Cloudflare explains outage that took down much of internet
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A massive technical failure at Cloudflare, a critical internet infrastructure provider, caused widespread outages for major platforms including OpenAI, Twitter (X), and Spotify. The incident, which began around 12:00 UTC on November 18,
Parts of the internet were knocked offline Tuesday after a major Cloudflare outage disrupted access to platforms including X and Letterboxd.
Millions of people were affected as major websites were disrupted on Tuesday due to a major technical failure at Cloudflare, which is a critical internet infrastructure provider. OpenAI, Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) and Spotify were among the affected sites,
According to CBS News, reports of outages and problems accessing apps including X and video game League of Legends surged on Tuesday morning
The new Cloudflare DNS server, 1.1.1.1, is a free, fast, and “privacy-focused” way to connect URLs to IP addresses. Cloudflare is an internet security service that helps to secure and speed up millions of sites on the internet. The Cloudflare DNS ...
Cloudflare Inc is a US based company that provides content delivery network services, cybersecurity tools, and protection against distributed denial of service attacks, along with several other internet support services.
Experts tracking Aisuru say the botnet relies on well more than a hundred control servers, and that for the moment at least most of those domains are registered in the .su top-level domain (TLD). Dot-su is the TLD assigned to the former Soviet Union (.su’s Wikipedia page says the TLD was created just 15 months before the fall of the Berlin wall).
Nearly every task on the Internet, from browsing to email to gaming to voice calls, involves domain-name lookups you never see happen and that are almost always insecure. Even when your activities are encrypted — whether you’re browsing https-protected ...
Cloudflare wrongly suspected that the widespread outage that took numerous websites offline on November 18 was caused by a DDoS attack, the company’s CEO has admitted. In his blog post that breaks down what happened,