryanlol11y ago0 comments

Which would imply that their backend was compromised, not just DNS.

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The CDN could have simply refreshed its DNS cache couldn't it? That would mean it loaded the files from somewhere else.

Unless there was something horribly wrong with their setup, akamai would have prevented that from happening.

I'm not sure how they are supposed to prevent this. If you have access to the dns, you can change the record for the origin server that the cdn pulls from. Nothing "horribly wrong" with that.

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zkhalique11y ago

The CDN could have simply refreshed its DNS cache couldn't it? That would mean it loaded the files from somewhere else.

ryanlolOP11y ago

Unless there was something horribly wrong with their setup, akamai would have prevented that from happening.

Tiksi11y ago

I'm not sure how they are supposed to prevent this. If you have access to the dns, you can change the record for the origin server that the cdn pulls from. Nothing "horribly wrong" with that.

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