On September 6th starting at 10:40 am Pacific time, ThousandEyes detected a major disruption of user access to Wikipedia sites from around the world that lasted nine hours. Wikipedia’s German Twitter account shared that the site was “being paralyzed by a massive and very broad DDoS attack,” as translated from…
If you haven’t considered how risky it is to rely on the Internet to carry your mission-critical customer and employee digital experiences, then the month of June 2019 alone can serve as a great learning opportunity, with three distinct and far-reaching examples of just how fragile the Internet is. On…
If you’ve spent most of your time dealing with enterprise or carrier networks, one of the things that is surprising is the sheer unpredictability of the Internet. Yesterday from 10:50am to 11:30am BST and from 1:10pm to 2:13pm BST, ThousandEyes detected service disruption to WhatsApp for a limited set of…
Moving critical applications and services to the cloud brings unprecedented power to IT teams who no longer have to worry about building and maintaining infrastructure. At the same time, cloud computing introduces a solid dose of unpredictability due to the sheer complexity of the Internet and cloud connectivity. We get…
At 12:30 PM PDT on May 13th, China Telecom experienced a significant outage that lasted for nearly five hours, with after effects for some hours further. Coming as it did at a moment of heightened tensions with the United States over trade policies, it may be tempting to jump to…