This spring, services from heavy hitters like Google and Facebook seemed glitchy or inaccessible for people worldwide for more than an hour. But it wasn't a hack, or even a glitch at any one ...

At the time, there was concern that the US internet itself was under attack. The real problem was much more mundane. Cloudflare's technical support reported: "This afternoon we saw an outage across ...

All around the world Friday websites and services went all cattywampus as Cloudflare's backbone network suffered the technological equivalent of a stroke. Any other week, this would have been a major ...

So, BGP removes the default. This change propagates through BGP to the MPLS providers. The carrier’s MPLS backbone picks a default route from another hub site, reconverges, and Internet traffic flows ...

You couldn't use WhatsApp or Instagram because Facebook's data centers were completely disconnected after a seemingly mundane event caused a catastrophic outage. Facebook's hours-long outage on Sunday ...