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December 12, 2017 2:00 PM
Why Some Phishing Emails Are Mysteriously Disappearing
Phishing is the absolute worst.
Unfortunately, sometimes phishing campaigns use Cloudflare for the very convenient, free DNS. ...
December 07, 2017 8:44 PM
On the Leading Edge - Cloudflare named a leader in The Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions
Cloudflare has been recognized as a leader in the “Forrester WaveTM: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q4 2017.”...
December 07, 2017 2:00 PM
CAA of the Wild: Supporting a New Standard
One thing we take pride in at Cloudflare is embracing new protocols and standards that help make the Internet faster and safer. Sometimes this means that we’ll launch support for experimental features or standards still under active development, as we did with TLS 1.3....
November 23, 2017 3:28 AM
The New DDoS Landscape
News outlets and blogs will frequently compare DDoS attacks by the volume of traffic that a victim receives. Surely this makes some sense, right? The greater the volume of traffic a victim receives, the harder to mitigate an attack - right? ...
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing the Cloudflare Geo Key Manager
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach....
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
Meet Gatebot - a bot that allows us to sleep
In the past, we’ve spoken about how Cloudflare is architected to sustain the largest DDoS attacks. During traffic surges we spread the traffic across a very large number of edge servers. ...
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
Unmetered Mitigation: DDoS Protection Without Limits
This is the week of Cloudflare's seventh birthday. It's become a tradition for us to announce a series of products each day of this week and bring major new benefits to our customers. We're beginning with one I'm especially proud of: Unmetered Mitigation....
September 10, 2017 5:04 PM
Delivering Dot
Since March 30, 2017, Cloudflare has been providing DNS Anycast service as additional F-Root instances under contract with ISC (the F-Root operator).
F-Root is a single IPv4 address plus a single IPv6 address which both ISC and Cloudflare announce to the global Internet as a sh...
August 18, 2017 5:40 PM
Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed
As opposed to the public telephone network, the internet has a Packet Switched design. But just how big can these packets be?...
July 21, 2017 8:01 AM
How to use Cloudflare for Service Discovery
Cloudflare runs 3,588 containers, making up 1,264 apps and services that all need to be able to find and discover each other in order to communicate -- a problem solved with service discovery....
July 04, 2017 10:32 AM
Three little tools: mmsum, mmwatch, mmhistogram
In a recent blog post, my colleague Marek talked about some SSDP-based DDoS activity we'd been seeing recently. In that blog post he used a tool called mmhistogram to output an ASCII histogram....
June 28, 2017 3:45 PM
Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) generates 100 Gbps DDoS
Last month we shared statistics on some popular reflection attacks. Back then the average SSDP attack size was ~12 Gbps....
June 07, 2017 12:47 PM
How we built rate limiting capable of scaling to millions of domains
Back in April we announced Rate Limiting of requests for every Cloudflare customer. Being able to rate limit at the edge of the network has many advantages: it’s easier for customers to set up and operate, their origin servers are not bothered by excessive traffic or layer 7 atta...