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A safer Internet with Cloudflare: free threat intelligence, analytics, and new threat detections

2024-09-24

Today, we are taking some big steps forward in our mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare is giving everyone free access to 10+ different website and network security products and features....

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A safer Internet with Cloudflare: free threat intelligence, analytics, and new threat detections

Cloudflare partners with Internet Service Providers and network equipment providers to deliver a safer browsing experience to millions of homes

2024-09-24

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Cloudflare is extending the use of our public DNS resolver through partnering with ISPs and network providers to deliver a safer browsing experience directly to families. Join us in protecting every Internet user from unsafe content with the click of a button, powered by 1.1.1.1 for Families....

Automatically generating Cloudflare’s Terraform provider

2024-09-24

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The Cloudflare Terraform provider used to be manually maintained. With the help of our existing OpenAPI code generation pipeline, we’re now automatically generating the provider for better endpoint and attribute coverage, faster updates when new products are announced and a new API documentation site to top it all off. Read on to see how we pulled it all together....

Cloudflare helps verify the security of end-to-end encrypted messages by auditing key transparency for WhatsApp

2024-09-24

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Cloudflare is now verifying WhatsApp’s Key Transparency audit proofs to ensure the security of end-to-end encrypted messaging conversations without having to manually check QR codes. We are publishing the results of the proof verification to https://dash.key-transparency.cloudflare.com for independent researchers and security experts to compare against WhatsApp’s. Cloudflare does not have access to underlying public key material or message metadata as part of this infrastructure....

Introducing Ephemeral IDs: a new tool for fraud detection

2024-09-23

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As the Internet evolves, Turnstile does too. Introducing Ephemeral IDs — a new dimension in detecting fraudulent activity, bot or human, that links behavior to a specific client instead of an IP address. This makes Turnstile better for everyone, everywhere. ...

Network performance update: Birthday Week 2024

2024-09-23

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Since June 2021, we’ve been measuring and ranking our network performance against the top global networks in the world. We use this data to improve our performance, and to share the results of those initiatives. In this post, we’re going to share with you how network performance has changed since our last post in March 2024, and discuss the tools and processes we are using to assess network performance. ...

Start auditing and controlling the AI models accessing your content

2024-09-23

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Cloudflare customers on any plan can now audit and control how AI models access the content on their site. ...

Making zone management more efficient with batch DNS record updates

2024-09-23

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In response to customer demand, we now support the ability to DELETE, PATCH, PUT and POST multiple DNS records in a single API call, enabling more efficient and reliable zone management. ...

Cloudflare’s 2024 Annual Founders’ Letter

2024-09-22

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Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. This week we celebrate our fourteenth birthday...

Removing uncertainty through "what-if" capacity planning

2024-09-20

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Cloudflare’s Capacity Planning team discusses planning for “what-if” type scenarios, and how they’ve introduced a new “Scenario Planner” system to quickly model hypothetical future changes...

Cloudflare incident on September 17, 2024

2024-09-20

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On September 17, 2024, during planned routine maintenance, Cloudflare stopped announcing 15 IPv4 prefixes, affecting some Business plan websites for approximately one hour. During this time, IPv4 traffic for these customers would not have reached Cloudflare and users attempting to connect to websites using addresses within those prefixes would have received errors. ...

How Cloudflare is helping domain owners with the upcoming Entrust CA distrust by Chrome and Mozilla

2024-09-19

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Chrome and Mozilla will stop trusting Entrust’s public TLS certificates issued after November 2024 due to concerns about Entrust’s compliance with security standards. In response, Entrust is partnering with SSL.com to continue providing trusted certificates. Cloudflare will support SSL.com as a CA, simplifying certificate management for customers using Entrust by automating issuance and renewals....

Protecting APIs from abuse using sequence learning and variable order Markov chains

2024-09-12

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At Cloudflare, we protect customer APIs from abuse. This is no easy task, as abusive traffic can take different forms, from giant DDoS attacks to low-and-slow credential stuffing campaigns. We now address this challenge in a new way: by looking outside typical volumetric measures and using statistical machine learning to find important API client request sequences....

How the Harris-Trump US presidential debate influenced Internet traffic

2024-09-11

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See how the first 2024 US presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump influenced Internet traffic patterns compared to the Biden-Trump debate. We also review email trends and observed attack activity....

Customers get increased integration with Cloudflare Email Security and Zero Trust through expanded partnership with CrowdStrike

2024-09-11

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This post explains how our integrations with CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM allow customers to identify and investigate risky user behavior and analyze data combined with other log sources to uncover hidden threats....

A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time

2024-09-10

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Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it....

Bringing insights into TCP resets and timeouts to Cloudflare Radar

2024-09-05

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New TCP resets and timeouts dataset on Cloudflare Radar surfaces connection tampering, scanning, DoS attacks, and more....

A global assessment of third-party connection tampering

2024-09-05

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Cloudflare brings visibility to the practice of connection tampering as observed from our global network....

Making progress on routing security: the new White House roadmap

2024-09-02

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On September 3, 2024, the White House published a report on Internet routing security. We’ll talk about what that means and how you can help....

Exploring Internet and security trends during the 2024 U.S. Democratic National Convention

2024-08-23

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This analysis highlights the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s impact on Internet traffic and security, with spikes in interest for sites related to Kamala Harris and the Democrats, as well as news sites, plus pre-convention attacks on political organizations....