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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.
While an investigation is ongoing as to what the reason behind the outage might be, Fastly CDN has been seen as the common link. Many of the impacted websites on the list rely on Fastly CDN to serve content, as noted by BleepingComputer.
A reported ransomware attack on Cox Media Group has crippled streaming and other internal operations of dozens of radio and television stations scattered across America's 20 broadcast markets. Recorded Future first reported the ransomware attack and others news outlets quickly confirmed CMG feeds were being disrupted - including streaming service Hulu.
Furniture Village - the UK's largest independent furniture retailer with 54 stores nationwide - has been hit by a "Cyber-attack", the company confirmed to The Register. The problems emerged last weekend on 29 May when Furniture Village admitted it was experiencing "Technical issues" and it was unable to answer calls.
Slack is experiencing a worldwide outage preventing users from posting messages, uploading images, or connecting to their servers. May 20, 5:27 PM UTC. Some users may be experiencing issues loading Slack.