The Internet Last Week
East African subsea cable cuts
https://blog.cloudflare.com/east-african-internet-connectivity-again-impacted-by-submarine-cable-cuts
https://www.kentik.com/blog/east-africa-struck-by-more-submarine-cable-woes/
https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/112434522446510609Equinix Singapore (SG) metro disruption
Cogent/Tata de-peering event
https://infosec.exchange/@dougmadory/112456897981146069
https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/5rX77g81MNt8kfVQ82
https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-May/thread.html#225651
#Outages @SubseaCable #Equinix #Cogent #Tata #BGP
Other Notable Events
Google Cloud services disruption
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/xVSEV3kVaJBmS7SZbnre
Defunct Dedipath (AS 35913) announcing routes
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history#w.resource=35913&w.starttime=2024-01-01T00:00:00
https://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS35913&view=2.0
ARIN RPKI repository rsync delays
Duo authentication disruptions
Kashmir Internet service disruption
Ukraine Internet disruptions
https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/112454644172456588
Texas power-related disruptions
Meta platform services disruption
Microsoft Patch Tuesday
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Microsoft+May+2024+Patch+Tuesday/30920/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/patch-tuesday-may-2024-edition/
Apple *OS updates
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Apple+Patches+Everything+macOS+iOS+iPadOS+watchOS+tvOS+updated/30916/
BreachForums seizure
Salesforce DNS service disruption
https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/salesforce-dns-disruption-analysis-may-16-2024
Firefox 126.0 update
Amazon S3 authorized errors now free
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/05/amazon-s3-no-charge-http-error-codes/
US DoC bureaus create RPKI ROAs
Chrome 125.0.6422.60 update
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_15.html
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