May 17, 2016 1:07 PM
From time to time a customer writes in and asks about certain requests that have been blocked by the CloudFlare WAF. Recently, a customer couldn’t understand why it appeared that some simple GET requests for their homepage were listed as blocked in WAF analytics....
May 09, 2016 10:47 PM
Very early on in the company’s history we decided that everything that CloudFlare does on behalf of its customer-base should be controllable via an API. In fact, when you login to the CloudFlare control panel, you’re really just making API calls to our backend services....
May 09, 2016 1:34 PM
Last week multiple vulnerabilities were made public in the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. These were quickly named ImageTragick. ...
January 21, 2016 2:05 PM
The web is an collaborative ecosystem. Web standards exist to ensure that participants of the network behave in a predictable way....
September 01, 2015 5:04 PM
Some months ago, we made a big bet on partnering with CloudFlare for performance improvements and website security for our Magento hosting customers. Customer experience is core to our business and relying on another company is a major deal. ...
April 25, 2015 3:57 AM
Today the Magento Security Team created a new ModSecurity rule and added it to our WAF rules to mitigate an important RCE (remote code execution) vulnerability in the Magento web e-commerce platform....
April 15, 2015 1:48 PM
A few hours ago, more details surfaced about the MS15-034 vulnerability. Simple PoC code has been widely published that will hang a Windows web server if sent a request with an HTTP Range header containing large byte offsets....
October 16, 2014 9:05 AM
Yesterday the Drupal Security Team released a critical security patch for Drupal 7 that fixes a very serious SQL injection vulnerability....
October 14, 2014 12:16 PM
If you are a CloudFlare Pro or above customer you enjoy the protection of the CloudFlare WAF. If you use one of the common web platforms, such as WordPress, Drupal, Plone, WHMCS, or Joomla, then it's worth checking if the relevant CloudFlare WAF ruleset is enabled....
September 29, 2014 3:47 AM
On Thursday, we rolled out protection against the Shellshock bash vulnerability for all paying customers through the CloudFlare WAF....
June 04, 2014 8:00 AM
Great news for everyone using CloudFlare on an e-commerce site, or a site accepting or processing credit card transactions. After undergoing a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) 2.0 security control assessment, we’ve been certified as a Level 1 service provi...
March 11, 2014 4:00 PM
At CloudFlare a lot of our customers use WordPress, that's why we have our own plugin, we hang out at WordCamp and we wrote a WordPress specific ruleset for our Web Application Firewall....
January 21, 2014 4:00 PM
An attack on your site could be catastrophic. Even a small attack can have major implications. Responding quickly to an attack is imperative. ...
October 03, 2013 11:00 AM
A critical zero-day vulnerability was published today affecting any hosting provider using WHMCS. As part of building a safer web, CloudFlare has added a ruleset to our Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block the published attack vector....
August 23, 2013 5:31 AM
We use nginx throughout our network for front-line web serving, proxying and traffic filtering. In some cases, we've augmented the core C code of nginx with our own modules, but recently we've made a major move to using Lua in conjunction with nginx. One project that's now almo...
August 19, 2013 6:00 AM
We just rolled out an update to CloudFlare's Web Application Firewall (WAF). Previously, CloudFlare's WAF has received criticism from people who have tested it and found that it didn't behave as traditional WAFs are expected to. ...
