Press Highlights 2012

December 2012

Reuters · December 14, 2012

Selling flak jackets in the cyberwars

Bloomberg · December 12, 2012

Why a Fast-Growing Startup Tries to Keep Its Venture Funding Secret

Mashable · December 05, 2012

Cyber attacks in Israel and Gaza Increased After Cease Fire Declared

Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine · December 05, 2012

SMBs Stand to Benefit from Parallels-Cloudflare Partnership

Web Host Industry Review · December 04, 2012

Cloudflare CDN Offers Web Hosts Reseller Opportunities via Parallels Partnership

The Hosting News · December 04, 2012

Benefiting SMBs: Inside the Parallels/Cloudflare Deal

Fraser Coast Chronicle · December 03, 2012

Syrian government shuts Syria off from the internet

ComputerWorld · December 01, 2012

Syrian Internet appears to be largely restored

CNN · December 01, 2012

Internet, phone services back online for much of Syria

Discovery News · December 01, 2012

How Syria Shut Down The Internet

Ars Technica · December 01, 2012

Updated: Paint it black – How Syria methodically erased itself from the ‘Net

AllThingsD · December 01, 2012

Part of Syria Back Online Following Two-Day Internet Blackout

November 2012

TechWeb · November 30, 2012

Gaza Ceasefire Doesn’t Hold Online: New Anonymous Hack

CNET · November 30, 2012

Google reactivates Speak2Tweet for Syrian Internet cutoff

Huffington Post · November 30, 2012

Anonymous Declares War On Syrian Government Websites In Retaliation For Internet Blackout

Yahoo New · November 30, 2012

Global hacking network declares Internet war on Syria

International Business Times · November 30, 2012

Anonymous Attacks Syrian Websites As Internet Blackout Continues

ZDNet · November 30, 2012

How were Syria’s networks and Internet taken offline

Gizmodo · November 30, 2012

How Syria Turned Off the Internet

TechPresident · November 30, 2012

Syria’s Internet Completely Cut Off for the First Time Since its Civil War Began

Forbes · November 30, 2012

Anonymous Hackers Swat At Syrian Government Websites In Reprisal For Internet Blackout

InformationWeek · November 30, 2012

Gaza Ceasefire Doesn’t Hold Online: New Anonymous Hack

The Washington Post · November 30, 2012

Surprising video shows Syrian Internet connections dropping one by one

The Washington Post · November 30, 2012

Syria Internet outage: How it might have happened and what it mean

International Business Times · November 30, 2012

Syrian Internet Still Down, Experts Say Regime Is Behind The Blackout

Huffington Post · November 30, 2012

Anonymous Declares War On Syrian Government Websites In Retaliation For Internet Blackout

Infosecurity · November 30, 2012

Hacktivist group targets Syria in wake of internet blackout

Telecom · November 30, 2012

Syria disconnected from Internet, as ITU calls for nations to stop impeding access

Chicago Tribune · November 30, 2012

Global hacking network declares Internet war on Syria

Huffington Post · November 30, 2012

Anonymous Declares War On Syrian Government Websites In Retaliation For Internet Blackout

Committee To Protect Journalists · November 30, 2012

Syria’s desperate move to cut links won’t succeed

ComputerWorld · November 30, 2012

Why what happened to the Internet in Syria couldn’t happen here

Huffington Post · November 30, 2012

How To Get Around The Internet Blackout in Syria – Or A Mass Communications Outage Anywhere

CNN · November 30, 2012

Syria caused Internet blackout, security firm says

Huffington Post · November 30, 2012

Cutting Syria’s Internet: desperate move doomed to failure

PC World · November 30, 2012

Why what happened to the Internet in Syria couldn’t happen here

Reuters · November 30, 2012

Global Hacking Network Declares Internet War on Syria

PC Mag · November 30, 2012

Syria Plunges Into Internet Blackout

CNN · November 30, 2012

Fierce fighting closes Damascus airport for second day

Data Center Dynamics · November 30, 2012

Syria: how to take an entire country off the Internet

NBC News · November 30, 2012

How Syria Shut Down the Internet

Network World · November 30, 2012

Visualizing Syrian Internet blackout

The Atlantic Wire · November 30, 2012

See How Syria’s Internet Disappeared

The Guardian · November 30, 2012

Syria conflict: internet blackout continues

Global Post · November 30, 2012

OpSyria: Anonymous declares cyberwar on Syrian government for taking Syria offline

ITWorld · November 30, 2012

Syrians turn to satellites as the country’s Internet connection remains down

NBCNews · November 30, 2012

Syria caused Internet blackout, firm says

CBSNews · November 30, 2012

Google, Twitter restart speak2tweet in wake of Syria blackout

ABC News · November 30, 2012

Internet Blackout in Syria as Airport Shuts Down

ABC Online · November 30, 2012

Google and Twitter intervene in Syrian blackout

New York Times · November 29, 2012

Internet ShutDown Reported Across Syria

VentureBeat · November 29, 2012

Israel vs. Hamas 2.0: when the fighting stopped on the street, it exploded online

PandoDaily · November 29, 2012

Not a single request from a Syrian IP address

Huffington Post · November 29, 2012

Syria’s Internet Reportedly Shut Down (UPDATES)

Fast Company · November 29, 2012

How Syrian Activists Can Get Around The Internet Blackout

AllThingsD · November 29, 2012

Syria’s Throwing of the Internet Kill Switch Raises Lots of Questions

TechCrunch · November 28, 2012

Cloudflare Now Uses Authy’s Two Factor Authentication To Keep Its Users Safe

The Next Web · November 28, 2012

To avoid repeat hacks, Cloudflare partners with Authy to implement two-factor authentication

Wired · November 28, 2012

Despite Ceasefire, Israel-Gaza War Continues Online

Forbes · November 26, 2012

Forbes Up and Comers: Jamie Quint, Andrew Geant, Matthew Prince, Philip Fierlinger

Dark Reading · November 26, 2012

Evolving DDoS Attacks Force Defenders To Adapt

GigaOm · November 15, 2012

6 ways big data is helping reinvent enterprise security

Netcraft · November 12, 2012

Cloudflare accelerates 235,000 websites

Washington Post · November 08, 2012

What it’s like to use the Internet in China

Wall Street Journal · November 07, 2012

Why Using the Internet in China is So Frustrating These Days

Network World · November 06, 2012

Google Services went down for 30 minutes in Asia this morning, CDN says

Wired · November 06, 2012

How A Network Snafu In Indonesia Blocked Google In California

VentureBeat · November 06, 2012

How a Cloudflare network engineer fixed a Google outage last night

Ars Technica · November 06, 2012

How an Indonesian ISP took down the mighty Google for 30 minutes

CSO Australia · November 02, 2012

Don’t blame Oz hosts for DDoS- amplifying DNS servers

IT News · November 02, 2012

Open DNS resolvers behind gigantic DDoS

The Wall Street Journal · November 02, 2012

China Hardens Grip Before Meeting

Security Week · November 01, 2012

GlobalSign And Cloudflare Team To Speed Up HTTPS Content

October 2012

Ars Technica · October 18, 2012

One big cluster: How Cloudflare launched 10 data centers in 30 days

Wall Street Journal · October 16, 2012

Network and Internet Technologies

Wired · October 12, 2012

Cloudflare Lights Up Without Big-Name Server-Sellers

VentureBeat · October 09, 2012

Cloudflare is now adding 30K new customers a week, and just passed 2B pageviews per employee

CIO · October 08, 2012

Why Putting Your Data Center in Canada Makes Sense

September 2012

Credit Union Times · September 28, 2012

DDoS Hacker Attacks on Banks Escalating

Softpedia · September 26, 2012

DDoS Attacks Take the Day Off During Holidays, Study Shows

NakedSecurity · September 26, 2012

How Earth Day could save both the planet... and the internet

Bloomberg TV · September 26, 2012

Wells Fargo Is Latest Bank Hit By Cyber Attacks

InformationWeek · September 17, 2012

10 Cyber Threats Small Businesses Can't Ignore

TechCrunch · September 16, 2012

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince On Beating Disrupt Battlefield Nerves And Avoiding Site Meltdowns

TechCrunch · September 03, 2012

From Disrupt Runner-Up To $22 Million In Funding, Cloudflare Tells All

August 2012

TechVibes · August 20, 2012

San Francisco's Cloudflare Opens New Facility in Canada

Entrepreneur · August 20, 2012

10 Inspiring Quotes from Women Tech Leaders

Infosecurity Magazine · August 16, 2012

Cloudflare helps restore WikiLeaks

TechWeek Europe · August 14, 2012

WikiLeaks back online after 10Gbps DDoS

The Dissenter · August 13, 2012

WikiLeaks Site Operational After Major Week-Long Cyber Attack

TechCrunch · August 13, 2012

Cloudflare Helps Save WikiLeaks’ Bacon

TopHosts.com · August 13, 2012

Cloudflare Adds Canadian Data Centre to Worldwide Network

TechCrunch · August 12, 2012

Cloudflare’s Exploding Growth: Half A Trillion Pageviews All-Time, 70B Monthlies, 600M Uniques

SC Magazine · August 10, 2012

WikiLeaks undergoing massive denial-of-service attack

IT World Canada · August 03, 2012

Cloudflare opens Toronto data centre

Entrepreneur · August 02, 2012

What ‘DDoS’ Attacks Are and How to Survive Them

July 2012

The Register · July 30, 2012

Cloudflare condenses in Australia Claims bandwidth prices are causing data drain

ZDNet · July 30, 2012

Iceland should be the clean, green future of datacentres. So why aren't more firms going there?

Business Insider · July 25, 2012

How to Make Sure Your Website is Safe and Secure When You Are Out Enjoying Some Sun and Fun

VentureBeat · July 18, 2012

Cloudflare: More Traffic than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram and Apple Combined

GreatResponder · July 18, 2012

Railgun – An Optimized Hosting Platform Launched by Cloudflare in Partnership with Vexxhost Web Hosting and Others

Web Hosting Industry Review · July 16, 2012

Cloudflare Launches Optimized Hosting Provider Program with Railgun Technology – HostingCon 2012

The Next Web · July 16, 2012

Catching up with Cloudflare: A new network of Web hosts can cache the uncacheable

PolicyMic · July 09, 2012

DNSChanger Doomsday Maware Monday: All You Need to Know to Avoid Internet Blackout

Forbes · July 09, 2012

Women in Technology: Finding Your Inner Geek Is The Key To Success

iTechPost · July 08, 2012

Quarter-Million Internet Users Worldwide to Lose Connection Monday – Protect your Computer Now

AllThingsD · July 05, 2012

Why a Quarter-Million People Around the World May Lose Internet Monday

June 2012

The Whir · June 29, 2012

Google adds EU cluster, SSL encryption to app engine platform

The Whir · June 29, 2012

Google adds EU cluster, SSL encryption to app engine platform

Eurovision · June 28, 2012

Eurovision 2012, a success online

Dark Reading · June 22, 2012

Broader Digital Landscape Means More Places To Hide

SC Magazine · June 18, 2012

Responding to a security incident, what we’re looking for

Press release · June 15, 2012

Cloudflare's Rocketship Growth: 100 Million Daily Active Users, 50 Billion Monthly Page Views, Nine New Global Data Centers

TechCrunch · June 15, 2012

Making The Web Faster: Cloudflare Adds Support For Google’s SPDY Protocol

The Whir · June 07, 2012

Cloudflare CEO Talks Gmail Hack, Web Hosts, New Service Levels for Business

TechCrunch · June 06, 2012

Cloudflare Launches Business and Enterprise Accounts with Support, SLAs, DDoS Mitigation and A Railgun

Press release · June 06, 2012

Cloudflare Launches Business and Enterprise Services

PCMag · June 06, 2012

Facebook Alerts Users About DNSChanger Malware

The Whir · June 01, 2012

Orpheum Hosting Offers Cloudflare Security and Performance Service

May 2012

The Economist · May 29, 2012

The number is no longer in service

The Next Web · May 29, 2012

Netflix and Comcast among companies tapped by FCC for net-neutrality panel

TechCrunch · May 25, 2012

Cloudflare To Launch Service For Sites Dealing With Tortuous EU Cookie Law

Fast Company · May 17, 2012

Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age

Dark Reading · May 14, 2012

Websites Select Security Services To Suppress DDoS, Other Attacks

San Francisco Business Times · May 11, 2012

Cloudflare: On a mission to protect the Internet

San Francisco Business Times · May 09, 2012

Tech & Innovation Awardees revealed

TweakTown · May 03, 2012

Cloudflare and OpenDNS team up to raise awareness of DNSChanger Malware

TheNextWeb · May 03, 2012

Cloudflare and OpenDNS team up to help raise awareness of the DNSChanger malware

April 2012

TechCrunch · April 20, 2012

Cloudflare Wants to Make Your Site Look Like A Billion Bucks With Instaflare

PandoDaily · April 20, 2012

Cloudflare Offers Independent Developers Access to Its 400k-Strong Network (and Everyone Else a $1B Feature)

VentureBeat · April 20, 2012

Cloudflare’s Instaflare is an Instagram for all the images on your website—seriously

VentureBeat · April 20, 2012

Cloudflare’s Instaflare is an Instagram for all the images on your website—seriously

Bloomberg · April 19, 2012

Google Seeks Billions by Boosting Mobile Internet Speeds

Chaotic Flow · April 18, 2012

Cloudflare | Crowdsourcing Web Traffic Control

The Next Web · April 15, 2012

Last Week in Asia: China's Web kill switch, 4G comes to India, Japan gets Twitter brand pages and more

The Wall Street Journal · April 13, 2012

New Clarity On China Internet Outage

TechNewsWorld · April 13, 2012

Strange Internet Rumblings Coming From China

The Wall Street Journal · April 13, 2012

China Seeks to Contain Buzz Around Bo Xilai

Ars Technica · April 13, 2012

Great Firewall Hiccup? China loses Internet connectivity for an hour

Gigaom · April 11, 2012

How the Cloud Could Bring Big Data to your Local Deli

The WHIR · April 05, 2012

DreamHost Integrates Cloudflare Performance, Security Tools into Web Hosting Plans

ReadWriteWeb · April 03, 2012

New Managed Content Protection from Cloudflare

March 2012

The Next Web · March 29, 2012

ScrapeShield from Cloudflare: A one-click solution to end website content scraping

Inc.com · March 21, 2012

8 Bizarre Tricks for Start-Up Success

TriplePundit · March 19, 2012

What’s Life Really Like for Female Tech Entrepreneurs?

Forbes · March 18, 2012

Giving Back: How Every Startup Can Be Philanthropic

TechCentral · March 15, 2012

Behind the scenes at LulzSec: no laughing matter

Forbes · March 12, 2012

What Kara Swisher (Really) Thinks About Boys, Girls And Getting More Women Into Tech

February 2012

Forbes · February 29, 2012

How Cloudflare's Free DDoS-Protection Service Is Disrupting the Multibillion Dollar Computer Security and Content Delivery Markets

CNN · February 29, 2012

An inside view of LulzSec's hacking rampage

New Scientist · February 28, 2012

How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

PC Magazine · February 28, 2012

RSA: In the Trenches with LulzSec

The New York Times · February 17, 2012

Preparing for DDoS Attacks or Just Groundhog Day

SYS-CON Media · February 07, 2012

Cloudflare CEO: China is Company's Second-Largest Market

IDG Connect · February 02, 2012

A Drive Through the Internet Traffic of 2011 and 2012: The Road Ahead

SYS-CON Media · February 01, 2012

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on Performance and Security

January 2012

NetworkWorld · January 26, 2012

6 Security Companies to Watch

Bloomberg Businessweek · January 19, 2012

Cloudflare, the Startup That Thwarts Hackers

All Things Digital · January 18, 2012

App Makers Craft Code for Protesting SOPA

The Next Web · January 17, 2012

Cloudflare’s new app gives site owners a 1-click alternative to ineffective blackouts

TechCrunch · January 16, 2012

Cloudflare Builds ‘Stop Censorship’ App, Lets Sites Easily “Black Out” Against SOPA

IT News · January 12, 2012

Stratfor: We actually got hacked twice

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