Cloudfare

There was some issues with Cloudflare. Many sites were down for a few hours, not just Gaf.
But it seems they have sorted things out.


Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users.

Many sites came back online within a few hours. In an update to its status page around 9:57 a.m. ET, Cloudflare said it had implemented a fix to resolve the issues, though it noted some users may still experience issues accessing its online dashboard.

"We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal," the company added.
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A Cloudflare spokesperson said the company observed a "spike in unusual traffic" to one of its services around 6:20 a.m. ET, causing some traffic passing through its network to experience errors.
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"We do not yet know the cause of the spike in unusual traffic," the spokesperson added. "We are all hands on deck to make sure all traffic is served without errors."
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A "spike in unusual traffic" sounds a lot like a DDOS attack. The question is who did it?
 
Base a lot of Internet infrastructure on several companies, highly qualified technicians are hard to get because they've been already replaced by AI - what can go wrong?
 
It was allegedly a maintenance issue and not a disruption.

Still, it serves as an example of what could occur during a world wide outage. Dependence of a few big multipolar providers results in SPOFs.

nush said:
We need our own Gafflare.
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I was thinking about suggesting a GAF DoSS shield for redundancy or fallback. Already seen some custom solutions in the wild. Could be pretty expensive though.
 
Got any gaf
dave chappelle tyrone biggums GIF
 
Nocty

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I've been warning people about the threat of cyber attacks increasing exponentially over the coming years as we are seeing daily attacks at work (British nuclear defence).

The attacks come from Asia mostly, but since the AI and LLM boom the cybersec team have been expanded 3x and are stacked out daily. One of the lead engineers said to us it is getting harder and harder to stop and that Cloudflare is critical.
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Nocty said:
I've been warning people about the threat of cyber attacks increasing exponentially over the coming years as we are seeing daily attacks at work (British nuclear defence).

The attacks come from Asia mostly, but since the AI and LLM boom the cybersec team have been expanded 3x and are stacked out daily. One of the lead engineers said to us it is getting harder and harder to stop and that Cloudflare is critical. I invested heavily in the stock 3 years ago.
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