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Cloudflare announces website testing tool Observatory

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

date9 months ago
DDoS attacks changing from targeting IoT to VPS infrastructure

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

date12 months ago
Cloudflare stops largest DDoS attack ever

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

date1 year ago
Cloudflare and Microsoft expand zero-trust integrations

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

date1 year ago
Cloudflare handles record DDoS attack on Minecraft server

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

date1 year ago
Cloudflare fends off largest HTTPS DDoS attack of all time

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

date2 years ago
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