Cloudflare Named a ‘Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality’
2021-01-29
Cloudflare receives a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index....
Starting a new job in the middle of a pandemic
2021-01-29
When 2020 started, it was not in my plans to change jobs and start working at a new company, completely remote, without ever meeting my colleagues in person or visiting the office. However, that is exactly what happened, and I am so glad I did....
Data Privacy Day 2021 - Looking ahead at the always on, always secure, always private Internet
2021-01-28
2020 was a big year for data protection, so what does 2021 have in store? On Data Privacy Day, we talk about the role data localization and encryption technologies play in data protection....
Automating data center expansions with Airflow
2021-01-27
How we automated data center expansions and cut by 90% the amount of time our team spent on tedious operational work....
Count yourself in for a vaccine phish: new phishing campaign exploits concern over COVID-19 vaccine availability
2021-01-27
Area 1 has uncovered a coronavirus vaccine-themed campaign spoofing the CDC. The attack, which originally bypassed Office 365’s email security, uses a number of techniques to bypass normal anti-spoofing and email authentication methods....
How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020
2021-01-25
Although tumultuous and unexpected, 2020 did not come without its silver linings, one being Cloudflare’s remote summer internship program....
Introducing Project Fair Shot: Ensuring COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Sites Can Keep Up With Demand
2021-01-22
Project Fair Shot provides Cloudflare's new Waiting Room service for free for any government, municipality, hospital, pharmacy, or other organization responsible for distributing COVID-19 vaccines....
Cloudflare Waiting Room
2021-01-22
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare Waiting Room! It will be first available to select customers through a new program called Project Fair Shot, with general availability in our Business and Enterprise plans in the near future. ...
Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q4 2020
2021-01-22
DDoS attack trends in the final quarter of 2020 defied norms in many ways. For the first time in 2020, Cloudflare observed an increase in the number of large DDoS attacks. Specifically, the number of attacks over 500Mbps and 50K pps saw a massive uptick. ...
Uganda's January 13, 2021 Internet Shut Down
2021-01-15
Two days ago, through its communications regulator, Uganda's government ordered the "Suspension Of The Operation Of Internet Gateways" hours before the country's general election. This action was confirmed by several users and journalists who got access to the letter sent to Internet providers. ...
KEMTLS: Post-quantum TLS without signatures
2021-01-15
The TLS 1.3 protocol has been around for quite some time, but it will be broken once quantum computers arrive. What can we do? In this blog post, we will examine a technique for achieving full post-quantum security for TLS 1.3 in the face of quantum computers: KEMTLS....
Holistic web protection: industry recognition for a prolific 2020
2021-01-14
Today we’re excited to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named Cloudflare the Innovation Leader in their Frost Radar™: Global Holistic Web Protection Market Report....
Soar: Simulation for Observability, reliAbility, and secuRity
2021-01-14
In this article, we will discuss one of the techniques we use to fight such software complexity: simulations. Simulations are basically system tests that run with synthesized customer traffic and applications....
A Name Resolver for the Distributed Web
2021-01-13
We are proud to announce a new resolver for the Distributed Web, where IPFS content indexed by the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) can be accessed....
Cloudflare Radar's 2020 Year In Review
2021-01-12
Today we are launching a dedicated Year In Review page with interactive maps and charts where you can explore what changed on the Internet in 2020. Year In Review is part of Cloudflare Radar. ...
Untangling Compliance: Working Toward a Global Framework
2021-01-11
As part of Cloudflare’s recent Privacy Week we hosted a series of fireside chats on security, privacy, and compliance. Many of these conversations touched on the intricate legal debate being held in Europe around data sovereignty. Here are some of the highlights....
Meet The Workers Team Over Discord
2021-01-09
The Cloudflare Workers team is excited to announce the opening of our Discord Channel!...
Ransom DDoS attacks target a Fortune Global 500 company
2021-01-07
In late 2020, a major Fortune Global 500 company was targeted by a Ransom DDoS (RDDoS) attack by a group claiming to be the Lazarus Group. Cloudflare quickly onboarded them to the Magic Transit service and protected them against the lingering threat. ...
Internet traffic disruption caused by the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville
2021-01-06
On Christmas Day 2020, an apparent suicide bomb exploded in Nashville, TN. The explosion happened outside an AT&T network building on Second Avenue in Nashville at 1230 UTC....
Using One Cron Parser Everywhere With Rust and Saffron
2020-12-25
Cron parsers are everywhere, each supporting their own extensions on the cron string format, which made consistency between parts of Cron Triggers difficult to achieve. Today we’re showing how we easily solved this problem with Rust without needing to write the same code twice....
