Cyber attacks in the Israel-Hamas war, DDoS threat trends, and Internet disruptions

In this week's program, João Tomé is initially joined by Omer Yoachimik (based in London, UK), Cloudflare’s product manager for DDoS Protection and Security Reporting. They discuss two blog posts written this week related to cyberattacks in the Israel-Hamas war and our DDoS threat report for Q3 2023. They cover DDoS attacks against Israeli and Palestinian websites, record-breaking hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks enabled by VM-based botnets, and how users and companies can stay protected.

Next, we go to Boston, in the US, to discuss with David Belson, our head of Data Insights, our Q3 2023 Internet disruption summary. They cover various causes of outages, from government-directed exam-related Internet shutdowns to the earthquake in Morocco and fires in Hawaii, along with problems related to damage to submarine cables. They also highlight the disruptions caused more recently in Palestinian networks in the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing conflict.

There’s still time to highlight how Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise, something we are going to delve more deeply into next week on the show. Additionally, we discuss how our Cache Rules product, alongside Cache Reserve (to enhance control to minimize egress costs), is now generally available, providing users with a better quality of life. We also announce three new features that will help make Email Routing more secure, flexible, and powerful than ever. This includes Email Routing subdomain support, new APIs, and security protocols.

In our “Around NET” short segment, Dan Hollinger joins us from Munich, Germany. Then, in the “Ask the CTO” segment, our CTO, John Graham-Cumming, answers an audience question about how his background in mathematics shapes his approach to tech and programming.

You can check the mentioned blog posts:

• Cyber attacks in the Israel-Hamas war
• DDoS threat report for 2023 Q3
• Q3 2023 Internet disruption summary
• How Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
• Introducing HAR Sanitizer: secure HAR sharing
• Cache Rules are now GA: precision control over every part of your cache
• Cache Reserve goes GA: enhanced control to minimize egress costs
• Email Routing subdomain support, new APIs and security protocols
• Empowering our partners with the new Tenant Platform dashboard