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An ongoing outage affects numerous Atlassian customers, causing their Jira and Confluence instances to not be accessible for over twenty-four hours. The outage started at approximately 5 AM EST yesterday, with Jira and Confluence customers no longer able to access their cloud instances.
The payment services giant advises that some users may continue to experience issues online or over the phone. The issues reported by users included being unable to log in to their Amex accounts, make payments, or get to an Amex customer service representative over the phone.
Tens of thousands of Viasat satellite broadband modems that were disabled in a cyber-attack some weeks ago were wiped by malware with possible links to Russia's destructive VPNFilter, according to SentinelOne. In a statement, Viasat said the researchers' hypothesis was "Consistent with the facts in our report ... SentinelLabs identifies the destructive executable that was run on the modems using a legitimate management command as Viasat previously described."
Russia's RSPP Commission for Communications and IT, the country's largest entrepreneurship union, has warned of imminent large-scale service Internet service outages due to the lack of available telecom equipment. With the western equipment suppliers exiting the market and not selling parts to Russian entities anymore, the first notable service outages may start as early as this summer.
GitHub says recent service outages were caused by resource contention issues in their primary database cluster. Since last week, GitHub says that there were four service outages caused by these problems, on March 16th, March 17th, March 22nd, and March 23rd. Today, GitHub explained that these outages were caused by "Resource contention" issues with their primary MySQL cluster called 'MySQL1.
Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University has entered a second week of woe following a vist by an infosec nasty. The 200-year-old institution's IT team first referred to the crisis as a "Security incident" but a spokesperson confirmed to The Register that it was a cyber attack.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency, EU's air transport safety and environmental protection regulator, warned today of intermittent outages affecting Global Navigation Satellite Systems linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These GNSS outages can lead to navigation and surveillance degradation due to jamming and/or possible spoofing issues that have intensified around Ukraine.
Five major Canadian banks went offline for hours blocking access to online and mobile banking as well as e-transfers for customers. The banks hit by the outage include Royal Bank of Canada, BMO, Scotiabank, TD Bank Canada, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
GitHub was down today, affected by a worldwide outage preventing access to the website, issuing commits, cloning projects, or performing pull requests. The outage started at approximately 2:15 PM EST, with the website responding with HTTP 500 error codes, as shown below.
The outage started at 2:49 PM EST and was initially caused by an issue with the application programming interface outage, preventing various services from communicating with each other. After resolving the API issue, Discord discovered a secondary issue with a database cluster, causing further problems.