
In Q3, DDoS attacks increased by 111% YoY, Cloudflare auto-mitigated a 2.5 Tbps attack targeting a Minecraft server as multi-terabit scale DDoS attacks become increasingly frequent. Read more in our 2022 Q3 DDoS Report

Integrate two-factor authentication into your Express.js app by building an application that authenticates users using password-based authentication and OTPs powered by the Twilio Verify service.
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Alexander Godwin·October 7, 2022Security 
Today, we’re excited to announce Total TLS — a one-click feature that will issue individual TLS certificates for every subdomain in our customer’s domains

Cross-platform apps built with the popular Flutter toolkit can now benefit from Dependabot alerts.
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Eric Tooley, Courtney Claessens·October 6, 2022Security 
Learn how you can seamlessly define trusted custom secret patterns to detect secrets unique to your organization with GitHub Advanced Security.
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Brittany O'Shea, Mariam Sulakian·October 5, 2022Security 
Cloudflare's 12th birthday week: 36 announcements ranging from SIM cards to post quantum encryption via hardware keys and so much more. Here’s a review of everything we announced this week
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John Graham Cumming·October 3, 2022Security 
Today we’re excited to announce that we will soon be offering a zero-configuration option for security on Cloudflare. If we find that we can automatically upgrade the security connection between Cloudflare and a user’s origin, we will

Now that Cloudflare CASB is Generally Available, let’s take a look at how users have been leveraging other Cloudflare Zero Trust products with CASB, starting with Gateway

Adopting a phishing resistant second factor, like a YubiKey with FIDO2, is the number one way to prevent phishing attacks. Cloudflare has used phishing resistant second factors only since February 2021, and these were the steps we took to accomplish that.
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Evan Johnson, Derek Pitts·September 29, 2022Security 
Announcing a new collaboration with Yubico, to remove any barriers for organizations of any size to deploying hardware security keys.
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Davidharnett·September 29, 2022Security 
There’s always a cat and mouse game between hackers and security companies. New attacks try to weaponize website links after emails have been delivered to mailboxes, and Email Link Isolation is here to revolutionize protection against those attacks.
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Joao, Tim Obezuk·September 29, 2022Security 
Starting today, Free, Pro and Business plans include Rate Limiting rules without additional charges.

In this article, Wix security experts share ten “security by design” principles that emerged from their work in keeping the Wix platform secure. If you’re a developer, these tried-and-true principles can help you build your own secure applications.
WSWix Security Team·September 29, 2022Security 
Learn best practices on how to roll out centrally managed, developer-centric application security with a third party CI/CD system like Jenkins or ADO.
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Kevin Alwell·September 28, 2022Security 
We’ve been defending customers from Internet of Things botnets for years now, and it’s time to turn the tides: we’re bringing the same security behind our Zero Trust platform to IoT

We’re announcing the first Zero Trust SIM: the next major part of Cloudflare One, combining both software and hardware layers to rethink mobile device security for organizations
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Silverlock, James Allworth·September 26, 2022Security 
On September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations.
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Alexis Wales·September 21, 2022Security 
Cloudflare started using Area 1 in 2020 and proceeded with acquiring the company in 2022. We were most impressed how phishing, responsible for 90+% of cyberattacks, basically became a non-issue overnight when we deployed Area 1. But our vision is much bigger than preventing phishing attacks

Connect and scan your third-party SaaS apps for file leaks, misconfigurations, and Shadow IT, all in just a few clicks. Cloudflare CASB now Generally Available

Cloudflare’s new Adaptive DDoS Protection system learns your unique traffic patterns and constantly adapts to protect you against sophisticated DDoS attacks

Cloudflare’s Advanced DDoS Alerts provide tailored and actionable notifications in real-time

Dependabot alerts can give you the ability to secure your project by keeping dependency-based vulnerabilities out of your code. Here are some tips to more efficiently prioritize and take action on your alerts, so you can get back to building.
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Erin Havens·September 19, 2022Security 
We’re taking a look at two commonly-used security tools and detailing how they can help secure your projects.
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Brittany O'Shea·September 9, 2022Security 
Live on September 15, 2022, with talks by industry experts in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, on topics including software development, security, technical project management, community, open source, professional development and best practices.
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Andrea Griffiths·September 6, 2022Security 
Register now to attend GitHub Universe virtually or in-person at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on November 9-10.

Today we are excited to announce thresholds for our Security Event Alerts: a new and improved way of detecting anomalous spikes of security events on your Internet properties. By introducing a threshold, we are able to make alerts more accurate and only notify you when it truly matters
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Kristina Galicova·August 30, 2022Security 
We are releasing our internal fork of PgBouncer, filled with authentication bug fixes and new features around per user and connection pool isolation

Most users tend to forget their passwords, so create experiences that will always be valuable for people when they use your products. In this article, we’ll discuss how to implement a password-reset feature with Next.js dynamic routes while prioritizing the UX.

GitHub Discussions and Audit Log Streaming, new automation features, and security enhancements are available now in GitHub Enterprise Server 3.6.
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Melody Mileski·August 17, 2022Security 
Okta is an identity manager, with features such as single sign-on and multi-factor authentication. Okta can be used to secure the identities of customers and workforces. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to use Okta for authentication in a React application. We’ll understand the core concepts of Okta, use cases, and why you should use it in your next React application.

Yesterday, August 8, 2022, Twilio shared that they’d been compromised by a targeted phishing attack. Around the same time as Twilio was attacked, we saw an attack with very similar characteristics also targeting Cloudflare’s employees

Cloudflare for SaaS offers a suite of Cloudflare products and add-ons to improve the security, performance, and reliability of SaaS providers. Now, the Cloudflare for SaaS documentation outlines how to optimize it in order to meet your goals

GitHub Actions gives teams access to powerful, native CI/CD capabilities right next to their code hosted in GitHub. Starting today, GitHub will send a Dependabot alert for vulnerable GitHub Actions, making it even easier to stay up to date and fix security vulnerabilities in your actions workflows.

Supply chain attacks exploit our implicit trust of open source to hurt developers and our customers. Read our proposal for how npm will significantly reduce supply chain attacks by signing packages with Sigstore.
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Justin Hutchings·August 8, 2022Security 
Today, we’re expanding access to the GitHub security overview! All GitHub Enterprise customers now have access to the security overview, not just those with GitHub Advanced Security. Additionally, all users within an enterprise can now access the security overview, not just admins and security managers.
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Brittany O'Shea, Kelly Arwine·August 8, 2022Security 
From hosting private packages in a private repository to tightening your security profile with GITHUB_TOKEN, here are five simple ways you can streamline your workflow with GitHub Packages.
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Kristina Heidinger·August 4, 2022Security 
Nobody wakes up in the morning hoping to finally identify crosswalks and fire hydrants that day. Yet every day, we prompt users through hoops and loops to sign up and log in. Let’s fix that. Authentication is everywhere, and sometimes it’s extremely frustrating, and sometimes it’s seamless. Let’s explore a few patterns to create experience that are a bit more seamless than frustrating.
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Vitaly Friedman·August 4, 2022Security 
TL;DR The (SDLC) has always been followed by functional testing to ensure software solutions have all the necessary features and functions. Because of the growing number of cyberattacks, software development stakeholders have been forced to implement security testing as the main track in SDLC to prevent vulnerabilities and flaws in applications or software (assets). A software security assessment
SESpotify Engineering·August 1, 2022Security 
At Meta, our messaging apps help billions of people around the world stay connected to those who matter most to them. This scale brings potential threats from criminals and hackers, so we have a responsibility to keep people and their data safe. We’re sharing a set of principles to ensure that security is central to […]

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers.

New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
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Myles Borins, Monish Mohan·July 26, 2022Security 
At Meta, our Bug Bounty program is an important element of our “defense-in-depth” approach to security. Our internal product security teams investigate every bug submission to assess its maximum potential impact so that we can always reward external researchers based on both the bug they found and our further internal research assessment of where else […]

Our inaugural Bug Bulletin report […]

We named the botnet that launched the 26M rps (requests per second) DDoS attack "Mantis" as it is also like the Mantis shrimp, small but very powerful

Location-Aware DDoS Protection is now available in beta for Cloudflare Enterprise customers that are subscribed to the Advanced DDoS service
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Omer, Julien Desgats·July 11, 2022Security 
Welcome to our 2022 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network

New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph.
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Jose Palafox, Brittany O'Shea·July 1, 2022Security 
Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly.

Learn how to patch Linux security vulnerabilities without rebooting the hardware and how to tighten the security of your Linux operating system with eBPF Linux Security Module

In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-1134, a type confusion in Chrome that I reported in March 2022, which allows remote code execution (RCE) in the renderer sandbox of Chrome by a single visit to a malicious site. I’ll also look at some past vulnerabilities of this type and some implementation details of inline cache in V8, the JavaScript engine of Chrome.

The recent changes to improve protocol security on GitHub.com are now coming to GitHub Enterprise Server, starting with version 3.6.
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Brian M. Carlson·June 28, 2022Security 
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.
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Madison Ficorilli·June 27, 2022Security 
How Cloudflare’s security team implemented Zero Trust controls
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Noelle, Tim Obezuk·June 24, 2022Security 
Cloudflare recently won the Security Software Innovator award in recognition of our transformative technology in collaboration with Microsoft that makes work easier for our mutual customers

Security teams that rely on Cloudflare Access can verify a user’s Apple device before they access a sensitive application — no additional software required

Today, we’re excited to announce Cloudflare One Observability. Cloudflare One Observability will help customers work across Cloudflare One applications to troubleshoot network connectivity, security policies, and performance issues to ensure a consistent experience for employees everywhere

Traditional SEG architectures were built for the email environments of yesterday. Learn how to seamlessly transition to cloud-native, preemptive email security

As part of our exciting journey to integrate Area 1 into our broader Zero Trust suite, Cloudflare Gateway customers can soon enable Remote Browser Isolation for email links. With Email Link Isolation, gain an unmatched level of protection from sophisticated multi-channel email-based attacks

Expand the completeness of your dependency graph by using the dependency submission API, which will create more comprehensive alerts on supply chain vulnerabilities
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Courtney Claessens·June 17, 2022Security 
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-22057, a use-after-free in the Qualcomm gpu kernel driver, to gain root and disable SELinux from the untrusted app sandbox on a Samsung Z flip 3. I’ll look at various mitigations that are implemented on modern Android devices and how they affect the exploit.