Security News

Cloudflare Gets Transparent on DNS Resolver Outage
2018-06-04 19:17

It’s a cautionary tale for those coding the complex algorithms that go into automated mitigation.

Cloudflare mistakes own 1.1.1.1 DNS for DDoS attack
2018-06-04 10:49

When is a DDoS attack not a DDoS attack? When it's caused by your own recently-launched DNS service.

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, a bank heist in Canada, and more
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, and a bank heist in Canada
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

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.