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uptime incident-response

Website Down? The Exact Checklist to Diagnose and Fix It

Your website is down. A triage runbook: confirm it's real, isolate DNS vs TLS vs server vs app with actual commands, and keep users informed.

6 min read
outages aws

AWS in October, Cloudflare in November: Two Outages, One Lesson About Hidden Dependencies

A DynamoDB DNS race in us-east-1 and an oversized Cloudflare config file took down much of the web within a month. What both teach about hidden dependencies.

6 min read
security log4shell

Log4Shell — What CVE-2021-44228 Is Teaching Us, Mid-Scramble

Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) is a trivially exploitable RCE in Log4j, and patching is still under way. What the scramble teaches every team, Java or not.

6 min read
security breaches

The Equifax Breach: Anatomy of an Unpatched Vulnerability

Equifax lost data on roughly 143 million people through a Struts flaw patched two months before the attack began. Lessons on inventory, patch SLAs and detection.

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