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Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Multi-Factor Authentication issue preventing some customers from logging into their Microsoft 365 accounts. "We're investigating an issue with Multi-Factor Authentication that is preventing some users from accessing Microsoft 365 services. Additional information will be provided in the admin center under MO287933, the company tweeted."
Trello is down for many users around the world, second time this week. Trello is a web-based TODO list-style platform owned by Atlassian, makers of Jira and Confluence.
Parts of New Zealand were cut off from the digital world today after a major local ISP was hit by an aggressive DDoS attack. Vocus - the country's third-largest internet operator which is behind brands including Orcon, Slingshot and Stuff Fibre - confirmed the cyberattack originated at one of its customers.
The Boston Public Library has disclosed today that its network was hit by a cyberattack on Wednesday, leading to a system-wide technical outage. It is the third-largest public library in the United States behind the federal Library of Congress and the New York Public Library, based on the total number of items it holds.
Websites were briefly knocked offline Thursday after a software update triggered a glitch at network specialty firm Akamai. Reports of internet outages from locations around the world spiked at website Downdetector, with US-based Akamai saying some websites were offline for as long as an hour.
Akamai is investigating an ongoing outage affecting many major websites and online services, including Steam, the PlayStation Network, Newegg, AWS, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce. While the company has already acknowledged the issue, pinning it on an Edge DNS service problem, Akamai is still trying to find the underlying cause behind the incident.
CDN, cybersecurity and cloud services provider Akamai has blamed an outage that occurred on Thursday on an issue with its Prolexic DDoS attack protection service. Akamai's Prolexic Routed is a fully managed service designed to protect an organization's online assets against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
This week, Microsoft's Linux package repositories suffered an hours-long outage, followed by performance issues spanning over a day. Microsoft engineers have acknowledged the issue and are working towards a resolution.
This week, Microsoft's Linux package repositories suffered an hours-long outage, followed by performance issues spanning over a day. Microsoft engineers have acknowledged the issue and are working towards a resolution.
Major financial institutions, airlines and the Hong Kong stock exchange were knocked offline by a backfiring distributed denial-of-service mitigation service Thursday. The hour-long outage, which was triggered at approximately 1 a.m. EST Thursday, is tied to Akamai Technology's anti-DDoS Prolexic service.