Advancing Threat Intelligence: JA4 fingerprints and inter-request signals
2024-08-12
Explore how Cloudflare's JA4 fingerprinting and inter-request signals provide robust and scalable insights for advanced web security and threat detection. ...
Introducing Automatic SSL/TLS: securing and simplifying origin connectivity
2024-08-08
This new Automatic SSL/TLS setting will maximize and simplify the encryption modes Cloudflare uses to communicate with origin servers by using the SSL/TLS Recommender....
Celebrating one year of Project Cybersafe Schools
2024-08-08
August 8, 2024, marks the first anniversary of Project Cybersafe Schools, Cloudflare’s initiative to provide small K-12 public school districts in the United States with a package of Zero Trust ...
The backbone behind Cloudflare’s Connectivity Cloud
2024-08-06
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Read through the latest milestones and expansions of Cloudflare's global backbone and how it supports our Connectivity Cloud and our services...
A recent spate of Internet disruptions
2024-08-01
Cloudflare Radar is constantly monitoring the Internet for widespread disruptions. Here we examine several recent noteworthy disruptions detected in the first month of Q3, including traffic anomalies observed in Bangladesh, Syria, Pakistan, and Venezuela....
How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics has impacted Internet traffic
2024-07-30
This blog post explores the impact of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Internet traffic in France and beyond, concentrating on web activity during the opening ceremony and the initial days of competition. Let the games continue....
Avoiding downtime: modern alternatives to outdated certificate pinning practices
2024-07-29
Outages caused by certificate pinning is increasing. Learn why certificate pinning hasn’t kept up with modern standards and find alternatives to improve security while reducing management overhead...
Making WAF ML models go brrr: saving decades of processing time
2024-07-25
In this post, we discuss performance optimizations we've implemented for our WAF ML product. We'll guide you through code examples, benchmarks, and we'll share the impressive latency reduction numbers...
Meta Llama 3.1 now available on Workers AI
2024-07-23
Cloudflare is excited to be a launch partner with Meta to introduce Workers AI support for Llama 3.1...
Countdown to Paris 2024 Olympics: France leads in web interest
2024-07-22
As the Paris 2024 Olympics approach, our analysis reveals France, the host nation, leads in DNS traffic to official Olympic sites, followed by the UK, the US, and Australia...
Exploring Internet traffic during the 2024 U.S. Republican National Convention
2024-07-19
This week, the Republican National Convention was hosted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from July 15 to 18, 2024. We examined traffic shifts and cyberattacks since June 2024 to see how these events have...
Eliminating hardware with Load Balancing and Cloudflare One
2024-07-16
Cloudflare is adding support for end-to-end private traffic flows to our local traffic management (LTM) load balancing solution, and allowing for the replacement of hardware load balancers...
Q2 2024 Internet disruption summary
2024-07-16
Government directed shutdowns and cable cuts were both significant sources of Internet outages in Q2 2024. This post explores these disruptions, as well as others caused by power outages, maintenance, technical problems, military action, and unknown causes...
Application Security report: 2024 update
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...
Euro 2024’s impact on Internet traffic: a closer look at finalists Spain and England
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...
Cloudflare Zaraz adds support for server-side rendering of X and Instagram embeds
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...
DDoS threat report for 2024 Q2
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...
RADIUS/UDP vulnerable to improved MD5 collision attack
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...
French elections: political cyber attacks and Internet traffic shifts
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...
UK election day 2024: traffic trends and attacks on political parties
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...