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October 11, 2016 12:59 PM
Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras
Over the last few weeks we've seen DDoS attacks hitting our systems that show that attackers have switched to new, large methods of bringing down web applications....
September 30, 2016 7:56 PM
Rate Limiting: Live Demo
Cloudflare helps customers control their own traffic at the edge. One of two products that we introduced to empower customers to do so is Cloudflare Rate Limiting....
September 29, 2016 4:47 PM
Cloudflare Traffic Manager: The Details
Cloudflare's investment into building a large global network protects our customers from DDoS attacks, secures them with our Web Application Firewall and Universal SSL, as well as improving performance through our CDN and the many network-level optimizations we're constantly iter...
August 25, 2016 2:18 PM
How the Consumer Product Safety Commission is (Inadvertently) Behind the Internet’s Largest DDoS Attacks
The mission of the United State's Government's Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is to protect consumers from injury by products. ...
April 29, 2016 11:21 PM
Lizard Squad Ransom Threats: New Name, Same Faux Armada Collective M.O.
CloudFlare recently wrote about the group of cyber criminals claiming to be be the "Armada Collective." In that article, we stressed that this group had not followed through on any of the ransom threats they had made. ...
April 25, 2016 12:39 PM
Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective
Beginning in March 2016, we began hearing reports of a gang of cybercriminals once again calling themselves the Armada Collective. The calling card of the gang was an extortion email sent to a wide variety of online businesses threatening to launch DDoS attacks if they weren't pa...
April 13, 2016 12:39 PM
What happened next: the deprecation of ANY
Almost a year ago, we announced that we were going to stop answering DNS ANY queries. We were prompted by a number of factors: The lack of legitimate ANY use. The abundance of malicious ANY use. The constant use of ANY queries in large DNS amplification DDoS attacks....
March 04, 2016 6:02 PM
A Deep Dive Into DNS Packet Sizes: Why Smaller Packet Sizes Keep The Internet Safe
One way that attackers DDoS websites is by repeatedly doing DNS lookups that have small queries, but large answers. The attackers spoof their IP address so that the DNS answers are sent to the server they are attacking, this is called a reflection attack....
March 03, 2016 2:32 AM
400Gbps: Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks
Over the last month, we’ve been watching some of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever seen unfold. As CloudFlare has grown we've brought on line systems capable of absorbing and accurately measuring attacks....
September 25, 2015 4:01 PM
Mobile Ad Networks as DDoS Vectors: A Case Study
CloudFlare servers are constantly being targeted by DDoS'es. We see everything from attempted DNS reflection attacks to L7 HTTP floods involving large botnets....
August 05, 2015 2:13 AM
Up and to the Right: Forrester Research Ranks CloudFlare as a “Leader” for DDoS Services Providers
Forrester Research, Inc. has released The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Services Providers, Q3 2015 report which ranks CloudFlare as a leader. How do you get placed “up and to the right”? ...
May 21, 2015 10:10 PM
Welcome Acquia!
We’ve had the good fortune to share many great experiences with the Acquia team over the last few years. From breaking bread with founder and CTO Dries Buytaert at SXSW, to staying up late with their incredible team onboarding a joint customer under a DDoS attack. ...
April 30, 2015 12:02 PM
An introduction to JavaScript-based DDoS
CloudFlare protects millions of websites from online threats. One of the oldest and most pervasive attacks launched against websites is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack....
April 24, 2015 12:17 AM
Of Phishing Attacks and WordPress 0days
Proxying around 5% of the Internet’s requests gives us an interesting vantage point from which to observe malicious behavior. However, it also makes us a target. ...