Security News
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.
Discord is suffering a 'massive outage' preventing users from logging in to the service or using voice chats. The outage started at 2:49 PM EST and was originally caused by a widespread API outage.
Umbrella company Parasol Group has confirmed why it shut down part of its IT last week: it found unauthorised activity from an intruder. Tech freelancers suspected a cyberattack was to blame for the blackout and sure enough the Group wrote to customers at the close of last working week to explain in more detail what had happened.
Contractors employed via umbrella company Parasol Group are increasingly nervous about a multi-day outage of some IT systems used to process payroll, with several suspecting a security attack as the root cause. Greet Borsens, the chief sales officer at Parasol Group, itself part of Optionis Group, wrote to its contractor customers on 12 January confirming "a systems outage in parts of our group" affecting the MyParasol portal.
FinalSite announced today the findings of a six-day investigation into last week's ransomware attack, stating it found no evidence schools' data accessed or stolen by hackers. After a six-day investigation, FinalSite states that they have determined what ransomware gang performed the attack and how they gained access to their network but would not be disclosing their names due to ongoing investigations.
Major services across the internet are currently facing ongoing networking outages. "We are experiencing issues with file uploads, message editing, and other services. We're currently investigating the issue and will provide a status update once we have more information," Slack has confirmed, with its status page continuing to show further disruptions.
Amazon AWS is experiencing an outage that has impacted numerous online services, including Twitch, Zoom, PSN, Xbox Live, Doordash, Quickbooks Online, and Hulu. AWS engineers are working on addressing the root cause behind this outage and said they have already taken steps to restore connectivity.