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Matthew Prince / CloudFlare blog:
The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet   —  The New York Times this morning published a story about the Spamhaus DDoS attack and how CloudFlare helped mitigate it and keep the site online.  The Times calls the attack the largest known DDoS attack ever on the Internet.  We wrote about the attack last week.
Mar 27, 2013, 1:40 PMIn context
Matthew Prince / CloudFlare blog:
How Syria Turned Off the Internet   —  Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1029 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped.  At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off.  We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened.
Nov 29, 2012, 6:05 PMIn context
Tom Paseka / CloudFlare blog:
Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works   —  Today, Google's services experienced a limited outage for about 27 minutes over some portions of the Internet.  The reason this happened dives into the deep, dark corners of networking.
Nov 6, 2012, 11:45 AMIn context
Matthew Prince / CloudFlare blog:
How to Launch a 65Gbps DDoS, and How to Stop One   —  Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturday.  The outage was caused when we applied an overly aggressive rate limit to traffic on our network while battling a determined DDoS attacker.  In the process of writing …
Sep 18, 2012, 2:20 PMIn context
Matthew Prince / CloudFlare blog:
The Four Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack   —  A core value CloudFlare is that security information should be shared between organizations to make the entire Internet safer.  That is how CloudFlare's systems work: if one site is attacked, data about that attack …
Jun 4, 2012, 9:25 PMIn context
Matthew Prince / CloudFlare's blog:
On LulzSec, Censorship & CloudFlare   —  Thursday, June 2, 2011 was an otherwise unremarkable day in our office until we got word that LulzSecurity.com, a site that had quietly registered for CloudFlare earlier the same day, had allegedly published information it obtained from hacking the Sony Pictures' website.
Jun 26, 2011, 8:30 AMIn context

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