AI
Block bots in one click: Cloudflare 'easy button' fends off crawlers and scrapers
Growing numbers of businesses and consumers are no longer willing to let AI feast on their content, so are looking for a way of keeping the bots at bay
Cloudflare
Cloudflare says hackers stole source code, breached Atlassian and AWS environments
Incident forces huge hygiene effort, as Cloudflare rotates 5,000 credentials, triages 4,893 systems, reimages and reboots every machine after compromise.
Cloudflare
“Extremely traumatising” – Cloudflare sales executives get sacked, take it badly; CEO weighs in
"When we’re doing performance management right, we can often tell within three months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they’re going to be successful or not..."
Outages
40-hour Cloudflare outage: Tier 3 DC power failure exposes unknown software dependencies, triggers rethink
"Dependencies shouldn’t have been so tight, should have failed more gracefully, and we should have caught them"
data breaches
Okta breach looks worse as BeyondTrust, Cloudflare, 1Password report impact, flag concerns
Concern at IAM vendor Okta's response mounts as BeyondTrust details concerns, Cloudflare calls for customers to press harder on "further information regarding potential impact to your organization"
Enterprise IT
Cloudflare saw 400,000 applications for just 1,300 roles in 2022
Big competition for roles now and rich pickings for employers...
Cloud
About that flurry of HTTP 500/nginx errors...
Brief Cloudflare outage sets teeth on edge...