Cloudflare's already stated that their outage yesterday was their own mistake: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage/

All of my VPS servers have been slammed in the last 5 days with bruteforce SSH attacks. I've never seen anything this aggressive. One of my servers got PWNed, which has never happened to me before. There's definitely some wild, shady shit going on.

Several european banks are also having issues with their login sites and online services. Backends are working though. I know, it's far fetched to throw them in the same bucket, and I won't, but it feels like there is happening some kind of reorganization on the net, which in the worst case would be some kind of global state-sponsored MITM-layer getting set up, maybe to prepare for new techs like 5G and TLS1.3.

I agree that the probability of these occurring so close together is very unlikely.

Separately, this is a huge blow for Instagram/Facebook since this is one of the busiest social media sharing weeks in the US. I bet a lot of their engineers are answering pagers on vacation.

Add Azure to the list. Its routing was down for about 2 hours yesterday.

So the options are:

1) a secret cyber-war is going on...

2) Some entity is installing new spying slurps

3) An (critical) IX that we werent aware of is having major issues... and we dont know who to blame on that one...

Empire BlueCross/BlueShield's site is down. Not quite in the same category but sucks if I want to file claims.

https://www.empireblue.com/

+ A large unnamed government contractor that has also been having some rare network outages throughout the week.

HN still seems to be working, perhaps they should consider hosting their own cloud?

Might be a desire to release new versions ahead of July 4th holiday.

"When it rains,it pours"

In my experience this is so true! The opposite applies as well,for some reason everything behaves quietly all at once and I turn up every leav and look under every carpet for a "problem" with the monitoring or something worse.

Probability is funny, for example I don't think anyone has explained exactly why numbers that start with '1' are so common. I think it's just geometric symmetry if complex event chains.

There was a huge Comcast outage in the bay area last week as well, although most people probably didn't notice since it happened at night.

Twitter notifications and DMs were also down today.

Heard some rumors that China might have something to do to this, related to the Hong Kong protests, but they're just rumors.

Whatsapp is having problem delivering downloads now (at least where I live)

Could it be a physical infrastructure problem? There are occasional issues with fiber cuts that cause outages. I'd imagine many companies rely on such a critical piece of infrastructure.

Apple Music seems to be having issues too

If I would take a wild guess : it's the heat waves. They drain people's concentration...

Why curious? Is there anything to make you believe there is foul play?

And today, eight days later, Twitter.

Imagine if Google is next