Security News
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.
Kronos, the workforce management platform, has been hit with a ransomware attack that it says will leave its cloud-based services unavailable for several weeks - and it's suggesting that customers seek other ways to get payroll and other HR tasks accomplished.Kronos offers a range of solutions for employee scheduling, compensation management, payroll and hours worked, benefits administration, time off management, talent acquisition, onboarding and more.
Amazon has published a post-event summary to shed some light on the root cause behind this week's massive AWS outage that took down a long list of high-profile sites and online services, including Ring, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku. "At 7:30 AM PST, an automated activity to scale capacity of one of the AWS services hosted in the main AWS network triggered an unexpected behavior from a large number of clients inside the internal network," Amazon explained in a summary of this incident.
Amazon AWS in the US-EAST-1 Region is suffering an outage that affected numerous online services, including Ring, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku. The ongoing outage started at approximately 12 PM EST and is caused by problematic network equipment affecting the US-EAST-1 AWS region, which feeds a good portion of the connectivity for people in the northeastern part of the United States.
A Microsoft 365 outage prevents access to files, such as Excel documents, stored on the SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Office, and Microsoft Teams cloud storage services. The outage started at approximately 11:40 AM EST, with admins and users reporting on social media that they could not open files stored on OneDrive or SharePoint.