Introducing the Cloudflare Geo Key Manager
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach....
Meet Gatebot - a bot that allows us to sleep
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
In the past, we’ve spoken about how Cloudflare is architected to sustain the largest DDoS attacks. During traffic surges we spread the traffic across a very large number of edge servers. ...
Unmetered Mitigation: DDoS Protection Without Limits
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
This is the week of Cloudflare's seventh birthday. It's become a tradition for us to announce a series of products each day of this week and bring major new benefits to our customers. We're beginning with one I'm especially proud of: Unmetered Mitigation....
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August 16, 2017 10:29 PM
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again....
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July 21, 2017 8:01 AM
How to use Cloudflare for Service Discovery
Cloudflare runs 3,588 containers, making up 1,264 apps and services that all need to be able to find and discover each other in order to communicate -- a problem solved with service discovery....
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July 04, 2017 10:32 AM
Three little tools: mmsum, mmwatch, mmhistogram
In a recent blog post, my colleague Marek talked about some SSDP-based DDoS activity we'd been seeing recently. In that blog post he used a tool called mmhistogram to output an ASCII histogram....
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June 28, 2017 3:45 PM
Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) generates 100 Gbps DDoS
Last month we shared statistics on some popular reflection attacks. Back then the average SSDP attack size was ~12 Gbps....
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May 24, 2017 6:16 PM
Reflections on reflection (attacks)
Recently Akamai published an article about CLDAP reflection attacks. This got us thinking. We saw attacks from Connectionless LDAP servers back in November 2016 but totally ignored them because our systems were automatically dropping the attack traffic without any impact....
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April 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing Cloudflare Orbit: A Private Network for IoT Devices
In October, we wrote about a 1.75M rps DDoS attack we mitigated on our network, launched by 52,467 unique IP’s, mostly hacked CCTV cameras. We continued to see more IoT devices in DDoS attacks....
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April 25, 2017 7:45 AM
Ecommerce websites on Cloudflare: best practices
Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’ private data....
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April 13, 2017 8:34 PM
Cloudflare Rate Limiting - Insight, Control, and Mitigation against Layer 7 DDoS Attacks
Today, Cloudflare is extending its Rate Limiting service by allowing any of our customers to sign up. Our Enterprise customers have enjoyed the benefits of Cloudflare’s Rate Limiting offering for the past several months. ...
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February 14, 2017 6:04 PM
Want to see your DNS analytics? We have a Grafana plugin for that
Curious where your DNS traffic is coming from, how much DNS traffic is on your domain, and what records people are querying for that don’t exist? We now have a Grafana plugin for you. ...
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February 06, 2017 9:43 PM
DDoS Ransom: An Offer You Can Refuse
Cloudflare has covered DDoS ransom groups several times in the past. First, we reported on the copycat group claiming to be the Armada Collective and then not too long afterwards, we covered the "new" Lizard Squad....
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December 30, 2016 2:34 PM
2017 and the Internet: our predictions
Looking back over 2016, we saw the good and bad that comes with widespread use and abuse of the Internet. ...
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December 05, 2016 1:54 PM
TLD glue sticks around too long
Recent headline grabbing DDoS attacks provoked heated debates in the DNS community. Everyone has strong opinions on how to harden DNS to avoid downtime in the future. Is it better to use a single DNS provider or multiple? ...
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December 02, 2016 1:21 PM
The Daily DDoS: Ten Days of Massive Attacks
Back in March my colleague Marek wrote about a Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks where we were seeing 400Gbps attacks occurring mostly at the weekends. We speculated that attackers were busy with something else during the week....
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November 08, 2016 6:56 PM
The Internet is Hostile: Building a More Resilient Network
The strength of the Internet is its ability to interconnect all sorts of networks — big data centers, e-commerce websites at small hosting companies, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and Content Delivery Networks (CDN) — just to name a few. ...
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