Tag: Cloudflare

February 5, 2024

Cloudflare has revealed that a nation-state actor hacked into the company’s self-hosted Atlassian server in November 2023, but the attack was stopped by the internal team within a few days of access. The hack, which used stolen tokens and credentials, […]

February 2, 2024

Cloudflare is laying the blame for the cyberattack it suffered late last year the after-effects of the critical Okta breach. The content delivery service provider has published a blog post detailing the cybersecurity incident it suffered on Thanksgiving Day 2023, […]

December 18, 2023

Log4j remained a top attack vector for threat actors in 2023, while a new vulnerability, HTTP/2 Rapid Reset is emerging as a significant threat to organizations, according to Cloudflare’s annual “Year in Review” report. The report is based on data […]

December 5, 2023

Cloudflare joined the industrywide race to deploy AI-optimized graphics processing units in the cloud last month. “Right now, there are members of the Cloudflare team traveling the world with suitcases full of GPUs, installing them throughout our network,” CEO Matthew […]

October 30, 2023

There had been “thousands” of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the time since the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability was disclosed, a new report from Cloudflare has claimed, adding that 89 of those exceeded 100 million requests […]

October 10, 2023

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever. The […]

January 10, 2023

The need for better visibility has only increased as distributed workforces became the norm. In November, the majority of tech professionals ranked fully remote as their most-desired workplace setting, up 53% from 2021, according to Dice data. While remote work […]

November 11, 2022

Both the movie and the music industry are fighting hard against piracy lately. However, while in the past ISPs and the best VPN providers were their main target, DNS services have now been dragged into court on copyright infringement grounds. […]

August 10, 2022

Cloudflare has detailed what it describes as a “targeted phishing attack” against its staff that was prevented from doing damage because all employees are required to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the form of physical security keys in order to […]

August 1, 2022

Cloudflare is in the midst of a significant transformation, as it continues to build out the tools developers need to run their applications across a global network of edge locations. Recent moves put the 18-year-old internet security and performance company […]

April 28, 2022

Microsoft is looking to give its Edge browser an extra security boost with a coming feature called “Edge Secure Network.” The coming VPN service will be powered by Cloudflare, as noted in a recently discovered Microsoft Support page about the […]

March 14, 2022

Cloudflare has announced a raft of new security tools for all its customers as it unveils a major safety push. The company says that email continues being “one of the biggest security threats” for organizations, with various security tools being […]

October 7, 2021

Cloudflare is not liable for the copyright infringement of websites that use its content-delivery and security services, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Cloudflare was sued in November 2018 by Mon Cheri Bridals and Maggie Sottero Designs, two wedding dress manufacturers […]

March 25, 2021

Cloudflare has launched a new web security offering to prevent Magecart-style attacks. Magecart is an umbrella term used to describe JavaScript-based, card-skimming attacks. Legitimate websites and e-commerce platforms containing vulnerabilities — such as in a back-end content management system (CMS) […]

March 22, 2021

Cloudflare has added two new major features to its Cloudflare One network-as-a-service platform. Magic WAN allows organizations to connect their branch offices, data centers, cloud assets, and remote workers to its global network and use it as their own software-defined […]

March 1, 2021

As network-layer DDoS attacks continue to increase, more businesses are adopting DDoS protection services such as Cloudflare’s Magic Transit. Magic Transit protects organizations’ entire networks from DDoS attacks by placing Cloudflare’s network in front of theirs and this functionality can […]

December 8, 2020

For more than three decades, the Internet’s most key underpinning has posed privacy and security threats to the billion-plus people who use it every day. Now, Cloudflare, Apple, and content-delivery network Fastly have introduced a novel way to fix that […]

September 18, 2020

The Internet Archive and Cloudflare have teamed up to archive the content of websites that use Cloudflare’s Always Online service, increasing the odds that users will be able to view a recent version of a website during outages. The partnership […]

May 28, 2020

During the early days of the coronavirus outbreak many wondered if the internet would end up going down due to the dramatic increase in traffic from remote working, distance learning and people keeping themselves occupied while stuck at home. In […]

July 4, 2019

Last week, Verizon caused a major BGP misroute that took large chunks of the Internet, including CDN company Cloudflare, partially down for a day. This week, the rest of the Internet has apparently asked Verizon to hold its beer. Cloudflare […]