September 24, 2020 11:00 AM
Firewall Rules lets customers filter the traffic hitting their site, powered by our Wirefilter engine. We’re excited to share some in-depth optimizations we have recently made to improve the performance of our edge....
July 01, 2020 11:00 AM
As with all Cloudflare security products, the WAF is designed to not sacrifice performance for security, but there is always room for improvement. This blog post provides a brief overview of the latest performance improvements that were rolled out to our customers....
September 28, 2019 10:54 PM
Cloudflare has released a new rule as part of its Cloudflare Specials Rulesets, to protect our customers against a high-severity vulnerability in vBulletin. A new zero-day vulnerability was discovered for vBulletin, a proprietary Internet forum software. ...
August 22, 2019 1:00 PM
Today, I’m very pleased to announce the release of a completely overhauled version of our Firewall Event log to our Free, Pro and Business customers. This new Firewall Events log is now available in your Dashboard, and you are not required to do anything to receive this new capability....
May 28, 2019 6:45 PM
On Saturday, 11th May 2019, we got the news of a critical web vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild by advanced persistent threats (APTs), affecting Microsoft’s SharePoint server (versions 2010 through 2019)....
March 05, 2019 10:55 PM
Drupal discovered a severe vulnerability and said they would release a patch. When the patch was released we analysed and created rules to mitigate these. By analysing the patch we created WAF rules to protect Cloudflare customers running Drupal....
March 04, 2019 1:00 PM
Recently we launched Firewall Rules, a new feature that allows you to construct expressions that perform complex matching against HTTP requests and then choose how that traffic is handled....
March 01, 2019 10:00 AM
At Cloudflare, one of our top priorities is to make our products and services intuitive so that we can enable customers to accelerate and protect their Internet properties. We're excited to launch two improvements designed to make our Firewall easier to use and more accessible....
April 20, 2018 4:14 PM
Cloudflare’s team of security analysts monitor for upcoming threats and vulnerabilities and where possible put protection in place for upcoming threats before they compromise our customers....
March 29, 2018 4:10 AM
Drupal has recently announced an update to fix a critical remote code execution exploit (SA-CORE-2018-002/CVE-2018-7600). This patch is to disallow forms and form fields from starting with the “#” character....
April 25, 2017 7:45 AM
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....
February 01, 2017 4:53 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. ...
