Being a bad guy on the Internet is a really good business. In more than 90% of cybersecurity incidents, phishing is the root cause of the attack, and during this third week of August phishing attacks were reported against the U.S. elections, in the geopolitical conflict between the U.S., Israel, and Iran, and to cause […]
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As part of Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet, we’re continuously integrating with other networks and service providers, ensuring ease of use for anyone, anywhere, anytime. Today, we’re excited to announce Cloud Connector – a brand-new way to put Cloudflare in front of popular public cloud services, protecting your assets, accelerating applications, and […]
PrestaShop GTAG Websocket Skimmer
During a recent investigation we uncovered another credit card skimmer leveraging a web socket connection to steal credit card details from an infected PrestaShop website. While PrestaShop is not the most popular eCommerce solution for online stores it is still in the top 10 most common ecommerce platforms in use on the web, and clocks […]
Paris 2024 Olympics recap: Internet trends, cyber threats, and popular moments
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics wrapped up on August 11, 2024, with the Olympic flag being lowered in the Stade de France after 16 days of competitions. With 329 events across 32 sports, over 10,000 athletes from 204 nations participated in the pursuit of medals and glory, creating some viral online moments along the way. […]
Rising together: honoring Cloudflare’s outstanding partners
We’re thrilled to announce Cloudflare’s worldwide 2023 Channel Partner Award winners! Partners are crucial to Cloudflare’s success, extending the solutions and support that customers need to control application complexity, reduce cyber risk, and cut costs, all with a high level of customer satisfaction. PowerUP Partners First This year, we again received CRN’s highest accolade of […]
Advancing Threat Intelligence: JA4 fingerprints and inter-request signals
For many years, Cloudflare has used advanced fingerprinting techniques to help block online threats, in products like our DDoS engine, our WAF, and Bot Management. For the purposes of Bot Management, fingerprinting characteristic elements of client software help us quickly identify what kind of software is making an HTTP request. It’s an efficient and accurate […]
What is Website Monitoring?
Picture this: It’s October 2016, and you’re trying to access your favorite websites – Twitter, Netflix, Spotify – but nothing’s loading. If you can believe it, this wasn’t just a bad day for the internet; it was the result of one of the largest DDoS attacks in history, targeting Dyn, a major DNS provider. Fast […]
Introducing Automatic SSL/TLS: securing and simplifying origin connectivity
During Birthday Week 2022, we pledged to provide our customers with the most secure connection possible from Cloudflare to their origin servers automatically. I’m thrilled to announce we will begin rolling this experience out to customers who have the SSL/TLS Recommender enabled on August 8, 2024. Following this, remaining Free and Pro customers can use […]
Celebrating one year of Project Cybersafe Schools
August 8, 2024, is the first anniversary of Project Cybersafe Schools, Cloudflare’s initiative to provide free security tools to small school districts in the United States. Cloudflare announced Project Cybersafe Schools at the White House on August 8, 2023 as part of the Back to School Safely: K-12 Cybersecurity Summit hosted by First Lady Dr. […]
The backbone behind Cloudflare’s Connectivity Cloud
The modern use of “cloud” arguably traces its origins to the cloud icon, omnipresent in network diagrams for decades. A cloud was used to represent the vast and intricate infrastructure components required to deliver network or Internet services without going into depth about the underlying complexities. At Cloudflare, we embody this principle by providing critical […]