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2022 - 6 - 21

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Cloudflare outage knocks popular services offline (TechCrunch)

A Cloudflare outage has hit several popular services including Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN, and Feedly. Other popular services that have ...

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Cloudflare outage breaks large swathes of the internet (The Verge)

The problems appear to have started at around 2:30AM ET. As of 3:20AM ET Cloudflare reports that “a fix is being implemented.” The issues are most problematic ...

Cloudflare has experienced similar issues in the past such as in July and August 2020. Multiple Verge staff members found they were unable to access any websites at all during the outage as a result of using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS service. I found that simply switching back to using my ISP’s default DNS settings resolved most of my issues.

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Cloudflare service hit by 'widespread issues', but a fix is coming (ZDNet)

Cloudflare is one of today's major content delivery networks (CDNs). The US firm also provides Distributed Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection to online domains, ...

Furthermore, the company said the incident impacted connectivity in Cloudflare's network in "broad regions," leading to 500 errors. It appears that service has been restored to some websites and online platforms taken offline by the problem in Cloudflare's network. On Tuesday morning, a number of websites and online services suddenly went down including Feedly, Cloudflare itself, blogs, cryptocurrency services, and more.

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Cloudflare outage briefly takes down many websites: All you need to ... (The Indian Express)

A brief outage at Cloudflare-a popular CDN choice for many companies, took down multiple websites across the globe earlier today, many of which were left ...

Indianexpress.com can confirm that many websites including Canva, Streamyard and the Nothing website are now working after being briefly down. These included websites like Discord, Canva, Streamyard and even the official website for London-based startup Nothing. Cloudflare quickly acknowledged the outage via a tweet, and announced soon after that it was working on a fix.

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Google, EFF back Cloudflare in row over pirate streams (The Register)

Google, EFF, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have filed court documents supporting Cloudflare after it was sued for refusing ...

- Vulnerability - Trojan - Cybersecurity Also on June 16, Google submitted a letter expressing its concern about the scope of the injunction. Its lawyers noted in court filings [ Earlier this year, a handful of Israel-based media companies took Israel.tv to court, accusing it of streaming TV and movie content it had no right to distribute.

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Massive Cloudflare outage caused by network configuration error (BleepingComputer)

Cloudflare says a massive outage that affected more than a dozen of its data centers and hundreds of major online platforms and services today was caused by ...

This was delayed as network engineers walked over each other's changes, reverting the previous reverts, causing the problem to re-appear sporadically. 3:56 UTC: We deploy the change to our first location. This is when the incident started, as this swiftly took these 19 locations offline. "Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic. "This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations," the Cloudflare team added. This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations."

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Cloudflare explains how it managed to break the internet (The Register)

The incident began at 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific Time) and it took until 0742 UTC (0042 Pacific) before the company managed to bring all its datacenters back online ...

Large cloud providers have to manage a vast degree of complexity and moving parts, significantly increasing the risk of an outage." It is completely unsustainable for an outage with one provider being able to bring vast swathes of the internet offline. Things still seemed OK... However, by 0627 UTC (2327 Pacific), the change hit the MCP-enabled locations, rattled through the mesh layer and... Moving forward to 0617 UTC (2317 Pacific) and the change was deployed to one of the company's busiest locations, but not an MCP-enabled one. What had happened was a change to the company's prefix advertisement policies, resulting in the withdrawal of a critical subset of prefixes. During this time a variety of sites and services relying on Cloudflare went dark while engineers frantically worked to undo the damage they had wrought short hours previously.

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Cloudflare outage temporarily takes down hundreds of websites (ComputerWeekly.com)

Downtime incident at web application security and performance firm Cloudflare has wide-reaching consequences for internet service providers.

“Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now. Huge chunks of the internet being inaccessible due to Cloudflare being down highlights a problem. The company confirmed in a statement on its service status page that it had suffered a “critical incident” and connectivity in its network has been “disrupted in broad regions” as a result.

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Cloudflare, Microsoft 365 suffer major outages | IT World Canada ... (IT World Canada)

Two major IT providers suffered service problems this morning, causing CIOs and CISOs hours of grief. A huge outage affected more than a dozen of content ...

“This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations,” officials said. A change in policy can mean a previously advertised prefix is no longer advertised, known as being “withdrawn”, and those IP addresses will no longer be reachable on the Internet. Over the last 18 months Cloudflare has been trying to convert all of its busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture, the company said. This mesh allows Cloudflare to easily disable and enable parts of the internal network in a data center for maintenance or to deal with a problem It began around 2:34 a.m. Eastern time and was reported by the company to be resolved about an hour and a half later. That expanded to the realization that multiple Microsoft 365 services were experiencing delays, connection and search issues.

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Cloudflare Outage Impacts Crypto, Dating, and Shopping Platforms (Entrepreneur)

A Cloudflare outage affected several popular platforms such as Shopify, Grindr, Fitbit and some of the largest crypto exchanges. By Madeline Garfinkle June 21, ...

Decentralized exchanges —which involve a direct transaction between users — still incorporate risk, but the assets are stored in the self-custodian wallets rather than on an entire platform. While centralized exchanges are monitored by regulators, some argue they are more susceptible to hackers due to a larger volume of traders. "The Cloudflare team is aware of the current service issues and is working to resolve as quickly as possible," the company tweeted around 3 a.m.

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Cloudflare outage brings hundreds of sites, services temporarily offline (Computerworld)

The Tuesday outage took just under two hours to fix, and follows similar disruption last week that caused network performance issues across India, ...

"More often than not, while choosing or building a service, there is a focus on the kind of features and capabilities that the service would offer. "Due to the nature of the incident, customers may have had difficulty reaching websites and services that rely on Cloudflare from approximately 0628-0720 UTC. Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now." The incident on Tuesday was first recognised on Cloudflare’s status page at 7:43 a.m. GMT, where the company posted a statement saying: "Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been disrupted in broad regions.

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Cloudflare Outage Causes Major Global Internet Disruptions (CRN)

Company acknowledges interruption was due to 'our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.' By Jay Fitzgerald June 21, 2022, ...

In its blog post, Cloudflare wrote: “Although Cloudflare has invested significantly in our MCP design to improve service availability, we clearly fell short of our customer expectations with this very painful incident. “In this time, we’ve converted 19 of our data centers to this architecture, internally called Multi-Colo PoP (MCP).” “Unfortunately, these 19 locations handle a significant proportion of our global traffic,” the company said. This was our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.” “It wasn‘t an issue caused by someone else.” “

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Cloudflare Outage Knocks Hundreds of Websites Offline (Infosecurity Magazine)

The list is extensive and includes technology giants such as Discord, Medium, Coinbase, NordVPN and Feedly.

“Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers. This was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations.” Shortly after that, the company posted a series of Twitter posts confirming its team was actively working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.

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Cloudflare outage takes down websites globally for over an hour ... (Business Standard)

The effect was felt by users of some of the key hotspots of internet traffic, such as Twitter, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Discord, Zerodha, Shopify, ...

More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. As we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content. This mesh allows Cloudflare to easily disable and enable parts of the internal network in a data centre for maintenance or to deal with a problem, the internet infrastructure firm said. The outage had raised questions about the reliance of the internet on a few infrastructure companies. Last year, a major global internet outage took place on June 9, which Fastly, the company behind the issue, said was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings. Over the last 18 months, Cloudflare has been working to convert all of its busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture.

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Huge Swaths of the Internet Go Down During Cloudflare Outage ... (Gizmodo)

Discord, Medium, and DoorDash experienced problems. Cloudflare reported the outage lasted about two hours.

A large number of websites went down early Tuesday, including many tied to Cloudflare, a web security company that provides services like protection against DDoS attacks. Update, 4:45 a.m.: Cloudflare now reports that everything has returned to normal and “all systems” are “operational.” Other websites with issues appear to be League of Legends, Crunchyroll, and Mediacom, according to Down Detector.

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Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out 'Significant Portion' of Global Traffic (Channel Futures)

Cloudflare experienced a widespread outage early Tuesday that knocked out a significant portion of its global traffic. It was fixed in roughly an hour.

“While cloud services can undoubtedly be highly advantageous for companies, the ever-present jeopardy of a severe outage is there.” “This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in our busiest locations,” it said. “We have already started working on the changes outlined … and will continue our diligence to ensure this cannot happen again.” Given Cloudflare’s scale and the percentage of the internet that relies on our network, when we have problems it is vital that we are open and transparent about what happened, why it happened, and what we’re doing to ensure it doesn’t happen again.” Due to the nature of the incident, customers may have had difficulty reaching websites and services that rely on Cloudflare [for approximately one hour]. Cloudflare was working on a fix within minutes, and the network is running normally now. Cloudflare experienced a widespread outage early Tuesday that knocked out a significant portion of its global traffic.

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Cloudflare confirms outage caused by datacentre network ... (ComputerWeekly.com)

Website application security firm Cloudflare has published a review into the cause of the short-lived outage that rendered hundreds of websites ...

We have already started working on [making] changes and will continue our diligence to ensure this cannot happen again,” it concluded. is an added layer of routing that creates a mesh of connections. “Over the last 18 months, Cloudflare has been working to convert all of our busiest locations to a more flexible and resilient architecture,” said the blog post.

2022-06-22 | NYSE:NET | Press Release | Cloudflare Inc. Class A (Stockhouse)

At the Microsoft Security Excellence 2022 Awards on June 6, 2022, Microsoft announced award winners in 10 categories honoring partner trailblazers, solution ...

Forward-looking statements expressed or implied in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the capabilities and effectiveness of the Cloudflare One suite of Zero Trust solutions, the benefits to Cloudflare’s customers from using the Cloudflare One suite of Zero Trust solutions and Cloudflare’s other products and technology, the expected functionality and performance of the Cloudflare One suite of Zero Trust solutions and Cloudflare’s other products and technology, Cloudflare’s participation in MISA and the potential resulting benefits to Cloudflare, the potential benefits to customers of integrating Cloudflare and Microsoft products, the potential opportunity for Cloudflare to attract additional customers and to expand sales to existing customers through Cloudflare’s participation in MISA, Cloudflare’s technological development, future operations, growth, initiatives, or strategies, and comments made by Cloudflare’s SVP of Special Projects and others. Cloudflare, the Cloudflare logo, and other Cloudflare marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Cloudflare, Inc. in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. Cloudflare undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law. MISA was established to bring together Microsoft leaders, ISVs, and MSSPs to work together to defeat security threats and make the world a safer place. Cloudflare’s deep integrations across Microsoft 365 and Azure have supported many of the largest Fortune 500 companies on their Zero Trust journey, enabling customers to simply and easily support security and performance needs with faster performance. Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced it has won the Security Software Innovator award in the Microsoft Security Excellence Awards ceremony.

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