This is the best summary I could come up with:
Square said there was “no evidence” a cyberattack caused an outage that left customers and small businesses unable to use the payment giant’s technology on Thursday through early-Friday.
“While making several standard changes to our internal network software, the combination of updates prevented our systems from properly communicating with each other, and ultimately caused the disruption.
The issue also affected many of our internal tools for troubleshooting and support, making them temporarily unavailable,” Square said in a blog post.
In 2021, Notion experienced a DNS issue that saw the note-taking app fall offline for several hours, prompting the company to tweet at its web host for help.
In 2016, several enormous waves of junk traffic targeting internet giant Dyn knocked the company’s DNS servers offline, effectively taking down Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Shopify, and other major online sites that relied on Dyn’s services.
The cyberattack was caused by a huge botnet of hijacked internet devices ensnared by the Mirai malware.
The original article contains 400 words, the summary contains 159 words. Saved 60%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Oh no! I’m gonna guess that lots of DNS caches picked up the bad configuration, and they couldn’t do anything but wait about 86400 seconds for those caches to expire. Caching is so hard!
