Helping Apache Servers stay safe from zero-day path traversal attacks (CVE-2021-41773)
2021-10-08
On September 29th 2021, the Apache Security team was alerted of a path traversal vulnerability being actively exploited (zero-day) against Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.49. Customers running the affected Apache version, should update to 2.5.51 as soon as possible....
In a win for the Internet, federal court rejects copyright infringement claim against Cloudflare
2021-10-07
In Mon Cheri Bridals, LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc., the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Cloudflare’s motion for summary judgment and concluded that no reasonable jury could find Cloudflare liable for the alleged copyright infringement at issue....
Waiting Room: Random Queueing and Custom Web/Mobile Apps
2021-10-07
Today, we are announcing Waiting Room’s general availability and several new features that have user experience in mind — an alternative queueing method and support for custom web/mobile applications!...
Update on recent VoIP attacks: What should I do if I’m attacked?
2021-10-07
Because of the sustained attacks we are observing, we are sharing details on recent attack patterns, what steps they should take before an attack, and what to do after an attack has taken place....
Staging TLS Certificates: Make every deployment a safe deployment
2021-10-06
We are excited to announce that Enterprise customers now have the ability to test custom uploaded certificates in a staging environment before pushing them to production. ...
Measuring Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost
2021-10-05
Contemporary x86 processors implement some variants of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost. We decided to learn about the implications of these two technologies....
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the Internet
2021-10-04
Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1.1. But as we were about to post on our public status page we realized something else more serious was going on....
Announcing Access Temporary Authentication
2021-10-04
Starting today, you can add new policies in Cloudflare Access that grant temporary access to specific users based on approvals for a set of predefined administrators....
The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation
2021-10-03
How do we get so much stuff out so quickly? That we are able to innovate — and innovate so quickly — is no happy accident. In fact, this capability has been very deliberately built into the DNA of Cloudflare....
Two Weeks Later: Finding and Eliminating Long Tail Latencies
2021-10-02
A little over two weeks ago, we shared extensive benchmarking results of edge networks around the world, and made a commitment that we would improve in 10% of networks where we were not #1....
Announcing The Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways Private Beta: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse and Decentralized Finance for Everyone
2021-10-01
Cloudflare announces the Private Beta of their Web3 gateways for Ethereum and IPFS. Unlocking the Metaverse, Web3, and Decentralized Finance for every developer....
Get started Building Web3 Apps with Cloudflare
2021-10-01
Learn how to build Web3 applications with Cloudflare’s new open-source template....
Web3 — A vision for a decentralized web
2021-10-01
In this blog we start to explain Web3 in the context of the web's evolution, and how Cloudflare might help to support it....
May I ask who’s calling, please? A recent rise in VoIP DDoS attacks
2021-10-01
Over the past month, multiple Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers have been targeted by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks from entities claiming to be REvil. ...
Real-Time Communications at Scale
2021-09-30
We’re making it easier to build and scale real-time communications applications around open technologies, starting with WebRTC Components....
Serverless Live Streaming with Cloudflare Stream
2021-09-30
You can now use Cloudflare to do serverless end-to-end live-streaming. Stream Live offers video ingestion, encoding, recording and a player in a single product....
Announcing Cloudflare TV as a Service
2021-09-30
Today we’re excited to announce that we're making the technology we used to build Cloudflare TV available to any other business that wants to run their own 24x7 streaming network....
Increased interest in Spanish media after the La Palma volcanic eruption
2021-09-30
Cloudflare Radar shows how Spanish media outlets had an increase in Internet traffic after the volcano eruption on the island of La Palma. ...
How Cloudflare provides tools to help keep IPFS users safe
2021-09-29
The Cloudflare IPFS module protects users from threats like phishing and ransomware....