They say that hindsight is 20/20, and the calendar year 2020 is certainly best observed from the rearview mirror. In the midst of a global pandemic, widespread shelter-in-place orders, and economic shutdowns, the Internet has become our most critical lifeline to staying connected and getting business done. Yet, the Internet…
Written by Angelique Medina and Archana Kesavan Yesterday, August 30th, CenturyLink/Level 3 suffered a major incident, lasting nearly 5 hours, that impacted their network, their customers, and many other ISPs and services either directly or indirectly connected to their network. The outage began at approximately 10AM UTC (6AM EST) and…
On August 19, 2020, the popular music streaming platform, Spotify, appeared to go offline for around an hour—frustrating listeners who were attempting to connect to the service. The outage appears to have occurred during business hours for most of Europe, but it was still very early in the morning for…
On Friday, July 17th, at approximately 2:15PM PDT, Cloudflare’s DNS services—which are much broader in scope than most realize—had a significant disruption that impacted approximately half of their infrastructure. The incident resolved less than 30 minutes later, but while ongoing, it caused a massive impact on Internet users, not only…
On April 1, 2020, at approximately 7:30 PM UTC, JSC Rostelecom perpetrated a large-scale BGP hijack involving more than 8,000 prefixes, including those belonging to Google, Facebook, Akamai, Cloudflare and Amazon. The hijacking occurred when Rostelecom began announcing more specific routes for these and other services, causing traffic to be…
