There is currently a significant attack being launched at a large number of WordPress blogs across the Internet. The attacker is brute force attacking the WordPress administrative portals, using the username “admin” and trying thousands of passwords. It appears a botnet is being used to launch the attack and more than tens of thousands of […]
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The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
The New York Times this morning published a story about the Spamhaus DDoS attack and how CloudFlare helped mitigate it and keep the site online. The Times calls the attack the largest known DDoS attack ever on the Internet. We wrote about the attack last week. At the time, it was a large attack, sending […]
CloudFlare Keeps TheBayLights.org Running Bright
The Art When you think of San Francisco, undoubtedly one bridge in particular comes to mind – The Golden Gate Bridge. This year, however, the Bay Bridge is getting its moment in the spotlight thanks to Words Pictures Ideas, a CloudFlare customer. Words Pictures Ideas services brands and organizations in need of smarter communications. While […]
Good Web Security News: Open DNS Resolvers Are Getting Closed
This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook to Apple. We’re therefore happy to end the week with some good news: the web’s open resolvers, one of the sources of the biggest DDoS attacks, are getting closed. Sad State of Affairs Last October, […]
Facebook Bug Redirects the Web Through Javascript Widget Error
You may have heard that Facebook took down a significant portion of the Internet today. A bug in their Facebook Connect script — which is installed widely across many sites including CNN, MSNBC.com, New York Magazine, and many more places — caused users to be redirected to a Facebook error page. Here’s a video of […]
CloudFlare Heading to Parallels Summit 2013
CloudFlare is heading to Parallels Summit in Las Vegas on Monday, February 4th to Wednesday, February 6th. We look forward to meeting and reconnecting with service providers and providing complimentary limo rides between the airport and the Caesars Palace hotel. We recently launched a partnership with Parallels. Any Parallels service provider can increase revenue, while […]
App: Clearspike automates search engine optimization
You care about your website, and you want it to be found. For many visitors, finding your website starts with search engines. Together, Google, Bing, Baidu and others are huge sources of traffic for every website. The extra speed and security CloudFlare delivers are helpful for search engine ranking, but there are many other factors, […]
App: GamaSec Web Application Security and Vulnerability Scanning
We enjoy working with companies who share a focus on website security. When GamaSec, an online web vulnerability-assessment service, inquired about ways to integrate, we were excited to make their scanning service available as a CloudFlare app, where any CloudFlare customer can easily turn on GamaSec. GamaSec’s cloud-based security scan serves as an early-warning system […]
What We Just Did to Make SSL Even Faster
A little over a month ago, we published a couple of blog posts about how we were making SSL faster. Specifically, we enabled OCSP stapling across our network. In brief, when you visit a page over HTTPS, your browser checks to see if the SSL certificate is still valid via a protocol called OCSP. Those […]
Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules that are specific to our infrastructure including load balancing, monitoring, and caching. Recently, we’ve been adding more […]
