Today, shortly after 21:00 UTC, on our internal operations chat there was a scary message from one of our senior support staff: "getting DNS resolution errors on support.cloudflare.com", at the same time as automated monitoring indicated a problem.
This Friday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, along with Marc Rogers, Principal Security Researcher at CloudFlare, I'm speaking about a version of The Grugq's PORTAL, an open source network security device designed to make life easier and safer.
Today there were multiple vulnerabilities released in OpenSSL, a cryptographic library used by CloudFlare (and most sites on the Internet).
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS, RFC 6797) is a web security policy technology designed to help secure HTTPS web servers against downgrade attacks.
This morning, Stephane Chazelas [disclosed](http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/649) a vulnerability in the program bash, the GNU Bourne-Again-Shell.
I started using the Internet when I was young—in the early 1990s, before I was a teenager. I was drawn to security for two main reasons.
