An August reading list about online security and 2023 attacks landscape
Here is a reading list with 2023 trends, what you need to know about attacks, and a guide on how to stay protected using Cloudflare
Application Security Report: Q2 2023
We are back with a quarterly update of our Application Security report. Read on to learn about new attack trends and insights visible from Cloudflare’s global network
Introducing Cloudflare's 2023 phishing threats report
The 2023 Phishing Threats Report analyzes millions of malicious emails, brand impersonation examples, identity deception and other key attack trends based on email security data from a 12-month period
Wasm core dumps and debugging Rust in Cloudflare Workers
Debugging Rust and Wasm with Cloudflare Workers involves a lot of the good old time-consuming and nerve-wracking printf'ing strategy. What if there’s a better way? This blog is about enabling and using Wasm core dumps and how you can easily debug Rust in Cloudflare Workers
Introducing scheduled deletion for Cloudflare Stream
Easily manage storage with scheduled deletion for Cloudflare Stream, available for live recordings and on-demand video
Debug Queues from the dash: send, list, and ack messages
Today, we are thrilled to share that customers can now debug their Queues directly from the Cloudflare dashboard. This new feature allows customers to send, list, and acknowledge messages in their Queues from the Cloudflare dashboard, enabling a more user-friendly way to interact with their Queues
Introducing per hostname TLS settings — security fit to your needs
Starting today, customers that use Cloudflare’s Advanced Certificate Manager can configure TLS settings on individual hostnames within a domain
Project Cybersafe Schools: Bringing security tools for free to small K-12 school districts in the US
Announced as part of the Back to School Safely: K-12 Cybersecurity Summit at the White House on Aug 7, Proj Cybersafe Schools will support eligible K-12 public school districts with Zero Trust
Unmasking the top exploited vulnerabilities of 2022
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just released a report highlighting the most commonly exploited vulnerabilities of 2022.
Integrate Cloudflare Zero Trust with Datadog Cloud SIEM
Today, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Cloudflare Zero Trust Integration with Datadog
Hardening Workers KV
A deep dive into the recent incidents relating to Workers KV, and how we’re going to fix them
Cloudflare Workers database integration with Upstash
Announcing the new Upstash database integrations for Workers. Now it is easier to use Upstash Redis, Kafka and QStash inside your Worker
Cloudflare Radar's new BGP origin hijack detection system
BGP origin hijacks allow attackers to intercept, monitor, redirect, or drop traffic destined for the victim's networks. We explain how Cloudflare built its BGP hijack detection system, from its design and implementation to its integration on Cloudflare Radar
Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
In this post, we review selected Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare during the second quarter of 2023, supported by traffic graphs from Cloudflare Radar and other internal Cloudflare tools, and grouped by associated cause or common geography
How Cloudflare is staying ahead of the AMD vulnerability known as “Zenbleed”
The Google Information Security Team revealed a new flaw in AMD's Zen 2 processors in a blog post today. The 'Zenbleed' flaw affects the entire Zen 2 product stack, from AMD's EPYC data center processors to the Ryzen 3000 CPUs, and can be exploited to steal sensitive data processed in the CPU,
Measuring the Internet's pulse: trending domains now on Cloudflare Radar
Today, we are improving our Domain Rankings page and adding Trending Domains lists
Protecting data on Apple devices with Cloudflare and Jamf
Our unique partnership offering will enable Jamf customers to easily implement network Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Remote Browser Isolation (RBI), and SaaS Tenancy Controls from Cloudflare to prevent sensitive data loss from their Apple devices
Cloudflare Zaraz steps up: general availability and new pricing
Cloudflare Zaraz has transitioned out of beta and is now generally available to all customers. It is included under the free, paid, and enterprise plans of the Cloudflare Developer Platform. Visit our docs to learn more on our different plans
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q2
Q2 2023 saw an unprecedented escalation in DDoS attack sophistication. Pro-Russian hacktivists REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan joined forces to attack Western sites. Mitel vulnerability exploits surged by a whopping 532%, and attacks on crypto rocketed up by 600%.
Quickly see differences between Zone Versions with Version Comparisons
Quickly compare changes between two Zone Versions with Version Comparisons available now
DLP Exact Data Match beta now available
Cloudflare One now supports exact data match for Data Loss Prevention
How the Cloudflare global network optimizes for system reboots during low-traffic periods
We run a wide fleet of machines on the Cloudflare global network. This post describes how we minimize customer disruption during large-scale machine reboots using math!
The day my ping took countermeasures
Ping developers clearly put some thought into that. I wondered how far they went. Did they handle clock changes in both directions? Are the bad measurements excluded from the final statistics? How do they test the software?
Bring your own CA for client certificate validation with API Shield
API shield customers can now upload their own CA to use for client certificate validation. This ensures that only authorized clients and devices can make requests to your API endpoint or application.
Connection errors in Asia Pacific region on July 9, 2023
On July 9, 2023, users in the Asia Pacific region experienced connection errors due to origin DNS resolution failures to .com and .net TLD nameservers
How Cloudflare Images addressed the aCropalypse vulnerability
Customers using Cloudflare Images or Image Resizing products are protected against the aCropalypse vulnerability.
Cloudflare Zaraz supports JSONata
Discover the seamless integration of Cloudflare Zaraz and JSONata, enabling precise data customization for enhanced workflows. Effortlessly optimize data transmission to providers and APIs with ease. Unlock the power of fine-tuned data today
Recapping Speed Week 2023
Recapping all the announcements made during Speed Week 2023
Lost in transit: debugging dropped packets from negative header lengths
In this post, we'll provide some insight into the process of investigating networking issues and how to begin debugging issues in the kernel using pwru and kprobe tracepoints
A step-by-step guide to transferring domains to Cloudflare
Getting the domain transfer process wrong could mean downtime and disruption. We’ve built a domain transfer checklist to help you quickly and safely transfer your domains to Cloudflare
All the way up to 11: Serve Brotli from origin and Introducing Compression Rules
Today, we're enhancing our support for Brotli compression, enabling end-to-end Brotli compression for web content. Compression plays a vital role in reducing bytes during transfers, ensuring quicker downloads and seamless browsing
Introducing the Cloudflare Radar Internet Quality Page
The new Internet Quality page on Cloudflare Radar provides both country and network (autonomous system) level insight into Internet connection performance (bandwidth) and quality (latency, jitter) over time based on benchmark test data as well as speed.cloudflare.com test results
How we scaled and protected Eurovision 2023 voting with Pages and Turnstile
More than 162 million fans tuned in to the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest, the first year that non-participating countries could also vote. Cloudflare helped scale and protect the voting application based.io, built by once.net using our rapid DNS infrastructure, CDN, Cloudflare Pages and Turnstile
Making Cloudflare Pages the fastest way to serve your sites
Pages is now the fastest way to serve your sites across Netlify, Vercel and many others and we’re so proud
Speeding up APIs with Ricochet for API Gateway
Today we’re announcing Ricochet for API Gateway, the easiest way for Cloudflare customers to achieve faster API responses through automatic, intelligent API response caching
Understanding end user-connectivity and performance with Digital Experience Monitoring, now available in beta
DEX allows administrators to monitor their WARP Deployment and create predefined application tests. Features include live team & device analytics, server and traceroute tests, Synthetic Application Monitoring, and Fleet Status for real-time insights on WARP deployment
Descale your network with Cloudflare’s enhanced Descaler Program
At its core, the Descaler Program helps derisk change. It’s designed to be simple and straightforward, with resources to ensure a smooth transition and supporting technology to ensure the migration achieves your organization's goals
Network performance update: Speed Week 2023
In this post we are going to share the most recent updates, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance.
How we think about Zero Trust Performance
In this blog, we’re going to talk about why end-to-end performance is the most important thing to look at, why other methods like proxy latency and decrypted latency SLAs are insufficient for performance evaluations, and how you can measure your Zero Trust performance like we do
Globally distributed AI and a Constellation update
Today we’re announcing new Constellation features, explain why it’s the first globally distributed AI platform and why deploying your machine learning tasks in our global network is advantageous.
Donning a MASQUE: building a new protocol into Cloudflare WARP
Announcing support for MASQUE, a cutting-edge new protocol for the beta version of our consumer WARP iOS app
Benchmarking dashboard performance
The Cloudflare dashboard is a single page application that houses all of the UI for our wide portfolio of existing products, as well as the new features we're releasing every day
Spotlight on Zero Trust: we're fastest and here's the proof
Cloudflare is the fastest Secure Web Gateway in 42% of testing scenarios, the most of any provider. Cloudflare is 46% faster than Zscaler, 56% faster than Netskope, and 10% faster than Palo Alto for ZTNA, and 64% faster than Zscaler for RBI scenarios
Cloudflare Snippets is now available in alpha
Cloudflare Snippets are available in alpha. Snippets are a simple way of executing a small piece of Javascript on select HTTP requests, using the ruleset engine filtering logic
Part 2: Rethinking cache purge with a new architecture
In this post we’ll be talking about some of the architecture improvements we’ve made so far for Cache Purge and what we’re working on now
It's never been easier to migrate thanks to Cloudflare's new Migration Hub
Today, we are thrilled to relaunch Turpentine, and introduce Cloudflare's new Migration Hub. The Migration Hub serves as a one-stop-shop for all migration needs, featuring brand-new migration guides that bring transparency and simplicity to the process
How Kinsta used Workers and Workers KV to improve cache hit rates by 56%
Kinsta delivers tailored cloud hosting solutions to over 26,000 companies across 128 countries. Learn how they used Workers and Workers KV to improve cache performance and customer performance
Faster website, more customers: Cloudflare Observatory can help your business grow
Today, we are thrilled to unveil the Cloudflare Observatory, our new and enhanced Speed Tab. Cloudflare customers now have access to a suite of powerful tools that simplify performance monitoring and offer enhanced product recommendations
Are you measuring what matters? A fresh look at Time To First Byte
Time To First Byte (TTFB) is not a good way to measure your websites performance. In this blog we’ll cover what TTFB is a good indicator of, what it's not great for, and what you should be using instead
Introducing Timing Insights: new performance metrics via our GraphQL API
If you care about the performance of your website or APIs, it’s critical to understand why things are slow. Today we're introducing new analytics tools to help you understand what is contributing to "Time to First Byte" (TTFB) of Cloudflare and your origin
INP. Get ready for the new Core Web Vital
On May 10, 2023, Google announced that INP will replace FID in the Core Web Vitals in March 2024. The Core Web Vitals play a role in the Google Search algorithm. So website owners who care about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) should prepare for the change
Introducing HTTP/3 Prioritization
Today, Cloudflare is very excited to announce full support for HTTP/3 Extensible Priorities, a new standard that speeds the loading of webpages by up to 37%
How to use Cloudflare Observatory for performance experiments
Introducing Cloudflare's Performance Experiments in Observatory: Safely test code, improve website speed, and minimize risk
Argo Smart Routing for UDP: speeding up gaming, real-time communications and more
Today, Cloudflare is super excited to announce that we’re bringing traffic acceleration to customer’s UDP traffic. Now, you can improve the latency of UDP-based applications like video games, voice calls, and video meetings by up to 17%
Smart Hints make code-free performance simple
We’re excited to announce we’re making Early Hints and Fetch Priorities automatic using the power of Cloudflare’s network
Introducing Low-Latency HLS Support for Cloudflare Stream
Broadcast live to websites and applications with less than 10 second latency with Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS), now in beta with Cloudflare Stream
Every request, every microsecond: scalable machine learning at Cloudflare
We'll describe the technical strategies that have enabled us to expand the number of machine learning features and models, all while substantially reducing the processing time for each HTTP request on our network
How Orpheus automatically routes around bad Internet weather
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet for everyone, and Orpheus plays an important role in realizing this mission everyday.
Cloudflare's global network grows to 300 cities and ever closer to end users with connections to 12,000 networks
We are pleased to announce that Cloudflare is now connected to over 12,000 Internet networks in over 300 cities around the world
How Cloudflare runs machine learning inference in microseconds
How we optimized bot management’s machine learning model execution
