TechnikNews Weekly # 125: DNS glitches, Whatsapp down, Twitter hacked and more
A SUMMARY of David Wurm 
on July 19, 2020, 18:00 pm | Write a comment
You can do that this Sunday too TechnikNews Weekly don't fail: the summary of the last week for all technology fans. In the last few days it was, among other things, a DNS malfunction at Cloudflare, WhatsApp was down and Twitter was hacked.
Need useless knowledge? With pleasure - today we still have exactly 165 days until New Year's Eve. Despite all the things that 2020 brought us, this year will also pass quickly and we are almost in week 30. But now it's time for the 125th edition of the TechnikNews Weekly, which has been published every Sunday since February 18, 2018. It must be said: this week was quite full of problems and disruptions.
Cloudflare DNS disturbed, Google DNS and others also affected
Last week there was a widespread disruption to Cloudflare's DNS service. This seemed to paralyze half of the Internet: many websites and users use 1.1.1.1 as their DNS service and were thus affected by the outage. However, the problem was resolved after about 30 minutes - a defective router configuration is said to have been the cause.
WhatsApp Messenger with problems
In addition to the disruption at Cloudflare, WhatsApp struggled with a brief outage last Tuesday. So it was not possible to receive or send messages through the service for half an hour. Then everything was back to normal and WhatsApp was fully usable again.
Verified accounts on Twitter hacked
As if there weren't enough problems last week, there was a large-scale hack on Twitter on Thursday night. Numerous verified accounts were hacked, including those of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and more. The scammers took over the accounts and asked followers to pay Bitcoin into an account in order to get it doubled - as a "thank you". Anyone who has transferred money no longer needs to count on their money. In the article, Lars has summarized all the important questions about the Twitter hack:
TechnikNews Weekly: More articles this week
All other articles of the past week that are not in the TechnikNews Weekly can be found here: