Security News

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.

Capita confirms security attack caused pre-weekend outages
2023-04-03 15:33

Capita - everyone's favorite outsourcing badass - is still working to restore services for some customers after admitting the IT outage of certain services on Friday was caused by a cyber attack and efforts to contain the spread. The shape shifting tech biz, which has £6.5 billion worth of public sector contracts booked in, said before the weekend that a technical problem meant staff couldn't access work IT, including Microsoft cloud accounts. The cause of that blackout was confirmed today, with Capita saying via its website that on March 31 the biz "Experienced a cyber incident primarily impacting access to internal Microsoft 365 applications. This caused disruption to some services provided to individual clients, though the majority of our client services remained in operation."

Western Digital network security incident and service outage
2023-04-03 09:39

US-based data storage company Western Digital has announced that it has suffered a network security incident that resulted in an unauthorized third party gaining access to a number of the company's systems and some company data. Western Digital identified the network security incident on March 26, 2023.

LockBit ransomware claims Essendant attack, company says  “network outage”
2023-03-15 18:50

LockBit ransomware has claimed a cyber attack on Essendant, a wholesale distributer of office products after a "Significant" and ongoing outage knocked the company's operations offline. As earlier reported by BleepingComputer, Essendant's wide-spread network outage has been preventing placement or fulfillment of online orders, and impacting both the company's customers and suppliers.

Reddit is down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps
2023-03-14 19:49

Reddit is investigating a major outage that is blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's website and mobile apps. According to its official status page, Reddit confirmed that its website and apps are currently down, and its engineers looking into the root cause of this outage.