The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
The New York Times this morning published a story about the Spamhaus DDoS attack and how CloudFlare helped mitigate it and keep the site online. The ...
The DDoS That Knocked Spamhaus Offline (And How We Mitigated It)
At CloudFlare, we deal with large DDoS attacks every day. Usually, these attacks are directed at large companies or organizations that are reluctant to talk about their details. It's fun, therefore, whenever we have a customer that is willing to let us tell the story of an attack they ...
Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed
This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook ...
When the Bad Guys Name Malware After You, You Know You're Doing Something Right
CloudFlare's I'm Under Attack Mode (IUAM) is elegantly ...
Hackers love the holidays
This article was written by John Graham-Cumming on the CloudFlare team and originally published by VentureBeat. We're republishing it here.
Looking at the latest DDoS attack statistics from CloudFlare's network, it seems that hackers love the holidays.
Zooming in on November and December 2012 it's not hard ...
Ceasefires Don't End Cyberwars
There is a significant conflict in the Middle East. As has been widely reported, along with the physical confrontation between the Israelis and Palestinians, there have been widespread cyber attacks. These cyber attacks have been launched against both sides in this conflict. At CloudFlare we have found ourselves in the ...
Deep Inside a DNS Amplification DDoS Attack
A few weeks ago I wrote about DNS Amplification Attacks. These attacks are some of the largest, as measured by the number of Gigabits per second ...
How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we ...
Seoul, Korea: CloudFlare's 23rd Data Center
We
just turned on our latest data center in Seoul, Korea. It's our 23rd
data center and the last of the 9 new cities as ...
SOPA Could Create New Denial of Service Attack, Powered by Law not Botnets
The United States House of Representatives is considering the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA. Companies including Google, Zynga, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, and Mozilla, along with organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been sharply critical of the law. At CloudFlare, we share these concerns but see another ...