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For 96 years, the World Cup has been a global phenomenon, uniting nations and communities through a shared love of sportsmanship. While its popularity is nothing new, what is novel today is how rare a truly collective global experience has become. In an era defined by microtrends and algorithmic bubbles, it is increasingly uncommon for people across most countries to engage i...

Starting today, Cloudflare Internal DNS is generally available. Cloudflare Internal DNS provides authoritative and recursive DNS for private networks on the same global network and control plane customers already use for public DNS, Zero Trust, networking, and application services.

Internal DNS — sometimes also referred to as private DNS — is one of the last pieces of e...

Cloudflare has deployed new Web Application Firewall (WAF) protections for two critical vulnerabilities affecting WordPress. The protections address an Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in WordPress's REST API and a related SQL Injection vulnerability.

The WordPress security team disclosed the vulnerabilities to Cloudflare before public release s...

On July 3, 2026, the Albanian communications authority (AKEP), the operator of the .AL country-code top-level domain (TLD) of Albania, attempted a DNSSEC key rollover. Something went wrong, resulting in DNSSEC validation failures. Any validating DNS resolver receiving these signatures was required by the DNSSEC specification to reject them and return errors to clients. That i...

Bot mitigation is an adversarial game: attackers adapt, defenders respond, and the cycle continues. At Cloudflare, we stay ahead by combining visibility across our global network with signals from the client-side environment. At the network level, we analyze over 1 trillion requests per day to understand reputation, patterns, and anomalies across more than 20% of the w...