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Latest Aug 19, 2026 Industry News

Eight Hours Dark: GitHub's Global Outage Consumed a Year of Downtime Budget in One Day

On August 17, GitHub went down for roughly eight hours worldwide — taking Actions, API traffic, Copilot, and authentication with it. A sharp reminder that your deployment pipeline is only as reliable as the platform beneath it.

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Aug 18, 2026 WordPress

CVE-2026-15748: Forminator's CVSS 9.8 Flaw Puts 600,000 WordPress Sites at Risk

A critical unauthenticated RCE flaw (CVSS 9.8) in Forminator Forms affects 600,000+ WordPress sites. No login required —...

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Aug 17, 2026 Security

VMware vCenter RCE: Five Days from Patch to 361 Compromised Servers

Broadcom patched VMSA-2026-0006 on July 29. By August 3—five days later—attackers were already inside hundreds of vCente...

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Aug 16, 2026 Web Hosting

Namecheap's 30-Hour Outage: When Your Host Takes Your DNS Down With It

On August 13, storms knocked out the chillers at Namecheap's Phoenix data center, taking 5,000 servers offline for over...

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Notes from the ops room.

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