A July 4 technical reading list
July 04, 2022
Here’s a short list of recent technical blog posts to give you something to read today...
Exam time means Internet disruptions in Syria, Sudan and Algeria
June 14, 2022
As they have done over the past several years, Syria and Sudan are implementing multi-hour nationwide Internet shutdowns. Algeria has also taken a similar approach in the past, but this year appears to be implementing more targeted website/app blocking...
AAE-1 & SMW5 cable cuts impact millions of users across multiple countries
June 10, 2022
On June 7, the Africa-Asia-Europe-1 (AAE-1) and SEA-ME-WE-5 (SMW-5) submarine cables suffered cable cuts, impactingInternet connectivity for millions of Internet users across multiple countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia...
How Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee had an impact on the Internet
June 09, 2022
The UK's Internet traffic was clearly impacted with less traffic than usual during this weekend's celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. We also show impact from Canada to New Zealand and the royals and news websites...
In Ukraine and beyond, what it takes to keep vulnerable groups online
June 08, 2022
As we celebrate the eighth anniversary of Project Galileo, we want to provide a view into the type of cyber attacks experienced by organizations protected under the project...
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May 16, 2022
How Ramadan shows up in Internet trends
What happens to the Internet traffic in countries who observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, we see clear shifts and changing patterns in Internet use, particularly before dawn and after sunset....
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May 10, 2022
Watching Eurovision 2022 on Cloudflare Radar
This year, for the 66th edition, we have a dedicated page for Eurovision fans, journalists or anyone interested in following Internet trends related to the event taking place in Turin, Italy. ...
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May 04, 2022
Tracking shifts in Internet connectivity in Kherson, Ukraine
Over this past week, we observed an outage in the occupied city of Kherson, south Ukraine, coupled with an apparent shift in who controls the Internet within the region...
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April 26, 2022
Two voting days, a debate and a polling rule in France impacts the Internet
We blogged previously about some trends concerning the first round of the 2022 French presidential election, held on April 10. Here we take a look at the run-off election this Sunday, April 24, that ended up re-electing Emmanuel Macron as President of France...
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April 20, 2022
US Tax Day 2022. How leaving it to the last day impacts tax sites
How tax related websites were impacted by the Tax Day 2022 (the April 18 deadline to fill federal and state taxes)? With the highest growth in April...
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April 12, 2022
DDoS Attack Trends for 2022 Q1
Welcome to our first DDoS report of 2022, and the ninth in total so far. This report includes new data points and insights both in the application-layer and network-layer sections — as observed across the global Cloudflare network between January and March 2022...
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April 11, 2022
The 2022 French Presidential election leaves its mark on the Internet
What happens to the Internet trends in France when an election like the 2022 French presidential happens? Here are some answers....
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April 04, 2022
Internet disruptions overview for Q1 2022
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the first quarter of 2022, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause...
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March 29, 2022
How the Oscars impacted the Internet (at least in the US)
How the Internet was impacted by the Oscars 2022 moments, including the Will Smith incident...
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March 24, 2022
Cloudflare Radar’s new ASN pages
Autonomous Systems (ASes) are a group of routable IP prefixes belonging to a single entity or organization, and is one of the fundamental building blocks of the Internet...
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March 21, 2022
Application security: Cloudflare’s view
In this post, we share some of the insights we’ve gathered from the 32 million HTTP requests/second that pass through our network...
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March 09, 2022
DNSSEC issues take Fiji domains offline
DNSSEC issues with the .fj ccTLD caused problems reaching websites on the island nation...
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March 04, 2022
Internet traffic patterns in Ukraine since February 21, 2022
Cloudflare operates in more than 250 cities worldwide where we connect our equipment to the Internet to provide our broad range of services...
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February 22, 2022
Internet is back in Tonga after 38 days of outage
Tonga, the South Pacific archipelago nation (with 169 islands), was reconnected to the Internet this early morning (UTC) and is back online after successful repairs to the undersea cable that was damaged on Saturday, January 15, 2022, by the January 14, volcanic eruption...
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