Security News

GitHub reveals reason behind last week’s string of outages
2023-05-16 19:26

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.

Twitter outage logs you out and won’t let you back in
2023-05-01 20:11

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Cold storage giant Americold outage caused by network breach
2023-04-28 19:53

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.

Major UK banks including Lloyds, Halifax, TSB hit by outages
2023-04-28 08:48

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.

New Microsoft 365 outage causes Exchange Online connectivity issues
2023-04-25 20:47

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 365 search outage affects Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint
2023-04-24 11:47

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 365 outage blocks access to web apps and services
2023-04-20 14:24

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.

Google Search outage prevents some from seeing search results
2023-04-19 01:26

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NCR suffers Aloha POS outage after BlackCat ransomware attack
2023-04-15 18:26

NCR is suffering an outage on its Aloha point of sale platform after being hit by an ransomware attack claimed by the BlackCat/ALPHV gang. After days of silence, NCR has disclosed today that the outage was caused by a ransomware attack on data centers used to power their Aloha POS platform.

Western Digital struggles to fix massive My Cloud outage, offers workaround
2023-04-08 15:08

On Friday, five days into a massive outage impacting its cloud services, Western Digital finally provided customers with a workaround to access their files. The complete list of services that were down throughout this week includes My Cloud, My Cloud Home, My Cloud Home Duo, My Cloud OS 5, SanDisk ibi, and SanDisk Ixpand Wireless Charger, together with linked mobile, desktop, and web apps.