09/18/2020
SYN-cookies help mitigating SYN-floods for TCP, but how can we protect services from similar attacks that use UDP? We designed an algorithm and a library to fill this gap, and it’s open source!...
09/17/2020
Today is exciting for all those who want the Internet to be stronger, more resilient, and have important redundancies: Cloudflare is pleased to announce a partnership with the Internet Archive to bring new functionality to our Always Online service. ...
09/16/2020
On July 3, Cloudflare’s global DDoS protection system, Gatebot, automatically detected and mitigated a UDP-based DDoS attack that peaked at 654 Gbps. The attack was part of a ten-day multi-vector DDoS campaign targeting a Magic Transit customer and was mitigated without any human intervention....
09/15/2020
The goal of Cloudflare operated Secondary DNS is to allow our customers with custom DNS solutions, be it on-premise or some other DNS provider, to be able to take advantage of Cloudflare's DNS performance and more recently, through Secondary Override, our proxying and security capabilities too....
09/14/2020
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how a telemedicine provider used Cloudflare to stay connected when the world went remote....
09/11/2020
The Watermark API lets you add a watermark to a video at the time of uploading. It consists of two new features to the Stream API....
09/10/2020
Cloudflare powers cdnjs, an open-source project that delivers popular JavaScript libraries to over 11% of websites. Today, we are excited to announce its migration to a serverless infrastructure using Cloudflare Workers and its distributed key-value store Workers KV!...
09/09/2020
Area 1 blocks social engineering, COVID-19 phishing emails impersonating Small Business Administration, using Newly Registered Domains, PDF attachments....
09/09/2020
Unimog is the Layer 4 Load Balancer for Cloudflare’s edge data centers. This post explains the problems it solves and how it works....
09/03/2020
Page speed is critical. You need to get content to your audience as quickly as possible on every device. You also need to render ads in a speedy way to maintain a good user experience and make money to support your journalism....
09/01/2020
Starting today, you can make geography-based compliance easy again in Cloudflare Access with just two clicks. You can now build rules that require employees to connect from certain countries. You can also add rules that block team members from connecting from other countries....
08/31/2020
Check out our nineteenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....
08/30/2020
Today CenturyLink/Level(3), a major ISP and Internet bandwidth provider, experienced a significant outage that impacted some of Cloudflare’s customers as well as a significant number of other services and providers across the Internet. ...
08/28/2020
HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers now supports asynchronous handlers, allowing developers to prefetch assets or user-specific content from a remote service....
08/27/2020
Covid-19 phishing attack exploits need for face masks, thermometers to launch Agent Tesla malware (advanced Remote Access Trojan); bypasses gateways, DMARC....
08/27/2020
Argo Tunnel provides remote access to development environments by creating secure outbound-only connections to Cloudflare’s edge network from a resource exposing it to the Internet. That model helps protect servers and resources from being vulnerable to attack by an exposed IP address. ...
08/26/2020
We are excited to announce that we have joined the Global Network Initiative (GNI), one of the world's leading human rights organizations in the information and communications Technology (ICT) sector, as observers....
08/26/2020
A few weeks ago we announced a release candidate for wrangler dev — today, we're excited to take wrangler dev, the world’s first edge-based development environment, to GA with the release of wrangler 1.11....
08/25/2020
You can now write any behaviour on requests heading to your site or even run fully fledged applications directly on the edge. Wrangler is the open-source CLI tool used to manage your Workers and has a big focus on enabling a smooth developer experience. ...
08/24/2020
Cloudflare recently shipped improved upload speeds across our network for clients using HTTP/2. This post describes our journey from troubleshooting an issue to fixing it and delivering faster upload speeds to the global Internet....
08/21/2020
As part of my onboarding as an intern on the Spectrum (a layer 4 reverse proxy) team, I learned that many internal services dogfood Spectrum, as they are exposed to the Internet and benefit from layer 4 DDoS protection....
08/20/2020
Deploy Buttons help you deploy a project to the Workers Platform without even needing to set up a local development environment. Now, it’s as easy as clicking a Deploy Button and three short steps to deploy using our new web-based deploy tool. ...
08/20/2020
Using Cloudflare Access, we can now restrict the ability to reach our admin panel only to team members who authenticate with a hard key. Starting today, we’re making that feature available to all teams....
08/20/2020
Secondary DNS Override is a great option for any users that want to take advantage of the Cloudflare network, without transferring all of their zones to Cloudflare DNS as a primary provider....
08/19/2020
Following user feedback about Workers Docs, we reorganized and reformatted all of our content. The documentation is now intuitive to navigate and the content is now easy and enjoyable to read....
08/17/2020
The creators of two Microsoft phishing campaigns, that Area 1 has dubbed “Summer Bonus”, are attempting to lure unsuspecting employees into divulging their Microsoft credentials....
08/17/2020
At Cloudflare, we believe that expanding access to tools that election officials and political candidates need to combat a range of online threats both serves our mission to help build a better Internet and strengthens our democracy....
08/14/2020
Customer Service. Business. Growth. While these three make up a large portion of what keeps most enterprise companies operating, they are just the beginning at Cloudflare. I am excited to share that I have joined Cloudflare as its Chief Customer Officer. ...
08/07/2020
Today we are announcing Argo Tunnel RDP Bastion mode, a simpler way to protect RDP connections at scale. By functioning as a jump-host, cloudflared can reside on a single node in your network and proxy requests to any internal server, eliminating deployment headaches....
08/05/2020
This quarter, we saw an increasing number of large scale attacks; both in terms of packet rate and bit rate. In fact, 88% of all DDoS attacks in 2020 that peaked above 100 Gbps were launched after shelter-in-place went into effect in March....
08/04/2020
Today we’re excited to announce Cloudflare Network Interconnect (CNI). CNI allows our customers to interconnect branch and HQ locations directly with Cloudflare wherever they are, bringing Cloudflare’s full suite of network functions to their physical network edge....
08/04/2020
Today we’re excited to announce Cloudflare’s Network Interconnection Partner Program, in support of our new CNI product. As ever more enterprises turn to Cloudflare to secure and accelerate their branch and core networks, the ability to connect privately and securely becomes increasingly important....
08/03/2020
For the past twelve weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of working as a Legal Intern at Cloudflare. This blogpost goes over a few key things that set this internship apart from even those in which I’ve been able to connect with people in-person....
08/01/2020
By way of this blog post, Hady Mendez shares her thoughts about where she thinks we go from here and how she believes we can truly embody Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in our workplace....
07/31/2020
Today I’m going to talk about TTFD, or time to first dopamine, and announce a huge improvement to the Workers development experience — wrangler dev....
07/31/2020
Check out our eighteenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....
07/30/2020
Today we’re thrilled to announce general availability of Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) across our Layer 7 products as well as Spectrum and Magic Transit services. ...
07/30/2020
A “cold start” is the time it takes to load and execute a new copy of a serverless function for the first time. It’s a problem that’s both complicated to solve and costly to fix....
07/29/2020
Cloudflare is a security company, and the heart of Workers is, in my view, a security project. Running code written by third parties is always a scary proposition, and the primary concern of the Workers team is to make that safe....
07/28/2020
Today, we’re excited to announce support for Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart. You can build applications on Cloudflare Workers using your favorite language starting today....
