Cloudflare announces website testing tool Observatory
Cloudflare has announced Observatory. The company designed the tool to assist companies in measuring the loading speed of their websites more efficiently. Cloudflare has made it available for free. It replaces the previous Speed Tab feature, which was introduced in 2019 and offered similar function... Read more
Cloudflare: connectivity will become worse in EU if big tech has to pay telcos
Cloudflare opposes a potential EU bill that would require network fees to be settled with big tech companies. The company reports in a blog post that implementation of the proposals will slow down the Internet for consumers.
It came out in mid-2022 that France, Italy and Spain wanted big tech to... Read more
DDoS attacks changing from targeting IoT to VPS infrastructure
This new generation of botnets uses leaked API credentials or known exploits to enslave vulnerable and misconfigured Virtual Private Servers, allowing threat actors to build high-performance botnets that are up to 5,000 times stronger than their IoT-based counterparts.
According to Cloudflare, t... Read more
Cloudflare stops largest DDoS attack ever
Cloudflare has managed to repel the largest DDoS attack ever to date in terms of volume. This was not a single wave of attacks, but a slew of DDoS attacks. The average peak of the attacks was between 50 and 70 million requests per second (rps).
According to Cloudflare, the giant attack now repel... Read more
Cloudflare and Microsoft expand zero-trust integrations
Cloudflare and Microsoft announced four new integrations that help joint customers deploy, automate and improve zero-trust security.
According to the partners, the integrations allow users to quickly deploy zero-trust tooling without complex code changes. The integrations combine Microsoft's ide... Read more
Cloudflare offers free zero-trust security for public organizations
Cloudflare made its One suite of zero-trust security tools available for free to public organizations such as non-profits, election websites and political campaigners.
The tools give teams the same zero-trust protection as large corporations. Eligible companies often don't have the money or kno... Read more
Cloudflare handles record DDoS attack on Minecraft server
A 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack recently hit Wynncraft, a popular Minecraft server. According to DDoS mitigation provider Cloudflare, the attack lasted roughly two minutes and comprised UDP and TCP flood packets to overpower the server and lock out hundreds of thousands of us... Read more
Cloudflare promises to support startups with $1.25 billion in funding
Cloudflare wants to support the startups that use its software by introducing them to dozens of investors that have collectively offered to invest up to $1.25 billion in venture capital.
The company went public almost three years back. Cloudflare develops a serverless computing platform called ... Read more
Cloudflare launches Zero Trust SIM, endpoint security for smartphones
Cloudflare introduced Zero Trust SIM, an upcoming solution that runs on eSIM cards to secure all smartphone traffic.
There are numerous smartphone security solutions available in today's market. Agents are a common approach, wherein a vendor deploys a software program on a smartphone to monitor... Read more
Cloudflare fends off largest HTTPS DDoS attack of all time
Cloudflare recently repelled the largest HTTPS DDoS attack of all time. The attack executed as many as 26 million HTTPS requests per second using hijacked servers and virtual machines.
The attack targeted one of Cloudflare's customers. The hackers used a botnet consisting of 5,067 IoT devices, s... Read more