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October 11, 2016
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
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 30, 2016
Introducing Dedicated SSL Certificates
When we launched Universal SSL in September 2014 we eliminated the costly and confusing process of securing a website or app with SSL, and replaced it with one free step: sign up for Cloudflare....
September 24, 2016
How we brought HTTPS Everywhere to the cloud (part 1)
CloudFlare's mission is to make HTTPS accessible for all our customers. It provides security for their websites, improved ranking on search engines, better performance with HTTP/2, and access to browser features such as geolocation that are being deprecated for plaintext HTTP....
September 23, 2016
An overview of TLS 1.3 and Q&A
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
Fixing the mixed content problem with Automatic HTTPS Rewrites
It used to be difficult, expensive, and slow to set up an HTTPS capable web site. Then along came CloudFlare’s Universal SSL that made switching from http:// to https:// as easy as clicking a button. ...
September 21, 2016
Opportunistic Encryption: Bringing HTTP/2 to the unencrypted web
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
Introducing TLS 1.3
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
Encryption Week
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. ...
September 19, 2016
CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin
Over 25% of all websites use WordPress, and over 10% of all internet traffic flows through CloudFlare; WordPress + CloudFlare has always been a winning combination, and now with CloudFlare’s new WordPress plugin, it's easier than ever to make your site 60% faster....
August 25, 2016
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. ...
July 18, 2016
CloudFlare sites protected from httpoxy
We have rolled out automatic protection for all customers for the the newly announced vulnerability called httpoxy....
June 21, 2016
A Post Mortem on this Morning's Incident
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
Secure and fast GitHub Pages with CloudFlare
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.
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