Tag: Outage
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Christmas Eve Crash: Massive Steam Outage Derails Holiday Gaming and Sales
Recently, a notable disruption struck the Steam platform: a segment of users was unable to access the store, enter community hubs, or reliably use online features in games. The outage affected both PC and Valve’s mobile applications, derailing purchases and online matches for many. According to Engadget, the issues began on December 24 at approximately…
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Cloudflare Outage Caused by Frantic Patching of Critical React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) Flaw
Cloudflare’s global infrastructure has suffered a second major outage in less than a month — and it has now become clear that the cause was not an attack, but a frantic effort to patch a critical flaw in the widely used JavaScript library React, a vulnerability dubbed React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182). Early in the morning of 5…
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Cloudflare Outage 2.0: Faulty React Patch Configuration Disrupts Major Websites
Cloudflare’s services suffered yet another disruption on Friday morning, rendering LinkedIn, Zoom, Downdetector, and a number of other platforms — including Canva, Shopify, and the Indian brokerage Groww — temporarily inaccessible. This marks the second major outage for the cloud-infrastructure provider in less than a month. According to the company, the incident stemmed from changes…
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Cloudflare Outage: Internal Failure Shuts Down Sites, Exposing Hidden Security Gaps
A major outage in Cloudflare’s infrastructure became an unexpected test of resilience for countless companies. On 18 November, disruptions across the provider’s services repeatedly knocked websites offline worldwide, and some customers attempted to temporarily leave the platform in order to maintain availability. This emergency maneuver had an additional consequence: for several hours, web applications lost…
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The Global Cascade: AWS Outage Caused by Automated DNS Race Condition
Amazon has published a comprehensive technical report detailing the outage that paralyzed major online platforms and triggered a cascading wave of failures across its global AWS cloud infrastructure. The disruption originated within one of the most critical components of Amazon’s ecosystem—the DNS management subsystem of DynamoDB. Due to a flaw in its automation mechanism, the…
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Cloudflare Outage Caused by a Single Coding Error
On September 12, Cloudflare experienced an outage lasting more than an hour, triggered by a coding error in its management dashboard. The disruption affected not only the interface itself but also a wide range of the company’s API services. The root cause was traced to the improper use of the React hook useEffect—a mechanism which,…
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Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver Hit by Global Outage, Websites Inaccessible
Cloudflare has reported a temporary disruption affecting its public DNS resolver, 1.1.1.1, an issue that drew complaints from users around the globe. According to available data, the incident began on the evening of July 14, 2025, at approximately 22:13 UTC. The company has confirmed that it is actively investigating the matter and working toward resolution.…