Security News

Cloudflare Improves DDoS Mitigation Tool
2018-05-22 18:32

Cloudflare announced a series of improvements to its Rate Limiting distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection tool this week.  read more

DDOS scum have moved to Layer 7, says Cloudflare
2018-05-22 03:57

Bad actors increasingly target application processes instead of flooding networks Attackers have noticed that the world is getting better at fending off massive DDoS attacks, and are trying to...

'Spectrum' Service Extends Cloudflare Protection Beyond Web Servers
2018-04-13 15:52

Cloudflare on Thursday announced the availability of a new service that extends the company’s protection capabilities to gaming, remote access, email, IoT and other types of systems. read more

Cloudflare promises to tend not two, but 65,535 ports in a storm
2018-04-13 00:27

But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…

Cloudflare launches privacy-protecting DNS service
2018-04-03 20:28

If you’ve been offline during the weekend you might have missed Cloudflare announcing a new privacy-oriented consumer DNS service, hosted at the following IP addresses: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. With...

Cloudflare Launches Publicly DNS-Over-HTTPS Service
2018-04-02 17:28

Clouldflare launches DNS-over-HTTPS service called 1.1.1.1 that it says will be a “privacy-first” DNS service for consumers.

Cloudflare Launches Free Secure DNS Service
2018-04-02 13:13

Cloudflare Launches Globally Available Secure Free DNS Resolver Cloudflare launched a new free service, designed to improve both the speed and the security of the internet, on April Fool's Day...

Cloudflare Launches Remote Access to Replace Corporate VPNs
2018-01-18 20:14

Mobile and cloud computing have challenged the concept of perimeter security. There is no longer an easily definable perimeter to defend. VPNs are a traditional, but not ideal solution. Neither...

Cloudflare Acquires Mobile App Specialist Neumob
2017-11-14 13:52

Website performance optimization and security firm Cloudflare has expanded its reach to mobile with the acquisition of Neumob. The agreement brings Cloudflare's global optimization network to...

Cloudflare CTO Goes Inside the Cloudbleed Bug
2017-10-04 11:50

Cloudflare’s chief technology officer was frank and apologetic about February’s Cloudbleed bug during today's Virus Bulletin 2017 keynote.