Database
Cloudflare blames this week’s massive outage on database issues
On Tuesday, Cloudflare experienced its worst outage in 6 years, blocking access to many websites and online platforms for almost 6 hours after a change to database access controls triggered a cascading failure across its Global Network. The company’s Global Network is a distributed infrastructure of servers and data centers across more than 120 countries, […]
Spain arrests suspected hacker of US and Spanish military agencies
The Spanish police have arrested a suspected hacker in Alicante for allegedly conducting 40 cyberattacks targeting critical public and private organizations, including the Guardia Civil, the Ministry of Defense, NATO, the US Army, and various universities. Spanish media reports that the suspect was brought before a court and subsequently released after having his passport confiscated to prevent him […]
DeepSeek exposes database with over 1 million chat records
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup known for its DeepSeek-R1 LLM model, has publicly exposed two databases containing sensitive user and operational information. The unsecured ClickHouse instances reportedly held over a million log entries containing user chat history in plaintext form, API keys, backend details, and operational metadata. Wiz Research discovered this exposure during a security […]