Two bad versions of axios were live for about three hours in March 2026, installing remote access malware on macOS, Windows and Linux. Three hours is shorter than most teams take to notice. So the question is never 'did we install it' but 'which machines downloaded it during those hours'. Here is the ordered runbook: find the window, list what downloaded, rotate in the right order, then look for what was left behind.
On 16 September 2026, Salesforce went down across six countries for about ten and a half hours. The public explanation is one sentence long, and it describes the most common cascading failure in backend systems: requests piling up behind one slow internal service until no workers were left. Here is why timeouts alone do not save you, what bulkheads cost, and why recovery took far longer than the failure.