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DNS and internet security provider Cloudflare has blocked Kiwi Farms, an infamous forum known for its online and real-world harassment campaigns. CEO Matthew Prince announced the company’s decision on Saturday after it initially resisted calls to stop protecting the website. “As Kiwi Farms has felt more threatened, they have reacted by being more threatening,” Prince told . “We think there is an imminent danger, and the pace at which law enforcement is able to respond to those threats we don’t think is fast enough to keep…

Cloudflare, a website security and hosting provider, announced on Saturday that it had blocked Kiwi Farms, an online forum known for hateful content. In a post on Cloudflare’s blog, the company said Kiwi Farms posed an “immediate threat to human life,” citing an increase of “targeted threats” over the past two days. Concerns about Kiwi Farms grew after transgender YouTuber and Twitch streamer, Clara Sorrenti (Keffals), had been targeted by a dangerous harassment campaign by users from the site. Last month, Kiwi Farms…

Cloudflare has developed a new Domain Name System (DNS) standard with Apple and cloud service provider Fastly that is aimed to deliver better Internet privacy to end consumers. Called Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH), the new protocol is designed to anonymise Web browsing information before sending it to Internet providers. It also comes as an extension to the existing DNS over HTTPS (DoH) that is meant to protect DNS requests sent from your computer to a server. Cloudflare has partnered with proxy providers including…

Researchers say that a mysterious “threat actor” (a fancy term for a hacker or hacker group) has managed to steal nearly 10,000 login credentials from the employees of 130 organizations, in the latest far-reaching supply chain attack on corporate America. It began with the identify verification and password management tool Okta, according to the report published Thursday. The hacking campaign could have lasted months.The news comes from research conducted bycybersecurity firm Group-IB, which began looking into the…

Over 130 organisations have been compromised in a sophisticated attack using simple phishing kits, that exposed the credentials of close to 10,000 employees.Same hackers attacked communications giant Twilio and as part of the breach, end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal revealed last week that hackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes of 1,900 users.According to cybersecurity company Group-IB, the attack on Twilio was part of a wider campaign by "0ktapus" hacking group.Based on the request from…

Image: Getty/gilaxiaCloudflare has detailed what it describes as a "targeted phishing attack" against its staff that was prevented from doing damage because all employees are required to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the form of physical security keys in order to access applications. That meant that even with the correct usernames and passwords, the attackers couldn't access accounts and no systems were compromised. According to cybersecurity researchers at Cloudflare who analysed the attack, it was a…

Cloudflare Co-Founder and CEO Matthew Prince speaks on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin on December 12, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.Noam Galai | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesCloudflare shares jumped more than 27% on Friday, after the content distribution network and security provider announced second-quarter results and full-year guidance that exceeded analysts' predictions. It was the stock's best day since its 2019 New York Stock Exchange debut. Revenue climbed 54% from a year earlier to $234.5 million,…

Nov 2, 2019 San Francisco / CA / USA - Exterior view of Cloudflare headquarters; Cloudflare, Inc. is an Ameircan web infrastructure and website security companyPhoto: Sundry Photography (Shutterstock)Last year, IT firm Cloudflare launched an email routing service, giving users the ability to set up a large number of addresses connected to the same inbox. Email routing can be a powerful privacy tool, as it allows you to hide your actual email address behind a network of temporary or “burnable” addresses. Unfortunately, as…

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales.Gizmodo is 20 years old! To celebrate the anniversary, we’re looking back at some of the most significant ways our lives have been thrown for a loop by our digital tools.Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia in 2001. In the years since, users have contributed more than six million articles, and the online encyclopedia has become one of the most-visited sites on the web. Gizmodo recently sat down with Wales to discuss how the site —and the internet at large— have changed over the last two…

One of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, Rogers Communications Inc., RCI -1.02% reported Friday outages across its nationwide network, affecting millions of its wireless phone and home internet customers, and hampering electronic-banking transactions. As of late Friday afternoon, Toronto-based Rogers said it was making progress in resolving the outage, which some customers reported started as early as 4 a.m. ET on Friday…