Security News
Outlook.com is suffering a series of outages today after being down multiple times yesterday, with hacktivists known as Anonymous Sudan claiming to perform DDoS attacks on the service. This outage follows two major outages yesterday, creating widespread disruptions for global Outlook users, preventing users worldwide from reliably accessing or sending email and using the mobile Outlook app.
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Technology provider ScanSource has announced it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack impacting some of its systems, business operations, and customer portals. ScanSource is a U.S.-based cloud service and SaaS connectivity and network communications provider that also offers special PoS and payments, security, and AIDC solutions.
GitHub's Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering shared more details today on a string of outages that hit the code hosting platform last week. The second outage, occurring on May 10, impacted the issuance of authentication tokens for GitHub Apps and resulted from high load and inefficient implementation of an API responsible for managing GitHub App permissions.
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Americold, a leading cold storage and logistics company, has been facing IT issues since its network was breached on Tuesday night. "Americold is continuing to assess the intrusion that occurred Tues night / Wed morning. We contained the intrusion and shut down our network to ensure there is no risk to non-contained areas or customers. We are still in the discovery process on the path to rebuild the impacted systems," the cold storage giant said.
Websites and mobile apps of Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB Bank, and Bank of Scotland are experiencing web and mobile app outages leaving customers unable to access their account balances and information. BleepingComputer has been able to confirm that the four major UK banks are currently experiencing disruptions related to their online banking and mobile banking systems since the early morning hours of Friday, April 28th. Websites of banks including Lloyds, Halifax, TSB, and Bank of Scotland admit that some customers are having issues when accessing Internet and Mobile banking services.
Microsoft is investigating ongoing Microsoft 365 issues preventing some Exchange Online customers from accessing their mailboxes. According to outage monitoring platform Downdetector, thousands of Microsoft 365 report experiencing server connection and login issues, as well as when accessing their Outlook mailboxes.
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue preventing some customers from using the search functionality across multiple Microsoft 365 services. The list of affected services includes but is not limited to Outlook on the Web, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, and Outlook desktop clients.
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage blocking customers worldwide from accessing and using web apps and online services. The list of affected services includes Microsoft 365 fort the web, the Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Planner.