Buongiorno, Roma! Cloudflare Data Center CV2017-03-22Cloudflare NetworkData CenterEuropeItalyWe’re excited to announce Cloudflare’s 105th data center in Rome. Visitors in Italy (and especially around the region of Lazio) to over 6 million Internet properties now benefit from reduced latency and increased security. ...Nitin Rao
¡Hola, Ecuador! Quito Data Center expands Cloudflare network to 104 cities across 52 countries2017-03-21Cloudflare NetworkData CenterSouth AmericaOnly 15 miles from the Equator, we are excited to announce Cloudflare’s newest data center in the World Heritage City of Quito, Ecuador....Nitin Rao
Yerevan, Armenia: Cloudflare Data Center #1032017-03-20Cloudflare NetworkData CenterAsiaIn the coming days, Cloudflare will be announcing a series of new data centers across five continents. We begin with Yerevan, the capital and largest city of Armenia, the mountainous country in the South Caucasus. ...Nitin Rao
Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)2017-03-15TLSProduct NewsTLS 1.3SecurityCryptographyCloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web....Nick Sullivan
An AMP validator you can cURL2017-03-08AMPCacheCloudflare has been a long time supporter of AMP, an open-source markup language 1.5 billion web pages are using to accelerate their mobile web performance. Cloudflare runs Ampersand....Dani Grant
Cloudflare at Google NEXT 20172017-03-08GoogleEventsLife at CloudflareGrowthThe Cloudflare team is headed to Google NEXT 2017 from March 8th - 10th at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. We’re excited to meet with customers, partners, and new friends. ...Brady Gentile
Quantifying the Impact of "Cloudbleed"2017-03-01BugsPost MortemPrivacySecurityLast Thursday we released details on a bug in Cloudflare's parser impacting our customers. It was an extremely serious bug that caused data flowing through Cloudflare's network to be leaked onto the Internet....Matthew Prince
Incident report on memory leak caused by Cloudflare parser bug2017-02-23Post MortemSecurityPrivacyBugsLast Friday, Tavis Ormandy from Google’s Project Zero contacted Cloudflare to report a security problem with our edge servers. He was seeing corrupted web pages being returned by some HTTP requests run through Cloudflare....John Graham-Cumming
LuaJIT Hacking: Getting next() out of the NYI list2017-02-21LUAProgrammingSpeed & ReliabilityAt Cloudflare we’re heavy users of LuaJIT and in the past have sponsored many improvements to its performance. ...Javier Guerra
You can now use Google Authenticator and any TOTP app for Two-Factor Authentication2017-02-16GoogleAuthySecuritySince the very beginning, Cloudflare has offered two-factor authentication with Authy, and starting today we are expanding your options to keep your account safe with Google Authenticator and any Time-based One Time Password (TOTP) app of your choice....Evan Johnson
Discovering Great Talent with Path Forward2017-02-15Life at CloudflareCareersEmployee Resource GroupsIn the fall of 2016, I was just beginning my job search. I’d been lucky to lead HR at a number of great cutting-edge technology start-ups, and I was looking for my next adventure....Janet Van Huysse
NCC Group's Cryptography Services audits our Go TLS 1.3 stack2017-02-15TLS 1.3BetaSecurityThe Cloudflare TLS 1.3 beta is run by a Go implementation of the protocol based on the Go standard library, crypto/tls. ...Guest Author
Want to see your DNS analytics? We have a Grafana plugin for that2017-02-14AnalyticsDNSGrafanaDDoSReliabilitySecurityCurious 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. ...Marek Vavruša
Cloudflare Crypto Meetup #5: February 28, 20172017-02-07SecurityMeetUpCloudflare MeetupsCryptographyCome join us on Cloudflare HQ in San Francisco on Tuesday, Febrary 28, 2017 for another cryptography meetup. We again had a great time at the last one, we decided to host another. It's becoming a pattern....Nick Sullivan
DDoS Ransom: An Offer You Can Refuse2017-02-06DDoSSecurityReliabilityCloudflare 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....Justin Paine
NANOG - the art of running a network and discussing common operational issues2017-02-02BGPPeeringEventsSaltBest PracticesThe North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) is the loci of modern Internet innovation and the day-to-day cumulative network-operational knowledge of thousands and thousands of network engineers....Martin J Levy
Protecting everyone from WordPress Content Injection2017-02-01WordPressWAFVulnerabilitiesToday 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....Ben Cartwright-Cox
TLS 1.3 explained by the Cloudflare Crypto Team at 33c32017-02-01TLS 1.3TLSSecurityChromeFirefoxBetaCryptographyNick Sullivan and I gave a talk about TLS 1.3 at 33c3, the latest Chaos Communication Congress. The congress, attended by more that 13,000 hackers in Hamburg, has been one of the hallmark events of the security community for more than 30 years....Filippo Valsorda
Firebolt: the fastest, safest ads on the web2017-01-30AdvertisingSpeed & ReliabilityAMPSSLSecurityCloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. That means a faster, more secure, open Internet world-wide. We have millions of customers using our services like free SSL, an advanced WAF....Dane Knecht
Introducing Accelerated Mobile Links: Making the Mobile Web App-Quick2017-01-12MobileGoogleAMPProduct NewsSpeed & ReliabilityOptimizationWe've predicted that more than half of the traffic to Cloudflare's network will come from mobile devices. Even if they are formatted to be displayed on a small screen, the mobile web is built on traditional web protocols and technologies that were designed for desktop....Matthew Prince