When the Attackers Name Malware After You, You Know You're Doing Something Right
February 14, 2013 1:29AM
CloudFlare's I'm Under Attack Mode (IUAM) is elegantly simple. When a site is under an application layer (Layer 7) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the mode will return a challenge page to a visitor....
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How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One
September 17, 2012 9:17PM
I'm Under Attack Mode
Traffic
DDoS
Attacks
Reliability
Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday. The outage was caused when we applied an overly aggressive rate limit to traffic on our network while battling a determined DDoS attacker....
Turning "I'm Under Attack" into "I'm Doing Some Good"
August 28, 2012 6:44PM
Product News
Reliability
I'm Under Attack Mode
Attacks
DDoS
CloudFlare's I'm Under Attack mode allows our customers to, at the click of a button, tell us that they are experiencing an attack and enable automatic protection. It works by slowing down visits to the web site that's under attack and performing extra work to identify malicious visitors....
Introducing: I'm Under Attack Mode
April 12, 2012 12:12AM
I'm Under Attack Mode
Product News
Reliability
Speed & Reliability
CloudFlare provides a broad level of protection from a wide range of attacks. We do this while minimizing false positives or annoyances to legitimate customers. CloudFlare didn't begin as a DDoS mitigation service, but we've rapidly found that we are good at it....