CloudFlare Joins Three More Peering Exchanges in Australia
In the coming weeks, connectivity to CloudFlare in Australia is going to a new level. As part of CloudFlare’s ongoing upgrades program, we established connections to three new Internet exchanges: the...
View ArticleCourage to change things
This was an internal email that I sent to the CloudFlare team about how we are not afraid to throw away old code. We thought it was worth sharing with a wider audience.Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:24:21...
View ArticleListo! Medellin, Colombia: CloudFlare's 28th Data Center
“What’s that? CloudFlare’s 28th data center is in Medellin, Colombia!?”With the World Cup at an end, so too is our latest round of data center expansion. Following deployments in Madrid, Milan and São...
View ArticleExperimenting with mozjpeg 2.0
One of the services that CloudFlare provides to paying customers is called Polish. Polish automatically recompresses images cached by CloudFlare to ensure that they are as small as possible and can be...
View ArticleCloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets
CC BY 2.0 from Brian SnelsonI'm pleased to announce that CloudFlare now supports WebSockets. The ability to protect and accelerate WebSockets has been one of our most requested features. As of today,...
View ArticleGoogle Now Factoring HTTPS Support Into Ranking; CloudFlare On Track to Make...
As of today, there are only about 2 million websites that support HTTPS. That's a shamefully low number. Two things are about to happen that we at CloudFlare are hopeful will begin to change that and...
View ArticleTinfoil Security vulnerability scanning now easy in CloudFlare Apps
We’re pleased to introduce a new CloudFlare App: Tinfoil Security. Tinfoil Security is a service designed to find possible web application vulnerabilities. Security is central to CloudFlare's service....
View ArticleCloudFlare hiring Go programmers in London and San Francisco
Are you familiar with the Go programming language and looking for a job in San Francisco or London? Then think about applying to CloudFlare. We're looking for people with experience writing Go in both...
View ArticleDIY Web Server: Raspberry Pi + CloudFlare
The Raspberry Pi was created with a simple mission in mind: change the way people interact with computers. This inexpensive, credit card-sized machine is encouraging people, especially kids, to start...
View ArticleThe Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
CC BY 2.0 by Kendrick EricksonOver the last few months, there’s been increased attention on networks and how they interconnect. CloudFlare runs a large network that interconnects with many others...
View ArticleGo interfaces make test stubbing easy
Go's "object-orientation" approach is through interfaces. Interfaces provide a way of specifying the behavior expected of an object, but rather than saying what an object itself can do, they specify...
View ArticleSXSW Interactive 2015: Vote for CloudFlare’s Submissions
Has your Twitter feed been flooded with “vote for my SXSW panel” tweets? With so much buzz all over the place, we wanted to keep it simple and share all of the presentations and panels affiliated with...
View ArticleParticipate in the “Internet Slowdown” with One Click
Net Neutrality is an important issue for CloudFlare as well as for our more than 2 million customers, whose success depends on a vibrant, dynamic, and open Internet. An open Internet promotes...
View ArticleProtection against critical Windows vulnerability (CVE-2015-1635)
A few hours ago, more details surfaced about the MS15-034 vulnerability. Simple PoC code has been widely published that will hang a Windows web server if sent a request with an HTTP Range header...
View ArticleOceania Redundancy: Auckland and Melbourne data centers now online
The genesis of our 33rd and 34th data centers in Auckland and Melbourne started a short hop away in nearby Sydney. Prior to these deployments traffic from all of New Zealand and Australia's collective...
View ArticleContributing back to the security community
This Friday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, along with Marc Rogers, Principal Security Researcher at CloudFlare, I'm speaking about a version of The Grugq's PORTAL, an open source network...
View ArticleOf Phishing Attacks and WordPress 0days
Proxying around 5% of the Internet’s requests gives us an interesting vantage point from which to observe malicious behavior. However, it also makes us a target. Aside from the many and varied denial...
View ArticleNew Magento WAF Rule – RCE Vulnerability Protection
Today the Magento Security Team created a new ModSecurity rule and added it to our WAF rules to mitigate an important RCE (remote code execution) vulnerability in the Magento web e-commerce platform....
View ArticleCloudFlare's New Dashboard
When we started CloudFlare, we thought we were building a service to make websites faster and more secure, and we wanted to make the service as easy and accessible as possible. As a result, we built...
View ArticleIntroducing Multi-User Organizations: Share An Account Without Sharing A Login
An enterprise needs security and controls around access. Your web developer needs to update your website’s logo and make sure it’s live immediately, but doesn’t need access to your SSL keys. Your...
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