Google, Amazon, Cloudflare all issue warnings after dealing with the largest-ever DDoS attack they have ever seen
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Ericsson Still Provides Support Services To Russia
Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson says hardware is not exported to Russia, but it still provides software and technical support
Cloudflare Outage Downs Hundreds Of Websites
Not a cyberattack. Swathes of the Internet knocked offline on Tuesday after 'service issues' at infrastructure provider Cloudflare
TikTok Beats Google To Top US Traffic Spot
Social media app TikTok for first time replaces Google as site with most US visitors in 2021, as pandemic pushes surge in online entertainment
Mozilla Turns On DoH By Default For US Firefox Users
Mozilla Foundation has turned on its privacy feature called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for American users of the Firefox browser
Far-Right Website 8chan Offline After Cloudflare Withdraws Services
Site goes offline following involvement in shootings in Texas, with Cloudflare accusing it of 'directly inspiring tragic events'
Cloudflare Pulls Protection From Far Right Daily Stormer Website
Cloudflare CEO said it was a difficult decision but US civil liberties group hits out at tech firms for clampdown
Recent Cloud Issues Show Security Can Fail Dramatically
CloudBleed and TicketBleed showed how cloud services, while usually more secure, can fail significantly. Will they turn off companies to the cloud?
CloudFlare Server Bug Sees Sensitive Customer Data Exposed As Plain Text
Google's Project Zero alerts the content delivery network firm to the flaw
CloudFlare Gets Caught Out By 2016 Leap Second
The leap second caused CloudFlare's RRDNS software to "panic," but the error was quickly identified
Telia Carrier Is Blamed For CloudFlare Outage
CloudFlare CEO says company is "deprioritising" Telia until issues are fixed
CloudFlare Suffers Major European Outage
Telia outage takes down CloudFlare - Internet users complain Slack, Reddit and other sites unavailable
Ageing Algorithm Poses Browsing Risk, Warns Facebook
Cloudflare, Facebook warn browsing in developing countries will be risker when SHA-1 algorithm is retired
Anonymous Targets CloudFlare For Alleged Islamic State Links
Security firm accused of protecting Islamic State-affiliated websites from Anonymous hackers
Google Launches Service To Speed Up Rich Web Content Distribution
Google announces a CDN Interconnect service in collaboration with distribution network services to speed up the delivery of media-rich content to Web users
Cloudfare Offers DDoS Protection For ‘Free Speech’ Websites
CloudFlare offers free anti-DDoS protection for political and artistic websites exercising 'free speech'
Private Keys Can Be Pilfered With Heartbleed Exploits
CloudFlare challenge to steal private keys via Heartbleed flaw finds a handful of winners
CloudFlare: Biggest DDoS Ever Hits Europe
DDoS weighing in at nearly 400Gbps targets unnamed CloudFlare customer in Europe, as attackers use NTP to amplify attack
Suspect Arrested Over ‘Biggest Cyber Attack Ever’
Man arrested believed to be Stophaus leader Sven Olaf Kamphuis over hits on Spamhaus and others
Bitcoin Blockchain And Mt.Gox Knocked Offline By DDoS Attacks
More trouble in Bitcoin land, with the Blockchain DDoSed, Mt.Gox suffering outages and BitFloor giving up entirely
‘Biggest DDoS Attack’ Did Not Hurt The Global Internet – This Time
TechWeekEurope investigates - the Spamhaus attacks didn't slow the Internet much at all, but they are seriously worrying
Wikileaks Back Online After ‘10Gbps DDoS’
Thanks to help from CloudFlare, Wikileaks recovers from a DDoS attack
CloudFlare CDN: We Have To Stay Open, Even To Evil
CloudFlare's network will remain open to all, says CEO Matthew Prince