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CloudFlare

Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online.

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Founded Date

2009

Industries
Internet SaaS/Enterprise Security & Privacy
Operating Status

IPO

Website

www.cloudflare.com/

Founders

Matthew Prince Founder

News About CloudFlare

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Security

Okta’s latest hack fallout hits Cloudflare, 1Password

Zack Whittaker

Network and security giant Cloudflare and password manager maker 1Password said hackers briefly targeted their systems following a recent breach of Okta’s support unit. Both Cloudflare and 1Password said their recent intrusions were linked to the Okta breach, but that the incidents did not affect their customer systems or user data. “We immediately terminated the […]

Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco
AI

Cloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models

Kyle Wiggers

Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed at helping customers build, deploy and run AI models at the network edge. One of the new offerings, Workers AI, lets customers access physically nearby GPUs hosted by Cloudflare partners to run […]

Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco
Apps

Cloudflare launches Observatory, a tool to beef up web monitoring

Kyle Wiggers

Organizations increasingly see observability — the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates — as key. In a recent survey from New Relic, more than three-quarters (78%) of IT decision-makers and practitioners said that they saw observability as an enabler for achieving business goals. Website observability and analytics in […]

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Apps

Cloudflare wants to replace CAPTCHAs with Turnstile

Kyle Wiggers

Ahead of its Connect conference in October, Cloudflare this week announced an ambitious new project called Turnstile, which seeks to do away with the CAPTCHAs used throughout the web to verify people are who they say they are. Available to site owners at no charge, Cloudflare customers or no, Turnstile chooses from a rotating suite […]

Venture

Cloudflare takes aim at AWS with promise of $1.25 billion to startups that use its own platform

Connie Loizos

Cloudflare, the security, performance and reliability company that went public three years ago, said this morning that it will help connect startups that use its serverless computing platform to dozens of venture firms that have collectively offered to invest up to $1.25 billion in the companies out of their existing funds. It’s a smart, splashy […]

Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco
Apps

Cloudflare launches an eSIM to secure mobile devices

Kyle Wiggers

Are smartphones ever entirely secure? It depends on one’s definition of “secure,” particularly when dealing with corporate environments. Most companies with bring-your-own-device policies install apps or agents on workers’ smartphones to help secure them, leveraging the management capabilities built into operating systems like Android and iOS. But those might not be sufficient. That’s what Cloudflare […]

Phishing target
Security

Twilio hackers breached over 130 organizations during months-long hacking spree

Carly Page

The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised more than 130 organizations during their hacking spree that netted the credentials of close to 10,000 employees. Twilio’s recent network intrusion allowed the hackers to access the data of 125 Twilio customers and companies — including end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal — after tricking employees […]

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TC

The ruling against Juuling?

Henry Pickavet

Hello and welcome back to Week in Review, your one-stop spot for the biggest stories from the week. Greg Kumparak is off enjoying the beginning of summer and has entrusted me to keep you updated in his absence. If you want this in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here. And while you’re at it, […]

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Media & Entertainment

Apple is introducing new tech in iOS 16 to let you skip CAPTCHAs

Ivan Mehta

It’s pretty annoying to go through CAPTCHA verification where you have to identify weird squiggly letters or click on images of the boat till there are none left — just to prove that you’re not a robot. Apple might be getting rid of this problem with a new feature in the upcoming iOS 16 and […]

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Crypto

Cloudflare outage hit crypto exchanges FTX, Bitfinex and more

Rita Liao

A Cloudflare outage on Tuesday knocked out numerous popular web services, including major crypto exchanges FTX, Bitfinex and OKX, raising questions about the security of centralized crypto platforms. The CEO of OKX, which saw $1.47 billion in trading volume in the past 24 hours, tweeted asking for “web3 alternative in the future” after the company’s […]

Exterior view of Cloudflare headquarters, San Francisco
TC

Cloudflare fixes outage that knocked popular services offline

Manish Singh

Cloudflare said on Tuesday it resolved a “wide-spread” outage earlier in the day that affected a large number of services including FTX, Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN and Feedly. The internet infrastructure firm resolved the issue roughly an hour after users began facing issues accessing some popular sites including Zerodha, Medium.com, news outlet Register, Groww, […]

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TC

Cloudflare outage hit Discord, other services in India

Manish Singh

A Cloudflare outage in the India region that began earlier Wednesday caused several services including Discord, online insurer Acko, GitLab and SaaS platform OSlash to face performance issues in the country. Users also reported issues accessing Shopify, Udemy, Canva and Zerodha, according to DownDetector, a crowdsourced web monitoring tool that tracks outage reports. The CDN […]

Cloudflare headquarters in San Francisco
Enterprise

Cloudflare heads effort to make JavaScript environments interoperable

Kyle Wiggers

Cloudflare today announced that it’s collaborating with Deno, the development company behind the eponymous Deno runtime, and individual contributors of the Node.js open source project to create standards that enable developers to write code between Deno, Node.js and Cloudflare’s serverless app platform, Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince says that the effort will […]