September 23, 2016 4:01 PM
The CloudFlare London office hosts weekly internal Tech Talks (with free lunch picked by the speaker). My recent one was an explanation of the latest version of TLS, 1.3, how it works and why it's faster and safer....
September 22, 2016 2:34 PM
Long ago it was difficult, expensive, and slow to set up an HTTPS capable web site. Then along came services like CloudFlare’s Universal SSL that made switching from http:// to https:// as easy as clicking a button. ...
September 21, 2016 3:51 PM
Encrypting the web is not an easy task. Various complexities prevent websites from migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, including mixed content, which can prevent sites from functioning with HTTPS. ...
September 20, 2016 1:04 PM
The encrypted Internet is about to become a whole lot snappier. When it comes to browsing, we’ve been driving around in a beat-up car from the 90s for a while. Little does anyone know, we’re all about to trade in our station wagons for a smoking new sports car. ...
September 20, 2016 1:04 PM
Since CloudFlare’s inception, we have worked tirelessly to make encryption as simple and as accessible as possible. Over the last two years, we’ve made CloudFlare the easiest way to enable encryption for web properties and internet services. ...
August 25, 2016 2:18 PM
The mission of the United State's Government's Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is to protect consumers from injury by products. ...
July 18, 2016 3:26 PM
We have rolled out automatic protection for all customers for the the newly announced vulnerability called httpoxy....
June 21, 2016 6:03 AM
We would like to share more details with our customers and readers on the internet outages that occurred this morning and earlier in the week, and what we are doing to prevent these from happening again....
June 14, 2016 1:04 PM
GitHub offers a web hosting service whereby you can serve a static website from a GitHub repository. This platform, GitHub Pages, can be used with CloudFlare whilst using a custom domain name. ...
June 10, 2016 1:08 PM
The layered nature of the Internet (HTTP on top of some reliable transport (e.g. TCP), TCP on top of some datagram layer (e.g. IP), IP on top of some link (e.g. Ethernet)) has been very important in its development. ...
May 17, 2016 1:07 PM
From time to time a customer writes in and asks about certain requests that have been blocked by the CloudFlare WAF. Recently, a customer couldn’t understand why it appeared that some simple GET requests for their homepage were listed as blocked in WAF analytics....
May 10, 2016 3:21 PM
At CloudFlare we strive to combine features that are simple, secure, and backed by solid technology. The Origin CA is a great example of this. You no longer need to go to a third-party certificate authority to protect the connection between CloudFlare and your origin server....
May 09, 2016 1:34 PM
Last week multiple vulnerabilities were made public in the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. These were quickly named ImageTragick. ...
May 04, 2016 12:20 PM
Yesterday a new vulnerability has been announced in OpenSSL/LibreSSL. A padding oracle in CBC mode decryption, to be precise. Just like Lucky13. Actually, it’s in the code that fixes Lucky13....
May 03, 2016 11:40 AM
In the fall of 2014 CloudFlare launched Universal SSL and doubled the number of sites on the Internet accessible via HTTPS. In just a few days we issued certificates protecting millions of our customers’ domains and became the easiest way to secure your website with SSL/TLS....
May 02, 2016 5:00 PM
CloudFlare has released a new version of our plugin for cPanel with two new features and more control over the security settings of your website....
April 29, 2016 11:21 PM
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
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 18, 2016 8:47 AM
Over the last few years, the IETF community has been focused on improving and expanding the use of the technical foundations for Internet security....
