
In order to breach trust and trick unsuspecting victims, threat actors overwhelmingly use topical events as lures. The news about what happened at Silicon Valley Bank is the latest event to watch out for and stay vigilant against opportunistic phishing campaigns using SVB as the lure

Cloudflare CASB can now integrate and scan Atlassian products, Confluence and Jira, for critical security issues, like misconfigurations, data exposure, and third-party app risks. Start scanning in just a few clicks!

Cloudflare Access and Ping Identity offer a powerful solution for organizations looking to implement Zero Trust security controls to protect their applications and data.

Starting today, using Page Shield, Cloudflare’s client side security solution, you can ensure only vetted and secure JavaScript is being executed by your user’s browsers. Stop unwanted JavaScript and keep your end user data safe with Page Shield policies.
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Michael Tremante·March 13, 2023Security 
We’re expanding the phishing protections available to Cloudflare One customers by automatically identifying—and blocking—so-called “confusable” domains.
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Alexandra, Patrick·March 13, 2023Security 
Phishing attacks come in all sorts of ways to fool people. Email is definitely the most common, but there are others. Here are some tips to help you catch these scams before you fall for them.

Mutual TLS is used to secure a range of network services and applications: APIs, web applications, microservices, databases and IoT devices. With mTLS support for Workers you can use Workers to authenticate to any service secured by mTLS directly!
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Tanushree, Dina·March 13, 2023Security 
Welcome to Security Week 2023. This week we’ll demonstrate how Cloudflare is making it as easy as possible to shift from protecting applications, to protecting employees, and making sure they are protected everywhere.

Learn about using GitHub Advanced Security alerts with vulnerability management tools. Check out the integrations and learn about how to get started.
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Alexander De Michieli, Griffin Ashe·March 10, 2023Security 
In a world where software and hardware is ubiquitous, GitHub can help enable secure development for mission-critical embedded systems.
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Chris Reddington, Clay Nelson·March 9, 2023Security 
On March 13, we will officially begin rolling out our initiative to require all developers who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Read on to learn about what the process entails and how you can help secure the software supply chain with 2FA.
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Laura Paine, Hirsch Singhal·March 9, 2023Security 
Multi-repository variant analysis lets you scale security research across thousands of repositories, giving you a powerful tool to find and respond to newly discovered vulnerabilities.
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Walker Chabbott, James Fletcher·March 9, 2023Security 
Learn how teams can leverage the power of GitHub Advanced Security’s code scanning and GitHub Actions to integrate the right security testing tools at the right time.
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Jose Palafox, Daniel Shanahan·March 8, 2023Security 
Join us virtually on March 28-31 for GitHub Galaxy, a global enterprise event focused on improving efficiency, security, and developer productivity.

With updates to GitHub Actions, repositories, and GitHub Advanced Security, this new version of GitHub Enterprise Server is focused on bringing the best developer experience to companies.
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David Jarzebowski, Melody Mileski·March 7, 2023Security 
The GitHub Security Lab audited DataHub, an open source metadata platform, and discovered several vulnerabilities in the platform’s authentication and authorization modules. These vulnerabilities could have enabled an attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to sensitive data stored on the platform.

Learn how to enable developer productivity and collaboration while staying secure and compliant. Stay compliant without slowing down your business. From security to CI/CD, automate every step of your software workflow—so your developers can stay focused on what matters most: building.
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Mark Paulsen, Chris Reddington·February 24, 2023Security 
CVE-2022-25664, a vulnerability in the Qualcomm Adreno GPU, can be used to leak large amounts of information to a malicious Android application. Learn more about how the vulnerability can be used to leak information in both the user space and kernel space level of pages, and how the GitHub Security Lab used the kernel space information leak to construct a KASLR bypass.

Implementing Zero Trust can be challenging, and efforts may stall. The need for a Chief Zero Trust Officer (CZTO) is driven by the increasing importance of Zero Trust security in the face of escalating cyber attacks.
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John Engates·February 21, 2023Security 
This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps
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Omer, Julien Desgats·February 13, 2023Security 
Explore how GitHub Advanced Security can help address several of the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities

Over the past few days, Cloudflare, as well as other sources, have observed healthcare organizations targeted by a pro-Russian hacktivist group claiming to be Killnet.

In the Linux kernel before 6.1.6, a NULL pointer dereference bug in the traffic control subsystem allows an unprivileged user to trigger a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted traffic control configuration that is set up with "tc qdisc" and "tc class" commands.

Using the story of Geo Key Manager v2 as an example, let’s re-imagine access control for distributed systems using a variant of public-key cryptography, called attribute-based encryption.

Object Graph Notation Language (OGNL) is a popular, Java-based, expression language used in popular frameworks and applications, such as Apache Struts and Atlassian Confluence. Learn more about bypassing certain OGNL injection protection mechanisms including those used by Struts and Atlassian Confluence, as well as different approaches to analyzing this form of protection so you can harden similar

This story looks at the opportunity Dev Degree gave me, the challenges I overcame, and the weaknesses that turned out to be strengths. If you’re thinking about a career in tech, but don’t think you have the stuff for it, this story is for you.
SEShopify Engineering·January 26, 2023Security 
Enhancing the Arm Secure Boot chain to improve platform security on modern systems.
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Derek Chamorro, Ryan Chow·January 25, 2023Security 
Slack launched GovSlack in July 2022. With GovSlack, government agencies, and those they work with, can enable their teams to seamlessly collaborate in their digital headquarters, while keeping security and compliance at the forefront. Using GovSlack includes the following benefits: Supports key government security standards, such as FedRAMP High, DoD IL4, and ITAR Runs in…
AGArchie Gunasekara·January 24, 2023Security 
We’re excited to share the newest addition to our GitHub Bug Bounty Program!
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Jill Moné-Corallo·January 23, 2023Security 
It turns out that the first “all Google” phone includes a non-Google bug. Learn about the details of CVE-2022-38181, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU. Join me on my journey through reporting the vulnerability to the Android security team, and the exploit that used this vulnerability to gain arbitrary kernel code execution and root on a Pixel 6 from an Android app.

How Dependabot integrated with npm to address security vulnerabilities on transitive dependencies and increase the likelihood of success for JavaScript security updates by 40%.

GitHub now tells you whether GitHub tokens found by secret scanning are active so you can prioritize and escalate remediation efforts.
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Mariam Sulakian·January 19, 2023Security 
Learn about all the new products, partnerships, and innovations Cloudflare announced during CIO Week to help organizations modernize their IT and security.
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James Chang, Corey Mahan·January 13, 2023Security 
As CIOs navigate the complexities of stitching together multiple solutions, we are extending our collaboration with Microsoft to create one of the best Zero Trust solutions available.

Dependabot is getting a little smarter—and, a little quieter—by reducing bot-based noise from repositories based on your interaction with Dependabot.
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Eric Tooley, Erin Havens·January 12, 2023Security 
Customers can leverage the power of Email Security and Cloudflare One to prevent data loss in their corporate network.
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Ayush, Noelle·January 11, 2023Security 
Protect sensitive data on any Access app for any user on any device.
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Tim Obezuk, Kenny·January 11, 2023Security 
Discovering passwords in our codebase is probably one of our worst fears. But what if you didn’t need passwords at all, and could deploy to your cloud provider another way? In this post, we explore how you can use OpenID Connect to trust your cloud provider, enabling you to deploy easily, securely and safely, while minimizing the operational overhead associated with secrets (for example, key rotat
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Chris Reddington·January 11, 2023Security 
In Q4, Cloudflare mitigated millions of DDoS attacks. Attack durations increase, volumetric attacks surged, and ransom DDoS attacks persist. Travel & events industries were hit hardest and over 90% of traffic to Chinese Internet properties were L3/4 DDoS attacks. Read more on our recent report.

Security and IT administrators can now bring their own custom certificates to encrypt user side connections for Zero Trust

This article is Eric Burel’s attempt at making the implementation of authentication less obscure. You’ll learn about tokens, authorization, CORS, credentials, HTTP headers, and such.

This CIO Week we’ll demonstrate how Cloudflare is helping CIOs keep data, devices and employees both safe and fast across hybrid and remote environments. We’ll show how Cloudflare accelerates digital transformation and modernizes networking and security towards a Zero Trust model
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Corey Mahan, Juan·January 8, 2023Security 
Today, we’re making the job of application security teams easier, by providing a content scanning engine integrated with our Web Application Firewall (WAF), so that malicious files being uploaded by end users, never reach origin servers in the first place
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Michael Tremante·January 4, 2023Security 
Learn about the design behind, and solutions to, several of GitHub’s CTF challenge for Ekoparty’s 2022 event!
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Logan MacLaren, Jorge Rosillo, Antonio Morales·December 30, 2022Security 
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers.
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Laura Lindeman·December 29, 2022Security 
Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™ study dives into how GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security help businesses drive ROI, increase developer productivity, and save time on developer onboarding.

GitHub Enterprise has evolved to support the needs of enterprise administrators, corporate security teams, and individual developers who contribute to open source.
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Jessi Moths, Charlene McKeown·December 20, 2022Security 
Our engineering and security teams do some incredible work. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left.

Deployment protection on all plans - Secure your deployment previews and create shareable links to share with collaborators

A conversation with the small, but mighty web team about why they made Figma files their homepage, and how they unintentionally threw the Figma party of the year.

GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub.
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Mariam Sulakian, Zain Malik·December 15, 2022Security 
With just one click, admins in GitHub Advanced Security organizations can protect their custom patterns on push.
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Mariam Sulakian, Zain Malik·December 15, 2022Security 
Concerns over online privacy and security are nothing new. In this article, Suzanne Scacca explores how the right CSV importer can help businesses better prioritize user security.
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Suzanne Scacca·December 15, 2022Security 
Cloudflare for Government expands Cloudflare’s ability to protect and secure the Public Sector

GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Learn more about our approach, when we’ll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA.
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John Swanson·December 14, 2022Security 
Cloudflare email security tool worked hard in the 2022 midterm elections to ensure that the email inboxes of those seeking office were secure.

We are excited to share that we have grown our offering under the Athenian Project to include Cloudflare’s Area 1 email security suite to help state and local governments protect against a broad

Security Analytics gives you a security lens across all of your HTTP traffic, not only mitigated requests, allowing you to focus on what matters most: traffic deemed malicious but potentially not mitigated.
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Xmflsct, Nick Downie·December 9, 2022Security 
Today we are making the WAF smarter by increasing availability of our new machine learning powered enhancement, the WAF Attack Score!

AppSec expert Niroshan Rajadurai says putting developers at the center of everything will enable you to meet your security goals.