Information Technology Security

By Sergiu Gatlan,  Bleeping Computer Cloudflare says a massive outage that affected more than a dozen of its data centers and hundreds of major online platforms and services today was caused by a change that should have increased network resilience. "Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers," Cloudflare said after investigating the incident. "Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic. This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations." According to user reports, the full list of affected websites and services includes, but it's not limited to, Amazon, Twitch, Amazon Web Services, Steam, Coinbase, Telegram, Discord, DoorDash, Gitlab, and more.

By Sergiu Gatlan,  Bleeping Computer Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said today that it mitigated a 26 million request per second distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The record-breaking attack occurred last week and targeted one of Cloudflare's customers using the Free plan. The threat actor behind it likely used hijacked servers and virtual machines seeing that the attack originated from Cloud Service Providers instead of weaker Internet of Things (IoT) devices from compromised Residential Internet Service Providers. According to Cloudflare, the attacker also used a rather small yet very powerful botnet of 5,067 devices, each capable of generating roughly 5,200 rps when peaking. "To contrast the size of this botnet, we've been tracking another much larger but less powerful botnet of over 730,000 devices," revealed Cloudflare Product Manager Omer Yoachimik. "The latter, larger botnet wasn't able...

By Mayank Parmar, Bleeping Computers Microsoft is working on a built-in VPN functionality for the Edge browser called ' Edge Secure Network ', but there's a catch - it is not a proper replacement for your VPN. Edge's Secure Network is powered by Cloudflare - one of the most trusted DNS hosts in the industry - and it aims to protect your device and sensitive data as you browse. The feature is in the early stage of development available to select users in Edge Canary and it's not a full-fledged VPN service offered in rival browsers like Opera. So how does Microsoft Edge's Secure Network actually work? As per the support document and our tests, Edge uses Cloudflare's routing to encrypt your internet connection and protect your data from online threats like hackers. Microsoft says Edge Secure network feature sends your traffic through an encrypted tunnel to create a secure connection, which means even HTTP URLs are accessed securely in a bid to make it harder ...