Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

BrianKrebs @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

11/18/2025, 5:01:49 PM

Public

Can someone please explain what this means?

"A Cloudflare spokesperson said the "root cause" of the outage was an automatically generated configuration file used to manage threat traffic that "grew beyond an expected size of entries," which triggered a crash in the software system that handles traffic for several of its services."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x-chatgpt.html

Cloudflare says outage that hit X, ChatGPT and other sites is resolved

OpenAI's ChatGPT and Elon Musk's social media platform X were among the sites impacted by the Cloudflare issues.

www.cnbc.com · CNBC

BrianKrebs @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

11/19/2025, 1:45:14 AM

Public

Cloudflare just put up a blog post on today's incident.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

blog.cloudflare.com · The Cloudflare Blog

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