Matthew Prince, cofounder and chief executive officer of CloudFlare. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) All week, the infamous hate site Daily Stormer has been battling to stay online in the face of a concerted social media campaign to shut it down. The site lost its “dailystormer.com” domain on Monday after first GoDaddy and […]
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Cloudflare gets another $50,000 to fight “new breed of patent troll”
Enlarge (credit: @mopictures) Cloudflare, the CDN and Internet security company, has gone full berserker-mode in its fight against patent-holding company Blackbird Technologies. Blackbird sued Cloudflare in March, claiming infringement of US Patent No. 6,453,335. Two weeks ago, Cloudflare explained the strategy it would use to fight back. The company pledged to not only seek to invalidate […]
Cloudflare changes abuse policy but refuses to “censor the Internet”
Enlarge / The Cloudflare network includes 111 data centers and 10Tbps capacity. (credit: Cloudflare) Network operator Cloudflare came under fire last week from ProPublica, which wrote a lengthy article arguing that the Internet company “helps serve up hate on the Web.” According to ProPublica, Cloudflare does this by providing service to any website operator and failing […]
Content delivery network CloudFlare leaked sensitive data across the internet for months
CloudFlare, a multibillion-dollar startup that runs a popular content delivery network used by more than 5.5 million sites, accidentally leaked customers’ sensitive information for months, the company said Thursday. The firm has since fixed the issues at the heart of the problem, CloudFlare said. The leaked data included “private messages from major dating sites, full […]
Serious Cloudflare bug exposed a potpourri of secret customer data
(credit: Acid the meme machine) Cloudflare, a service that helps optimize the security and performance of more than 5.5 million websites, warned customers today that a recently fixed software bug exposed a range of sensitive information that could have included passwords, and cookies and tokens used to authenticate users. A combination of factors made the […]
