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…
Now, more than ever, the Internet has become a critical lifeline for billions of people around the world impacted by COVID-19. A vast portion of the workforce is working remotely. Students at every level are learning online. Fitness classes, religious services, and medical appointments have gone digital. Social interactions are…
