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Helping civil society monitor attacks with the CyberPeaceTracer and Cloudflare Email Security

2025-02-17

We’re proud to collaborate with CyberPeace Institute by powering its latest initiative, the CyberPeace Tracer, a platform that enables civil society organizations to proactively report cyber threats....

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Searching for the cause of hung tasks in the Linux kernel

2025-02-14

Deep DiveLinuxKernelMonitoring

The Linux kernel can produce a hung task warning. Searching the Internet and the kernel docs, you can find a brief explanation that the process is stuck in the uninterruptible state....

Automatic Audit Logs: new updates deliver increased transparency and accountability

2025-02-13

Audit LogsBeta

We’re excited to announce the beta release of Automatic Audit Logs, offering greater transparency and control....

Offline celebrations: how Christmas, NYE, and Lunar New Year festivities shape online behavior

2025-02-11

Internet TrafficRadarTrendsChristmasNew Year

This blog examines how diverse cultural celebrations — from Western Christmas to Orthodox and Lunar New Year festivities — shape global Internet traffic....

QUIC action: patching a broadcast address amplification vulnerability

2025-02-10

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Cloudflare was recently contacted by researchers who discovered a broadcast amplification vulnerability through their QUIC Internet measurement research. We've implemented a mitigation....

Resolving a Mutual TLS session resumption vulnerability

2025-02-07

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Cloudflare patched a Mutual TLS (mTLS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-23419) reported via its Bug Bounty Program. The flaw in session resumption allowed client certificates to authenticate across different...

Cloudflare incident on February 6, 2025

2025-02-07

Post MortemOutageR2 Storage

On Thursday, February 6, 2025, we experienced an outage with our object storage service (R2) and products that rely on it. Here's what happened and what we're doing to fix this going forward....

No hallucinations here: track the latest AI trends with expanded insights on Cloudflare Radar

2025-02-04

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Today, we are launching a new dedicated “AI Insights” page on Cloudflare Radar that incorporates this graph and builds on it with additional metrics....

Preserving content provenance by integrating Content Credentials into Cloudflare Images

2025-02-03

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Media and journalism companies can now build end-to-end workflows that support Content Credentials by using Cloudflare Images. ...

A diversity of downtime: the Q4 2024 Internet disruption summary

2025-01-28

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After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions....

Cloudflare meets new Global Cross-Border Privacy (CBPR) standards

2025-01-28

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Cloudflare is the first organization globally to announce having been successfully audited against the ‘Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules’ system and ‘Global Privacy Recognition for Processors’....

Cloudflare thwarts over 47 million cyberthreats against Jewish and Holocaust educational websites

2025-01-27

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January 27 marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day — a solemn occasion to honor the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, along with countless others who fell victim...

Over 700 million events/second: How we make sense of too much data

2025-01-27

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Here we explain how we made our data pipeline scale to 700 million events per second while becoming more resilient than ever before. We share some math behind our approach and some of the designs of ...

Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4

2025-01-21

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2024 ended with a bang. Cloudflare mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 5.6 Tbps....

The fall and rise of TikTok (traffic)

2025-01-21

RadarInternet TrafficTrendsTikTok

On January 19, 2025, ByteDance suspended TikTok and related apps for US users. We examine the 14-hour traffic plunge, recovery near Donald Trump’s inauguration....

TikTok ban takes hold: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives

2025-01-19

RadarInternet TrafficTrendsTikTok

On January 19, 2025, ByteDance shut down access to TikTok and other owned/operated apps for US users, causing an 85% traffic plunge and a rapid shift to alternatives like RedNote....

Demonstrating reduction of vulnerability classes: a key step in CISA’s “Secure by Design” pledge

2025-01-14

CISAPolicy & LegalReliabilitySecurity

Cloudflare strengthens its commitment to cybersecurity by joining CISA's "Secure by Design" pledge. In line with this, we're reducing the prevalence of vulnerability classes across our products....

Open source all the way down: Upgrading our developer documentation

2025-01-08

Technical WritingOpen SourceDeveloper DocumentationDevelopersDeveloper Platform

At Cloudflare, we treat developer content like an open source product. This collaborative approach enables global contributions to enhance quality and relevance for a wide range of users. This year,...

Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time

2025-01-03

TCPNetworkLinuxDeep Dive

Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) leverages multiple network interfaces, like Wi-Fi and cellular, to provide seamless mobility for more reliable connectivity. While promising, MPTCP is still in its early stages,...