2024-07-11

Cloudflare’s updated 2024 view on Internet cyber security trends spanning global traffic insights, bot traffic insights, API traffic insights, and client-side risks...

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  Michael Tremante
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  Sabina Zejnilovic
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  Catherine Newcomb

2024-07-11

Here we examine how UEFA Euro 2024 football matches have influenced Internet traffic patterns in participating countries, with a special focus on the two finalists, Spain and England, on their journey to the final...

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  João Tomé

2024-07-10

We are thrilled to announce Cloudflare Zaraz support for server-side rendering of embeds from X and Instagram. This allows for secure, privacy-preserving, and performant embedding without third-party JavaScript or cookies, enhancing security, privacy, and performance on your website...

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  Yair Dovrat

2024-07-09

Welcome to the 18th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network. This edition focuses on the second quarter of 2024...

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  Omer Yoachimik
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  Jorge Pacheco

2024-07-09

The RADIUS protocol is commonly used to control administrative access to networking gear. Despite its importance, RADIUS hasn’t changed much in decades. We discuss an attack on RADIUS as a case study for why it’s important for legacy protocols to keep up with advancements in cryptography...

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  Sharon Goldberg
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  Miro Haller (Guest Author)
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  Nadia Heninger (Guest Author)
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  Michael Milano (Guest Author)
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  Dan Shumow (Guest Author)
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  Marc Stevens (Guest Author)
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  Adam Suhl (Guest Author)

2024-07-08

Check the dynamics of the 2024 French legislative elections, the surprising election results’ impact on Internet traffic changes, and the cyber attacks targeting political parties...

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  João Tomé

2024-07-05

Here, we explore the dynamics of Internet traffic and cybersecurity during the UK’s 2024 general election, highlighting late-day traffic changes and a post-vote attack on a political party...

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  João Tomé

2024-07-04

On June 27, 2024, a small number of users globally may have noticed that 1.1.1.1 was unreachable or degraded. The root cause was a mix of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking and a route leak...

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  Bryton Herdes
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  Mingwei Zhang
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  Tanner Ryan

2024-07-03

How Cloudflare mitigated DDoS attacks targeting French political parties during the 2024 legislative elections, as detailed in our ongoing election coverage...

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  João Tomé

2024-07-03

To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier...

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  Alex Bocharov
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  Santiago Vargas
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  Adam Martinetti
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  Reid Tatoris
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  Carlos Azevedo

2024-06-28

See how the first 2024 US presidential debate between Biden and Trump influenced Internet traffic patterns, email trends, and heightened cybersecurity concerns across digital platforms...

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  João Tomé

2024-06-28

Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for Postgres protocol-level named prepared statements across pooled connections. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature...

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  Andrew Repp

2024-06-27

Introducing a new way to do function calling in Workers AI by running function code alongside your inference. Plus, a new @cloudflare/ai-utils package to make getting started as simple as possible...

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  Harley Turan
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  Dhravya Shah
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  Michelle Chen

2024-06-26

polyfill.io, a popular JavaScript library service, can no longer be trusted and should be removed from websites...

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  Matthew Prince
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  John Graham-Cumming
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  Michael Tremante

2024-06-26

A new DDoS rule resulted in an increase in error responses and latency for Cloudflare customers. Here’s how it went wrong, and what we’ve learned...

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  Lloyd Wallis
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  Julien Desgats
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  Manish Arora

2024-06-24

To help protect against account compromise via credential stuffing attacks, Cloudflare will notify dashboard users when we detect that a password was found in an external data breach...

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  Garrett Galow

2024-06-24

Cloudflare's Bot Management team has released a new Machine Learning model for bot detection (v8), focusing on bots and abuse from residential proxies...

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  Bob AminAzad
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  Santiago Vargas
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  Adam Martinetti

2024-06-21

Discover how UEFA Euro 2024 is shifting Internet traffic patterns during games across Europe with insights into traffic drops and cybersecurity concerns during national team games...

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  João Tomé

2024-06-21

Similar to actions taken over the last several years, governments in Syria, Iraq, and Algeria have again disrupted Internet connectivity nationwide in an attempt to prevent cheating on exams. We investigate how these disruptions were implemented, and their impact...

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  David Belson

2024-06-20

Patrick S. Finn is joining Cloudflare as Vice President of Sales in the US, Canada, and Latin America...

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  Patrick S. Finn