How to drop 10 million packets per second
July 06, 2018 2:00PM
Internally our DDoS mitigation team is sometimes called "the packet droppers". When other teams build exciting products to do smart things with the traffic that passed through our network, we take joy in discovering novel ways of discarding it....
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Today we mitigated 1.1.1.1
June 01, 2018 2:13AM
Reliability
Post Mortem
Mitigation
1.1.1.1
DNS
Cloudflare is protected from attacks by the Gatebot DDoS mitigation pipeline. Gatebot performs hundreds of mitigations a day, shielding our infrastructure and our customers from L3 and L7 attacks....
Rate Limiting: Delivering more rules, and greater control
May 21, 2018 9:41PM
Rate Limiting
Product News
Reliability
Speed & Reliability
Attacks
With more and more platforms taking the necessary precautions against DDoS attacks like integrating DDoS mitigation services and increasing bandwidth at weak points, Layer 3 and 4 attacks are just not as effective anymore....
Memcrashed - Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211
February 27, 2018 2:38PM
DDoS
Developers
Mitigation
Reliability
Attacks
Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211. In the past, we have talked a lot about amplification attacks happening on the internet....
On the Leading Edge - Cloudflare named a leader in The Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions
December 07, 2017 8:44PM
DDoS
Awards
Reliability
Mitigation
Security
Cloudflare has been recognized as a leader in the “Forrester WaveTM: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q4 2017.”...