Security News

Square: Last week’s outage was caused by DNS issue, not a cyberattack
2023-09-11 15:21

Payment processing firm Square says a widespread outage that took down a large part of the company's infrastructure last week was caused by a DNS issue. The 14-hour-long outage affected Square payment acceptance and other services and led to customers being unable to log into their accounts or process payments starting Thursday, around noon.

Rogers silent as Canadian customers report internet outages
2023-09-07 12:27

Rogers customers, primarily those located in Downtown Toronto and parts of Ontario, are reporting outages this week affecting their internet service. Rogers customers took to X to voice their concerns about internet outages in their area.

Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files
2023-09-06 16:01

If you got snubbed by the object of your affections on dating app Coffee Meets Bagel in late August, don't feel bad, the company says its systems were down due to cyber baddies. Access to the service was finally restored on September 3 after the "Team spent days working around the clock to rebuild our system from online backups so that daters could securely get back online."

Coffee Meets Bagel says recent outage caused by destructive cyberattack
2023-09-05 22:01

The Coffee Meets Bagel dating platform confirms last week's outage was caused by hackers breaching the company's systems and deleting company data. Last week, Coffee Meets Bagel suffered a worldwide outage, with users upset that they could not coordinate planned dates or continue communicating with their matches.

Ongoing Duo outage causes Azure Auth authentication errors
2023-08-21 16:26

Cisco-owned multi-factor authentication provider Duo Security is investigating an ongoing outage that has been causing authentication failures and errors starting three hours ago. The outage also led to Core Authentication Service issues across multiple Duo servers, triggering Azure Auth authentication errors for Azure Conditional Access integrations in a systemwide outage.

Slack down: Outage causing connection errors, blurry images
2023-08-02 16:54

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Microsoft Sharepoint outage caused by use of wrong TLS certificate
2023-07-24 22:46

Microsoft Sharepoint and OneDrive for Business were briefly interrupted today after a German TLS certificate was mistakenly added to the main.com domains for the Microsoft 365 services. At approximately 3:08 PM ET today, a Microsoft 365 advisory 'SP659992' warned that users may be unable to access SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

Microsoft Exchange Online hit by new outage blocking emails
2023-07-18 09:06

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Microsoft Teams outage blocks access to web and desktop clients
2023-06-28 12:48

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Outlook for the web outage impacts users across America
2023-06-27 14:19

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue preventing some customers from accessing their Exchange Online mailbox through Outlook on the web. While Microsoft says this outage only impacts the North American region, user reports show that the issue might also affect users in South America.