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Seguridad · 21 de octubre de 2026 Ataques confirmados Fijado 15.235 visitas
PHP2Shell: what we know about the two critical PHP flaws (fix out)Two critical flaws in PHP, the language behind about 70% of websites, can let anyone run code on a server with one request. The fix is out: how the attack works, what is confirmed, what to do, and what it could mean for the internet.
Análisis · 24 de octubre de 2026
LaLiga's IP blocks: why half a million websites break in Spain on match daysTo fight pirate football streams, Spain's ISPs block shared IP addresses during LaLiga matches, and hundreds of thousands of unrelated websites go down with them. What OONI found, what we measured, and what you can do before Barcelona – Real Madrid.
Seguridad · 21 de octubre de 2026 596 visitas
Node.js security release: ten fixes, one that can run codeOn the same day as PHP2Shell, Node.js fixed ten flaws in its 22, 24 and 26 lines, including a Brotli decoder bug that can allow remote code execution and several ways around TLS hostname checks. What is affected and what to do.
Explicación · 21 de octubre de 2026 113 visitas
Can a software flaw take the internet down?Ten years after the Mirai attack on Dyn: how security flaws turn into outages, the times they did, and what Blackout Map can and cannot see.
Retrospectiva · Iran, February 2026 177 visitas
Iran's wartime blackout: 88 days cut off from the worldFrom the first strikes on 28 February to 26 May 2026, Iran was almost completely cut off from the internet: 2,093 hours, the longest nationwide shutdown on record. What happened, how it worked and what it cost.
Retrospectiva · West Africa, March 2024
West Africa lost four undersea cables in one dayA suspected underwater landslide off Côte d'Ivoire broke four cables at once in March 2024. Ghana was in blackout for almost a week, Côte d'Ivoire fell to 1% of normal.
Retrospectiva · Canada, July 2022
How a maintenance update took down Canada's RogersIn July 2022 one update in Rogers' core network cut mobile, home internet, debit payments and emergency calls for millions of Canadians for most of a day.
Retrospectiva · Tonga, January 2022
Tonga: the volcano that cut a country offThe 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption shredded the only cable linking Tonga to the world. The country was almost completely offline for five weeks.
Retrospectiva · Worldwide, October 2021
The six hours Facebook disappeared from the internetIn October 2021 one routine command took Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp off the internet for billions of people. No attack, no country outage.
Retrospectiva · Myanmar, February 2021
Myanmar 2021: a coup, and an internet curfewAfter the February 2021 coup, Myanmar's military cut the internet nationwide, then every night, then all mobile data: a shutdown shaped by the hour.
Retrospectiva · Tigray, Ethiopia, November 2020
Tigray: two years without a connectionFrom November 2020, the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region came with a phone and internet blackout that lasted about two years.
Retrospectiva · Iran, November 2019
Iran, November 2019: a country offline for a weekDuring the 2019 fuel protests Iran cut itself off from the internet almost completely, while keeping parts of its domestic network running.
Retrospectiva · Jammu and Kashmir, India, August 2019
Kashmir: 550 days without full internetThe shutdown that began in August 2019 became the longest ever imposed in a democracy. High-speed mobile internet only returned in February 2021.
Retrospectiva · Egypt, January 2011
Egypt 2011: the night a country switched off its internetIn January 2011, two days into mass protests, Egypt withdrew almost all its routes from the internet within minutes. It stayed dark for five days.
Retrospectiva · Pakistan, February 2008
The day Pakistan took YouTube offline for the whole worldIn 2008 a national block on YouTube leaked into the internet's routing system and made the site unreachable worldwide for about two hours.