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Cloudflare now blocks all unencrypted traffic to its API endpoints
Cloudflare announced that it closed all HTTP connections and it is now accepting only secure, HTTPS connections for api.cloudflare.com. The move prevents unencrypted API requests from being sent, even accidentally, to eliminate the risk of sensitive information being exposed in cleartext traffic before the server closes the HTTP conection and redirects to a secure communication channel. “Starting today, any unencrypted connection…
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Cloudflare is luring web-scraping bots into an ‘AI Labyrinth’
Cloudflare, one of the biggest network internet infrastructure companies in the world, has announced AI Labyrinth, a new tool to fight web-crawling bots that scrape sites for AI training data without permission. The company says in a blog post that when it detects “inappropriate bot behavior,” the free, opt-in tool lures crawlers down a path of links to AI-generated decoy…
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Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL
An attempt to block a phishing URL in Cloudflare’s R2 object storage platform backfired yesterday, triggering a widespread outage that brought down multiple services for nearly an hour. Cloudflare R2 is an object storage service similar to Amazon S3, designed for scalable, durable, and low-cost data storage. It offers cost-free data retrievals, S3 compatibility, data replication across multiple locations, and…
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Cloudflare Adopts Content Credentials for Image Authenticity
Cloudflare has integrated Content Credentials metadata into Cloudflare Images, the content delivery network firm announced on Feb. 3. First proposed in 2021 by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), Content Credentials identify whether an image was AI-generated, modified with AI, or photographed. About 20% of internet properties use Cloudflare, Content Authenticity Initiative Community Manager Jen Tse pointed out…
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Cloudflare CDN flaw leaks user location data, even through secure chat apps
A security researcher discovered a flaw in Cloudflare’s content delivery network (CDN), which could expose a person’s general location by simply sending them an image on platforms like Signal and Discord. While the geo-locating capability of the attack is not precise enough for street-level tracking, it can provide enough data to infer what geographic region a person lives in and monitor…
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Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack
The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. The UDP-based attack occurred last year on October 29 and targeted an internet service provider (ISP) in Eastern Asia in an attempt to bring its services offline. Security and connectivity services provider Cloudflare says that the assault…
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Cloudflare says it lost 55% of logs pushed to customers for 3.5 hours
Internet security giant Cloudflare announced that it lost 55% of all logs pushed to customers over a 3.5-hour period due to a bug in the log collection service on November 14, 2024. Cloudflare offers an extensive logging service to customers that allows them to monitor the traffic on their site and filter that traffic based on certain criteria. These logs…
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Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps
During a distributed denial-of-service campaign targeting organizations in the financial services, internet, and telecommunications sectors, volumetric attacks peaked at 3.8 terabits per second, the largest publicly recorded to date. The assault consisted of a “month-long” barrage of more than 100 hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks flooding the network infrastructure with garbage data. In a volumetric DDoS attack, the target is overwhelmed with…
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