UPDATE 11:25AM: Cloudflare’s CTO is blaming “a latent bug in a service underpinning our bot mitigation capability” for today’s outage. It “started to crash after a routine configuration change we made,” which “cascaded into a broad degradation to our network and other services.”
Dane Knecht stressed that this was “not an attack,” and “work is already underway to make sure it does not happen again.” He promised to share more details in a few hours.
“I won’t mince words: earlier…
