Inside ImageTragick: The Real Payloads Being Used to Hack Websites2016-05-09WAF RulesWAFVulnerabilitiesReliabilitySecurityLast week multiple vulnerabilities were made public in the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. These were quickly named ImageTragick. ...John Graham-Cumming
First Bay Area OpenResty Meetup2016-05-09LUANGINXProgrammingEventsMeetUpOn March 9, 章亦春, known to most of us as agentzh, organized the first Bay Area OpenResty Meetup at CloudFlare's San Francisco office....John Graham-Cumming
Everybody gets WebSockets2016-05-05Speed & ReliabilityProduct NewsTwo summers ago, with a seemed-big-at-the-time network of 28 datacenters, not long after introducing Medellin, CloudFlare introduced support for WebSockets, initially for our Enterprise customers....John Roberts
Dan Kaminsky Will Be Taking Your Questions At Our DNS Meetup Next Week In San Francisco2016-05-04DNSMeetUpCloudflare MeetupsEventsReliabilityOur last DNS meetup was a packed house with Paul Mockapetris, the original inventor of DNS. We learned why DNS answers have a question count but always only one question, why underscores aren’t allowed in domain names, and the history of how DNS came to be....Dani Grant
Yet Another Padding Oracle in OpenSSL CBC Ciphersuites2016-05-04TLSVulnerabilitiesReliabilitySSLSecurityYesterday a new vulnerability has been announced in OpenSSL/LibreSSL. A padding oracle in CBC mode decryption, to be precise. Just like Lucky13. Actually, it’s in the code that fixes Lucky13....Filippo Valsorda
Introducing CloudFlare Origin CA2016-05-03HTTPSTLSUniversal SSLSSLProduct NewsSecurityIn the fall of 2014 CloudFlare launched Universal SSL and doubled the number of sites on the Internet accessible via HTTPS. In just a few days we issued certificates protecting millions of our customers’ domains and became the easiest way to secure your website with SSL/TLS....Patrick R. Donahue
Stronger protection and more control over security settings with CloudFlare’s new cPanel plugin2016-05-02PartnersProduct NewsSecurityCloudFlare has released a new version of our plugin for cPanel with two new features and more control over the security settings of your website....Rahul Mahajan
Bangkok, Thailand: CloudFlare’s 79th Data Center2016-05-01Cloudflare NetworkData CenterAsiaCloudFlare just turned up our newest data center in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and a very popular destination with travelers in Southeast Asia. This expands our network to span 32 cities across Asia, and 79 cities globally....Nitin Rao
Lizard Squad Ransom Threats: New Name, Same Faux Armada Collective M.O.2016-04-29DDoSAttacksReliabilityeCommerceSecurityCloudFlare recently wrote about the group of cyber criminals claiming to be be the "Armada Collective." In that article, we stressed that this group had not followed through on any of the ransom threats they had made. ...Justin Paine
Announcing Support for HTTP/2 Server Push2016-04-28HTTP2ReliabilityspdyProduct NewsLast November, we rolled out HTTP/2 support for all our customers. At the time, HTTP/2 was not in wide use, but more than 88k of the Alexa 2 million websites are now HTTP/2-enabled....Vlad Krasnov
Ask Me Anything About HTTP/22016-04-27HTTP2spdyEventsReliabilityWe're big fans of HTTP/2 at CloudFlare. Our customers make up the majority of HTTP/2 enabled domains today. HTTP/2 is a key part of the modern web, and its growth and adoption is changing how websites and applications are built....John Roberts
Building the simplest Go static analysis tool2016-04-27ToolsGoProgrammingGo native vendoring (a.k.a. GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT) allows you to freeze dependencies by putting them in a vendor folder in your project. The compiler will then look there before searching the GOPATH....Filippo Valsorda
Kyiv, Ukraine: Cloudflare’s 78th Data Center2016-04-26Cloudflare NetworkData CenterEuropePeeringЗдоровенькі були! CloudFlare just turned up our newest datacenter in Kiev, the capital and largest city of Ukraine. Kiev is an old city with more than 1,000 years of history. ...Nitin Rao
Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective2016-04-25AttacksDDoSReliabilitySecurityBeginning in March 2016, we began hearing reports of a gang of cybercriminals once again calling themselves the Armada Collective. The calling card of the gang was an extortion email sent to a wide variety of online businesses threatening to launch DDoS attacks if they weren't paid in Bitcoin....Matthew Prince
Today Is A Big Day For Page Rules2016-04-19Page RulesProduct NewsSpeed & ReliabilityAPIToday we're releasing a whole suite of upgrades to page rules: API support, additional settings, pausing a page rule and a mobile-friendly design. ...Dani Grant
IETF Hackathon: Getting TLS 1.3 working in the browser2016-04-18TLSTLS 1.3HackathonSecurityIETFOver the last few years, the IETF community has been focused on improving and expanding the use of the technical foundations for Internet security....Nick Sullivan
New for Virtual DNS Customers: Self-Service Dashboard and APIs, and Two New Features2016-04-13Product NewsDNSReliabilityMulti-UserSecurityAttacksDashboardAPIToday we're launching two new features and a brand new dashboard and API for Virtual DNS. Virtual DNS is CloudFlare’s DNS proxy that sits in front of some of the largest hosting providers in the world, shielding their DNS infrastructure from attacks....Dani Grant
What happened next: the deprecation of ANY2016-04-13DNSDNSSECReliabilityDDoSAttacksSecurityAlmost a year ago, we announced that we were going to stop answering DNS ANY queries. We were prompted by a number of factors: The lack of legitimate ANY use. The abundance of malicious ANY use. The constant use of ANY queries in large DNS amplification DDoS attacks....Ólafur Guðmundsson
Taipei: CloudFlare’s 77th Data Center is Now Live2016-04-11Cloudflare NetworkData CenterAsiaWe are excited to announce the launch of our Taipei data center, which is our 28th data center in Asia, and our 77th data center globally. Millions of websites which were previously served from Hong Kong are now served locally from Taipei....Nitin Rao
The curious case of slow downloads2016-04-11Speed & ReliabilityNGINXProgrammingSome time ago we discovered that certain very slow downloads were getting abruptly terminated and began investigating whether that was a client (i.e. web browser) or server (i.e. us) problem....Marek Majkowski