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Azure extends DDoS attack protection down to small business users, for a fee

Microsoft moves IP Protection into public preview

Software22 Nov 2022 | 2

Robin Banks crooks back at the table with fresh phish from Russia

Phishing-as-a-service group's toolset now includes ways to get around MFA

Research08 Nov 2022 | 1

It's 2058. A quantum computer is just another decade away. Still, you curse Cloudflare

Assuming this Kyber TLS stuff works as expected

Security03 Oct 2022 | 3

Cloudflare's invisible CAPTCHA works by probing browsers with JavaScript

Beta-grade widget respects your privacy, we're promised

Software28 Sep 2022 | 31

Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site

Escalation of targeted threats is an 'emergency' that required 'dangerous' decision 'we are not comfortable with,' says CEO

PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2022 | 156

Cloudflare: Someone tried to pull the Twilio phishing tactic on us too

Attack was foiled by content delivery network's hardware security keys

Security10 Aug 2022 | 10

Student crashes Cloudflare beta party, redirects email, bags a bug bounty

Simple to exploit, enough to pocket $3,000

Research04 Aug 2022 | 8

Akamai: We stopped record DDoS attack in Europe

A 'sophisticated, global botnet' held an Eastern European biz under siege over 30 days

Cyber-crime01 Aug 2022 | 12

Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds

Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg?

Off-Prem26 Jul 2022 | 116

Meet Mantis – the tiny shrimp that launched 3,000 DDoS attacks

Watch out for deadly pinchers after that record-breaking attack

Cyber-crime15 Jul 2022 | 7

Cloudflare menaces virtual desktops with isolated browser access to internal networks

Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions

Virtualization27 Jun 2022 | 3

Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive

Opinion Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back

PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 23

Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet

'Network engineers walked over each other's changes'

Off-Prem21 Jun 2022 | 57

Google, EFF back Cloudflare in row over pirate streams

Ban akin to 'ordering a telephone company to prevent a person from having conversations' over its lines

Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 13

Cloudflare says it thwarted record-breaking HTTPS DDoS flood

26m requests a second? Not legit traffic, not even Bill Gates doing $1m giveaways could manage that

CSO14 Jun 2022 | 2

Man gets two years in prison for selling 200,000 DDoS hits

Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds

Security14 Jun 2022 | 3

Big Tech shrank the internet while growing its own power

Comment Classic internet ideas matter less now that CDNs and private networks dominate traffic

Networks11 May 2022 | 8

Cloudflare stomps huge DDoS attack on crypto platform

At 15.3 million requests per second, the assault was the largest HTTPS blitz on record lasting 15 seconds

Security28 Apr 2022 | 15

Developer adoption is our priority, profits second, Cloudflare tells bankers

We seem to give away stuff for free at just the right time, says CFO

PaaS + IaaS10 Mar 2022 | 7

Cloudflare, Akamai: Why we're not pulling out of Russia

Yanking connectivity would do more harm than good, they say

PaaS + IaaS08 Mar 2022 | 44

Cloudflare buys anti-phishing business Area 1 for $162m

Bolstering email defences to keep cybercrooks at bay

Security24 Feb 2022 | 3

Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare

Updated Allege content delivery network enables piracy

Legal01 Feb 2022 | 25

Cloudflare signals big Asian push, starting in Singapore

Seeks salespeople focused on expansion – and casinos – and adds a trio of senior managers

Networks24 Jan 2022 | 1

TikTok tops Google to win Cloudflare’s 2021 traffic ratings

Other Chinese properties also doing very well

Off-Prem21 Dec 2021 | 8

Resistance is ... cheap? Cloudflare, Mandiant, and pals form incident response 'n' cyber insurance borg

Trust us with everything, croons septuple-strong partnership

Security09 Dec 2021 | 4

Blogfight! Blogfight! Blogfight! Fastly flames Cloudflare's serverless stats

We're faster than you. No you're not. Are too. No way! Yes way … can someone take this pair to the principal's office?

PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2021 |

AWS chops data transfer fees by massive extension of free tier – 2 months after rival previewed R2 Storage

Customer: 'I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks'

Off-Prem25 Nov 2021 | 7

Judge rejects claims Cloudflare should be held responsible for customers' copyright infringement

'We don’t host the content of the websites at issue'

PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2021 | 46

Cloudflare R2 Storage service takes direct aim at Amazon S3, hits on price and portability

Updated Networking biz says it won't charge for most egress fees, pledges to undercut

Storage28 Sep 2021 | 4

Cloudflare says Intel is not inside its next-gen servers – Ice Lake melted its energy budget

64-core AMD Epycs win again as upgrade delivers performance boost without slurping more 'leccy

Systems01 Sep 2021 | 19

Razer ponders how to fix installer that grants admin powers if you plug in a mouse

In brief Plus: Cloudflare tackles huge DDoS attack, Apple and CSAM, and more

Security23 Aug 2021 | 36

Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data club

Updated Lower your prices and play nicer, CDN goliath suggests

PaaS + IaaS24 Jul 2021 | 15

Cloudflare network outage disrupts Discord, Shopify

And its CAPTCHA alternative challenged by security researcher

Off-Prem11 Jun 2021 | 7

Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages

Like, you wouldn't filter out pages by Black people, right?

Networks21 May 2021 | 89

Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs

Poll Testing dongle-driven ‘Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood’ and WebAuthn as alternative

Security14 May 2021 | 107

Cloudflare offers $100,000 for prior art to nuke networking patents a troll has accused it of ripping off

Picking intellectual property fights with internet backbone biz seldom ends well

Networks26 Apr 2021 | 24

Cloudflare reheats network-as-a-service buffet with WAN plan

Try, try, try to understand, it's a Magic WAN

PaaS + IaaS22 Mar 2021 | 2

In the old days, coups started by seizing TV and radio stations. Now they crimp the internet at 3am

And yes, that's what happened in Myanmar this week

Networks02 Feb 2021 | 19

Cloudflare, Dropbox, Reddit and friends launch Section 230 compromise coalition as change seems inevitable

De-FAAMG'd tech outfits fear being steamrolled

Personal Tech15 Dec 2020 | 1

Oblivious DoH, OPAQUE passwords, Encrypted Client Hello: Cloudflare's protocol proposals to protect privacy

'Adopting these may have legal and policy implications'

Security08 Dec 2020 | 28

QUIC! IETF sets November deadline for last comments on TCP-killer spawned by Google and Cloudflare

Next comes all the joy and laughter of the standards process

Networks26 Oct 2020 | 13

Your web browser running remotely in Cloudflare's cloud. That's it. That's the story

Social distancing isn't just for surviving the pandemic – now this internet giant can add it to your browser

SaaS15 Oct 2020 | 20

Cloudflare floats cloud grand unification theory based on zero-trust access and security

The internet was supposed to get rid of intermediaries. How'd that work out?

SaaS14 Oct 2020 | 10

Internet Archive's way cool Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over pact

And Cloudflare customers get way better availability

Networks17 Sep 2020 | 7

CenturyLink L3 outage knocks out web giants and 3.5% of all internet traffic

Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs

Networks31 Aug 2020 | 25

Cloudflare's new serverless platform lets its Workers run for 15 minutes before giving them the boot

Interview Instant startup, expanded execution, and more programming languages

SaaS27 Jul 2020 | 3

Finally, made it to the weekend, time to breathe, relax, and... Cloudflare's taken down a chunk of the web

Updated DNS provider goes dark amid bad routing, world+dog goes through nine minutes of terror

Networks17 Jul 2020 | 17

QUIC, dig in: Microsoft open-sources MsQuic, its implementation of Google-spawned TCP-killer QUIC

The sequel to Pac-Man was Ms. Pac-Man. And Microsoft’s QUIC library is called MsQuic

Networks04 May 2020 | 11

Free-speech-loving Cloudflare hooks up with China’s biggest retailer JD

The spice must flow seems to be the gist of it, along with JD's cloudy ambitions

SaaS30 Apr 2020 |

Cloudflare goes retro with COBOL delivery service. Older coders: Who's laughing now? Turns out we're still vital

Dust off your COBOL code and give it new life in WebAssembly

SaaS16 Apr 2020 | 123

Cloudflare outage caused by techie pulling out the wrong cables

Single point of failure, imprecise instructions and not enough labels are a bad, bad, mix

Networks16 Apr 2020 | 90

Cloudflare dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, moves to hCaptcha as free ride ends (and something about privacy)

You want this service at Cloudflare's scale? Then maybe you might want to pay for it

Security09 Apr 2020 | 52

Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'

Updated For a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet

Security01 Apr 2020 | 95

Cloudflare is over the moon because its pro-privacy 1.1.1.1 DNS service got a clean bill of health from everyone's favorite auditor – KPMG

Proved for all sites, proved for all sites, there is nothing else we can do

Networks31 Mar 2020 | 21

Firefox, you know you tapped Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS? In January, it briefly knackered two root servers at the heart of the internet

Updated Probe raises serious questions about private v public web management

Networks26 Feb 2020 | 36

Cloudflare buys browser isolation biz S2 Systems in bid to realize Sun's network computing vision at long last

Infrastructure protector looks to defend people and devices

Software07 Jan 2020 | 8