Cloudflare tries to reduce attacks on LLMs with new firewall
Cloudflare is developing "Firewall for AI". The solution specifically addresses security issues that arise for companies getting started with AI. In addition, new security solutions are coming to address risks specific to a company.
LLMs and AI solutions can be found in more and more products a... Read more
Cloudflare is extending the lifespan of its servers
Cloudflare is going to extend the lifespan of its current server farm. This will subsequently save on operational costs.
Cloudflare is going to extend the lifespan of its server farm. Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert announced this in a call on the 2023 annual results. Seifert indicated that throug... Read more
Hackers deploy login credentials they stole at Okta to hack Cloudflare – update
Cloudflare delved deeper into the Okta data breach that occurred in November 2023. The company became one of the victims of this data breach and got hacked sometime later. Investigations now reveal that the hackers, in all likelihood, have ties to the Chinese government.
Cloudflare fell victim ... Read more
API use increases significantly, but poses greater risks
The use of APIs is increasing all the time, but it also poses greater management and security risks as a result.
This concludes the research by Cloudflare. According to the researchers, APIs have increased again in 2023. About 57 per cent of global dynamic Internet traffic was generated by APIs ... Read more
Internet traffic grows by 25 percent, more disruption and malicious activity
Global Internet traffic increased again in 2023, Cloudflare researchers state in their annual 2023 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review. Google was the most visited website or service. Unfortunately, Internet outages and malicious traffic are also on the rise.
Cloudflare's annual survey found that gl... Read more
Cloudflare services offline due to data centre power outages
Problems with power to multiple Cloudflare data centres are having a significant impact on the company's services. Among other things, customers cannot access their Cloudflare dashboard and related APIs for management and configuration functionality.
The problems in the data centres are related ... Read more
Cloudflare signals DDoS record: 201 million requests per second
According to figures from Cloudflare, a new DDoS record has been set, with a whopping 201 million requests per second.
Cloudflare observes that the third quarter saw more high-volume HTTP DDoS attacks than ever before. These types of attacks generate high volumes of pointless traffic or spurious... Read more
Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and Amazon report heaviest DDoS attacks ever
Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and Amazon all suffered DDoS Layer 7 attacks in the past month. The attacks were enormously powerful due to a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol.
Hackers managed to exploit a vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol to start DDoS attacks. Cloudflare, Google,... Read more
Cloudflare Hyperdrive makes databases distributed
Cloudflare has introduced the Hyperdrive service within its Workers development platform. It allows companies to create globally distributed versions of their regional databases, allowing data access from anywhere in the world.
Companies still often have their databases with a cloud provider in ... Read more
Cloudflare gives SASE tool Cloudflare One new monitoring features
Cloudflare is providing the Cloudflare One SASE platform with an update. The Digital Experience Monitoring and Fleet Status features provide customers with greater insight into end-user connectivity and the network performance of individual connected devices.
The Digital Experience Monitoring (D... Read more