Netflix Christmas Catastrophe: When Too Many Viewers Broke the Cloud
On December 24, 2012, as families across North America were settling in for their traditional Christmas Eve movie marathons, something went terribly …
Detailed examinations of real-world infrastructure and security incidents
On December 24, 2012, as families across North America were settling in for their traditional Christmas Eve movie marathons, something went terribly …
At 9:30 AM on August 1, 2012, the opening bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange, marking the start of what would become one of the most …
It began, as many great security incidents do, with a seemingly innocent pull request to an obscure utility library. No one paid much attention to the …
At 2:37 AM Pacific Time on September 12, 2023, a Google Cloud network engineer in Mountain View submitted what appeared to be a routine configuration …
“Your password is incorrect. Please try again.”
From the evening of June 15 through June 18, 2024, those seven words became a nightmare …