Cloudflare Outage Exposes Dangerous Fragility at the Heart of Internet Infrastructure
On November 18, 2025, millions of users around the world experienced a stark reminder of how fragile the modern internet truly is. Popular platforms such as X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Zoom, Canva, and even outage-tracking website Downdetector simultaneously became inaccessible or unreliable. The cause was not a cyberattack, nor a coordinated global assault on digital infrastructure. Instead, the disruption stemmed from a configuration failure inside Cloudflare—one of the world’s most influential internet infrastructure companies. Cloudflare later issued a public apology, acknowledging that a flawed configuration file designed to manage threat traffic caused a crash across its global network. While services … Read more
