Meet The Workers Team Over Discord
2021-01-09
The Cloudflare Workers team is excited to announce the opening of our Discord Channel!...
Ransom DDoS attacks target a Fortune Global 500 company
2021-01-07
In late 2020, a major Fortune Global 500 company was targeted by a Ransom DDoS (RDDoS) attack by a group claiming to be the Lazarus Group. Cloudflare quickly onboarded them to the Magic Transit service and protected them against the lingering threat. ...
Internet traffic disruption caused by the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville
2021-01-06
On Christmas Day 2020, an apparent suicide bomb exploded in Nashville, TN. The explosion happened outside an AT&T network building on Second Avenue in Nashville at 1230 UTC....
Using One Cron Parser Everywhere With Rust and Saffron
2020-12-25
Cron parsers are everywhere, each supporting their own extensions on the cron string format, which made consistency between parts of Cron Triggers difficult to achieve. Today we’re showing how we easily solved this problem with Rust without needing to write the same code twice....
Holiday Season Update from Lisbon
2020-12-24
Cloudflare Lisbon has come a long way. We now have 74 incredibly talented people working or joining in areas such as Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, Customer Support, People, Places, Product Management, Emerging Technologies or Accounting, and growing fast....
Integrating Cloudflare Gateway and Access
2020-12-23
We’re excited to announce that you can now set up your Access policies to require that all user traffic to your application is filtered by Cloudflare Gateway. This ensures that all of the traffic to your self-hosted and SaaS applications is secured and centrally logged....
Cloudflare Acquires Linc
2020-12-22
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Today, we’re excited to announce the acquisition of Linc, an automation platform to help front-end developers collaborate and build powerful applications....
Beat - An Acoustics Inspired DDoS Attack
2020-12-22
On the week of Black Friday, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated “Beat” - an acoustics inspired DDoS attacks that targeted a Magic Transit customer. ...
Configure identity-based policies in Cloudflare Gateway
2020-12-21
You can now build secure web gateway rules based on user and group identity....
Computing Euclidean distance on 144 dimensions
2020-12-18
Last year we deployed a CSAM image scanning tool. This is so cool! Image processing is always hard, and deploying a real image identification system at a Cloudflare scale is no small achievement! But we hit a problem - the matching algorithm was too slow for our needs....
A quirk in the SUNBURST DGA algorithm
2020-12-18
On Wednesday, December 16, the RedDrip Team from QiAnXin Technology released their discoveries (tweet, github) regarding the random subdomains associated with the SUNBURST malware which was present in the SolarWinds Orion compromise. I...
Introducing Cloudflare Pages: the best way to build JAMstack websites
2020-12-17
Across multiple cultures around the world, this time of year is a time of celebration and sharing of gifts with the people we care the most about....
Trend data on the SolarWinds Orion compromise
2020-12-16
Analyzing SUNBURST malware activity seen on Cloudflare’s public DNS resolver....
Improving Cloudflare’s products and services, one feature request at a time
2020-12-14
Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about Cloudflare’s feature request process, and how we turn customer feedback into product improvements....
Privacy and Compliance Reading List
2020-12-13
In case you missed any of the blog posts this week addressing the topics of Privacy and Compliance, you’ll find a summary below....
Supporting Jurisdictional Restrictions for Durable Objects
2020-12-12
We’re launching Jurisdictional Restrictions for Durable Objects, making it easy for developers to build serverless, stateful applications that comply with data localization obligations....
Encrypting your WAF Payloads with Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE)
2020-12-11
Allowing logging for payloads that trigger the Web Application Firewall has always led to end-user privacy concerns. We built encrypted matched payload logging to solve this!...
Phishpoint back in full swing: an infamous Microsoft SharePoint spoof resumes with new tactics
2020-12-11
Our researchers detected an updated wave of Microsoft SharePoint phish that are leveraging new COVID-19 restrictions to steal victims’ login information....
How to Build a Global Network that Complies with Local Law
2020-12-11
Running a global network that complies with different privacy laws around the world requires coming back to the values that we have championed since our founding....
Securing the post-quantum world
2020-12-11
As quantum computing continues to mature, research and development efforts in cryptography are keeping pace. We’re working with academia and industry peers to help create a new set of cryptography standards that are resilient to attack from quantum computers....
