{"id":160368,"date":"2016-04-04T07:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T05:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=160368"},"modified":"2016-04-04T07:48:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T05:48:47","slug":"cloudflare-versus-tor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/160368-cloudflare-versus-tor.html","title":{"rendered":"CloudFlare versus Tor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.torproject.org\/blog\/trouble-cloudflare\"><strong>Tor has accused CloudFlare<\/strong><\/a> of using a failed methodology, which sees\u00a0most requests from its platform being blocked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suspect this is based on a flawed methodology by which CloudFlare labels all traffic from an IP address that has ever sent spam as malicious,\u201d said Tor.<\/p>\n<p>Tor said its IP addresses are conduits for millions of people who are then blocked from reaching websites under CloudFlare&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/the-trouble-with-tor\/\"><strong>CloudFlare said<\/strong><\/a> while online anonymity is important, it poses many new challenges &#8211; like providing value to online attackers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious,\u201d said CloudFlare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA large percentage of the comment spam, vulnerability scanning, ad click fraud, content scraping, and login scanning comes via the Tor network,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Tor and security<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/158269-you-can-be-tracked-online-through-your-mouse-movements.html\">You can be tracked online through your mouse movements<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/157889-this-is-what-happens-when-your-computer-gets-infected-with-ransomware.html\">This is what happens when your computer gets infected with ransomware<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/157633-apple-users-targeted-in-ransomware-attack.html\"><strong>Apple users targeted in ransomware attack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tor has accused CloudFlare of blocking requests from its platform, which it says is based on a flawed methodology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,29694,2818],"class_list":["post-160368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-cloudflare","tag-tor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160372,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160368\/revisions\/160372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}