Cloudflare blocks 15M rps HTTPS DDoS attack
2022-04-27
Earlier this month, Cloudflare’s systems automatically detected and mitigated a 15.3 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack — one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks on record...
Two voting days, a debate and a polling rule in France impacts the Internet
2022-04-26
We blogged previously about some trends concerning the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, held on April 10. Here we take a look at the run-off election this Sunday, April 24, that ended up re-electing Emmanuel Macron as President of France...
Building many private virtual networks through Cloudflare Zero Trust
2022-04-26
Starting today, we are thrilled to announce that you can start building many segregated virtual private networks over Cloudflare Zero Trust, beginning with virtualized connectivity for the connectors Cloudflare WARP and Cloudflare Tunnel...
Marcelo Affonso and Rebecca Weekly: why we joined Cloudflare
2022-04-26
Marcelo Affonso (VP of Infrastructure Operations) and Rebecca Weekly (VP of Hardware Systems) recently joined our team. Here they share their journey to Cloudflare, what motivated them to join us, and what they are most excited about...
Email Routing Insights
2022-04-25
Insights and Logs are now available to everyone using Cloudflare Email Routing...
Happy Earth Day: Announcing Green Compute open beta
2022-04-22
Today, we are happy to announce that we are bringing Green Compute to all our developers...
US Tax Day 2022. How leaving it to the last day impacts tax sites
2022-04-20
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April...
Breaking down broadband nutrition labels
2022-04-15
We commend Congress for including broadband nutrition labels in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the FCC for moving quickly to implement the labels...
Cloudflare partners with Kentik to enhance on-demand DDoS protection
2022-04-13
We are excited to announce that as of today, network security teams can procure and use Magic Transit, Cloudflare’s industry-leading DDoS mitigation solution, and Kentik’s network observability as an integrated solution...
DDoS Attack Trends for 2022 Q1
2022-04-12
Welcome to our first DDoS report of 2022, and the ninth in total so far. This report includes new data points and insights both in the application-layer and network-layer sections — as observed across the global Cloudflare network between January and March 2022...
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
2022-04-11
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers....
PIPEFAIL: How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down
2022-04-05
This post tells the story of how a missing shell option called “pipefail” slowed Cloudflare down....
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
2022-04-04
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause...
What Cloudflare is doing to keep the Open Internet flowing into Russia and keep attacks from getting out
2022-04-03
Following Russia’s unjustified and tragic invasion of Ukraine in late February, the world has watched closely as Russian troops attempted to advance across Ukraine, only to be resisted and repelled by the Ukrainian people...
The end of the road for Cloudflare CAPTCHAs
2022-04-01
We decided we’re going to stop using CAPTCHAs. Before we talk about how we did it, and how you can help, let's first start with a simple question. Why in the world is CAPTCHA still used anyway?...
WAF mitigations for Spring4Shell
2022-03-31
Cloudflare Managed Ruleset updates for the recent vulnerabilities affecting the Java Spring framework and related software components...
Future-proofing SaltStack
2022-03-31
This blogpost chronicles the recent CVEs investigation, our findings, and how we are helping secure Salt now and in the Quantum future...
Area 1 Security Announces the Most Spoofed Brand of 2021: WHO is Back Again?
2022-03-31
From Jan. 2021 to Jan. 2022, more than 8.5 million (of 56 million in total) brand phishing emails blocked by Area 1 impersonated the World Health Organization...
Optimizing Magic Firewall’s IP lists
2022-03-29
More and more users are using Magic Firewall’s IP lists to filter network traffic en route to their infrastructure. In response to that growth, we improved how our systems handle large sets of IPs...
CVE-2022-1096: How Cloudflare Zero Trust provides protection from zero day browser vulnerabilities
2022-03-29
CVE-2022-1096 is yet another zero day vulnerability affecting web browsers. Cloudflare zero trust mitigates the risk of zero day attacks in the browser and has been patched...
