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February 01, 2017 4:53 PM
Protecting everyone from WordPress Content Injection
Today a severe vulnerability was announced by the WordPress Security Team that allows unauthenticated users to change content on a site using unpatched (below version 4.7.2) WordPress....
September 19, 2016 8:00 PM
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....
May 17, 2016 1:07 PM
The Sleepy User Agent
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 09, 2016 10:47 PM
python-cloudflare
Very early on in the company’s history we decided that everything that CloudFlare does on behalf of its customer-base should be controllable via an API. In fact, when you login to the CloudFlare control panel, you’re really just making API calls to our backend services....
May 09, 2016 1:34 PM
Inside ImageTragick: The Real Payloads Being Used to Hack Websites
Last week multiple vulnerabilities were made public in the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. These were quickly named ImageTragick. ...
January 21, 2016 2:05 PM
Preventing Malicious Request Loops
The web is an collaborative ecosystem. Web standards exist to ensure that participants of the network behave in a predictable way....
September 01, 2015 5:04 PM
Simple Helix chooses CloudFlare to ignite white-hot Magento performance
Some months ago, we made a big bet on partnering with CloudFlare for performance improvements and website security for our Magento hosting customers. Customer experience is core to our business and relying on another company is a major deal. ...
July 03, 2015 1:41 PM
Blue Light Special: Ensuring fast global configuration changes
CloudFlare operates a huge global network of servers that proxy our customers' web sites, operate as caches, inspect requests to ensure they are not malicious, deflect DDoS attacks and handle one of the largest authoritative DNS systems in the world. ...
April 25, 2015 3:57 AM
New Magento WAF Rule – RCE Vulnerability Protection
Today the Magento Security Team created a new ModSecurity rule and added it to our WAF rules to mitigate an important RCE (remote code execution) vulnerability in the Magento web e-commerce platform....
April 15, 2015 1:48 PM
Protection against critical Windows vulnerability (CVE-2015-1635)
A few hours ago, more details surfaced about the MS15-034 vulnerability. Simple PoC code has been widely published that will hang a Windows web server if sent a request with an HTTP Range header containing large byte offsets....
October 16, 2014 9:05 AM
Drupal 7 SA-CORE-2014-005 SQL Injection Protection
Yesterday the Drupal Security Team released a critical security patch for Drupal 7 that fixes a very serious SQL injection vulnerability....
October 14, 2014 12:16 PM
Automatic protection for common web platforms
If you are a CloudFlare Pro or above customer you enjoy the protection of the CloudFlare WAF. If you use one of the common web platforms, such as WordPress, Drupal, Plone, WHMCS, or Joomla, then it's worth checking if the relevant CloudFlare WAF ruleset is enabled....
September 29, 2014 3:47 AM
Shellshock protection enabled for all customers
On Thursday, we rolled out protection against the Shellshock bash vulnerability for all paying customers through the CloudFlare WAF....
June 04, 2014 8:00 AM
CloudFlare is PCI Certified
Great news for everyone using CloudFlare on an e-commerce site, or a site accepting or processing credit card transactions. After undergoing a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) 2.0 security control assessment, we’ve been certified as a Level 1 service provi...