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December 21, 2017 2:01 PM
2018 and the Internet: our predictions
At the end of 2016, I wrote a blog post with seven predictions for 2017. Let’s start by reviewing how I did. I’ll score myself with two points for being correct, one point for mostly right and zero for wrong. That’ll give me a maximum possible score of fourteen. Here goes......
December 14, 2017 7:41 PM
Inside the infamous Mirai IoT Botnet: A Retrospective Analysis
This post provides a retrospective analysis of Mirai — the infamous Internet-of-Things botnet that took down major websites via massive distributed denial-of-service using hundreds of thousands of compromised Internet-Of-Things devices....
December 11, 2017 2:00 PM
The end of the road for Server: cloudflare-nginx
Six years ago when I joined Cloudflare the company had a capital F, about 20 employees, and a software stack that was mostly NGINX, PHP and PowerDNS (there was even a little Apache). ...
December 07, 2017 8:44 PM
On the Leading Edge - Cloudflare named a leader in The Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions
Cloudflare has been recognized as a leader in the “Forrester WaveTM: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q4 2017.”...
December 07, 2017 2:00 PM
CAA of the Wild: Supporting a New Standard
One thing we take pride in at Cloudflare is embracing new protocols and standards that help make the Internet faster and safer. Sometimes this means that we’ll launch support for experimental features or standards still under active development, as we did with TLS 1.3....
December 06, 2017 2:00 PM
Make SSL boring again
It may (or may not!) come as surprise, but a few months ago we migrated Cloudflare’s edge SSL connection termination stack to use BoringSSL: Google's crypto and SSL implementation that started as a fork of OpenSSL....
November 23, 2017 3:28 AM
The New DDoS Landscape
News outlets and blogs will frequently compare DDoS attacks by the volume of traffic that a victim receives. Surely this makes some sense, right? The greater the volume of traffic a victim receives, the harder to mitigate an attack - right? ...
November 13, 2017 4:09 PM
Thwarting the Tactics of the Equifax Attackers
We are now 3 months on from one of the biggest, most significant data breaches in history, but has it redefined people's awareness on security?...
November 10, 2017 11:06 AM
On the dangers of Intel's frequency scaling
While I was writing the post comparing the new Qualcomm server chip, Centriq, to our current stock of Intel Skylake-based Xeons, I noticed a disturbing phenomena....
November 09, 2017 4:05 PM
Privacy Pass - “The Math”
During a recent internship at Cloudflare, I had the chance to help integrate support for improving the accessibility of websites that are protected by the Cloudflare edge network. ...
November 08, 2017 8:03 PM
ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison
One of the nicer perks I have here at Cloudflare is access to the latest hardware, long before it even reaches the market. Until recently I mostly played with Intel hardware. ...
November 06, 2017 6:07 AM
LavaRand in Production: The Nitty-Gritty Technical Details
As some of you may know, there's a wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office that we use for cryptography. In this post, we’re going to explore how that works in technical detail. ...
November 06, 2017 5:54 AM
Randomness 101: LavaRand in Production
As some of you may know, there's a wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office that we use for cryptography. In this post, we’re going to explore how that works. ...
October 20, 2017 4:23 PM
Performing & Preventing SSL Stripping: A Plain-English Primer
Over the past few days we learnt about a new attack that posed a serious weakness in the encryption protocol used to secure all modern Wi-Fi networks....