Collaborate Disseminate
If you use the Firefox web browser, here’s an important update that you need to be aware of.
Starting today, Mozilla is activating the DNS-over-HTTPS security feature by default for all Firefox users in the U.S. by automatically changing their DNS ser… Continue reading Firefox enables DNS-over-HTTPS by default (with Cloudflare) for all U.S. users
Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money show featuring HIBP and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. They’d given me a heads up as apparently, that’s what the program
Continue reading Handling Huge Traffic Spikes with Azure Functions and Cloudflare
I’ve heard in a conversation and read in some forum posts that Cloudflare will proxy your IP, hiding it from the public, and this mitigates the risk of an attacker finding your server in the first place, making it more secure.
Is there an… Continue reading Does Cloudflare masking my IP make my server more secure?
Every Cloudflare account gets one pair of nameservers assigned, which can be used for all domains in the account.
As cloudflare is an anycast network, would it be possible to just use any nameserver pair and not the one assigned to an acc… Continue reading Use any combination of cloudflare Name Servers [closed]
Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced it will be offering free security services to help political campaigns in the United States and around the world defend against cyberattacks an… Continue reading Cloudflare for Campaigns protects political campaigns against cyberattacks and election interference
Arlo SmartCloud: A SaaS solution securing cloud services for businesses Arlo SmartCloud is a fully managed global platform built for security, scalability and reliability that can be deployed as part of subscription services for hardware companies, aut… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: January 10, 2020
Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that it has launched Cloudflare for Teams, a set of solutions that will secure corporations and their employees globally, without sacrificing p… Continue reading Cloudflare for Teams: Protecting corporations without sacrificing performance
Firefox users interested in turning on the browser’s DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) privacy feature now have two providers to choose from. Continue reading Mozilla adds NextDNS to list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers
I have a Web Apps (Linux) application on Azure, and I added a custom domain which I have protected with CloudFlare.
I added Azure Security Center to my subscription.
At the moment one can access the application either
directly via exa… Continue reading How do I configure Azure Web Apps so that the only access is via CloudFlare?
It looks like scammers are impersonating one of Russia’s most notorious hacking groups in order to extort victims out of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin. Multiple companies have reported to the security vendor Akamai that they were hit with a distributed denial-of-service attack, which degrades victims’ web services by overwhelming them with fake traffic. After a brief DDoS hit, victims say they receive an extortion note from a group claiming to be Cozy Bear, a state-sponsored Russian hacking group. The scheme works like this: attackers launch the DDoS attack from a botnet, in which each IP in the botnet sends a fraction of the overall traffic to the target. The victim has a deadline, typically six days, to pay two bitcoin. If they don’t pay by the time the deadline expires, the fee increases by one bitcoin per day, and the DDoS resumes. Cozy Bear is best known for […]
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