"Cloudflare says it has fixed an outage that took down several websites and apps, including Zoom, LinkedIn, Shopify and Fortnite, early on Friday, in the latest major glitch involving the web traffic management giant whose shares dipped in premarket trading. Another Cloudflare outage took down several websites and apps early on Friday morning. An update on Cloudflare's status page said the nearly half-hour-long outage was the result of "issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs.""
"Several major websites use Cloudflare to manage internet traffic and prevent targeted cyberattacks. Shortly after detecting the issue, Cloudflare said it quickly deployed a fix and said the outage was caused by a change made to how the platform's firewall handled requests. The outage reports on Downdetector dropped sharply after Cloudflare deployed the fix. "This was not an attack; the change [to the platform's firewall] was deployed by our team to help mitigate the industry-wide vulnerability disclosed this week," Cloudflare said in the status update."
Cloudflare experienced a nearly half-hour outage early Friday that disrupted multiple major websites and apps, including Zoom, LinkedIn, Shopify and Fortnite. An update on Cloudflare's status page attributed the outage to issues with the Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs. Engineers deployed a fix shortly after detecting the problem and identified a recent change to the platform's firewall request handling as the cause. Downdetector reports of outages fell sharply after the fix was applied. Cloudflare stated the incident was not an attack and said the firewall change was intended to mitigate a recently disclosed industry-wide vulnerability.
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