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When the Safety Net Snaps
It happened again. The one thing that’s not supposed to go down … went down. This morning, Cloudflare — the safety net of the internet, the infrastructure under the infrastructure — tripped over itself and faceplanted. If AWS is the backbone, Cloudflare is the connective tissue. It’s the silent middle layer that makes sure your site doesn’t go dark when other things do. Except today, it did. And when Cloudflare stumbles, it’s not just one site that goes offline — it’s an ent

Rich Washburn
Nov 184 min read


Inside the CrowdStrike Outage: Understanding Kernel Mode Vulnerabilities
In a recent incident that left Windows machines around the world blue-screening, CrowdStrike, a prominent cybersecurity firm, found...

Rich Washburn
Jul 22, 20243 min read


Ripple Effect: The Far-Reaching Effects of Microsoft's Recent Outage
Microsoft Windows users worldwide are experiencing a severe outage due to an update associated with CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor. This...

Rich Washburn
Jul 19, 20243 min read
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