Category: Outage

  • How Github was hacked

    How Github was hacked

    Reading Time: 5 minutesTo understand that first we need to trace the sequence of events before it’d happened. And, God, there were MANY: Coincidence? Outages stopped only after May 26. Looks like the hackers were trying different approaches since at least February or actively pulling the data from the servers. And while the Github CyberSecs…

  • Was it finally fixed, Vercel?

    Was it finally fixed, Vercel?

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIt seems not a day goes by without some cloud outage or critical vulnerability issue. Let’s try to analyze the recent CloudFlare outage (not again 😩) caused by the react server components. The issue is very critical. Basically any unauthorized client can execute an arbitrary code on the server.

  • What hyperscalers are hiding from you? Tell about recent waves of internet services outages.

    What hyperscalers are hiding from you? Tell about recent waves of internet services outages.

    Reading Time: 3 minutesJust for the last month we saw 2 global internet outages with AWS (us-east-1 region) and CloudFlare (global network outage) causing availability issues for many popular services e.g. X, ChatGPT, Spotify and even MC terminals. While the world moving forward with the AI adoption it’s not a coincidence it’s a consequence. Postmortems…