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Cybercriminals target Rogers customers with a new SMS phishing campaign pretending to be refunds for last week's Canada-wide wireless outage. Last week, Rogers suffered a massive outage throughout Canada, preventing users from accessing wireless voice and data services.
A worldwide Microsoft Teams outage is blocking users from logging into their accounts, and preventing those already logged in from sending and receiving messages. The Microsoft 365 Service health status page is currently directing customers to the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account for more details regarding this widespread incident.
Apple's iCloud Mail service is suffering an outage since this morning, preventing some people from sending and receiving emails. Starting this morning at 7:13 AM EST, iCloud Mail users began reporting that they were having difficulty sending or receiving an email to their accounts.
A technology provider says a malware attack triggered a dayslong outage that has caused reservations systems to crash at about 20 low-cost airlines around the world. A spokeswoman for Radixx's parent, Southlake, Texas-based Sabre Corp., said Friday that the company was beginning to restore service to airline customers.
A Microsoft 365 outage is preventing Exchange Online users from sending and receiving emails, with messages being stuck in transit and not reaching the recipients' inboxes. "We're investigating a potential issue with Exchange Online mailflow in North America," Microsoft shared on the company's Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account.
Rogers is currently affected by a nationwide outage in Canada that prevents customers from accessing wireless voice and data services. The outage started at approximately 1 AM, with users taking to social media to voice their frustration that they can't access voice or data.
The new release tests and detects any issues in the digital workspace - before the end-user experiences an outage. "Controlling unplanned changes is an ongoing, daily challenge for most enterprises," said Michael Kent, CTO of Login VSI. "Login Enterprise version 4.5 prevents any business outage, resulting from planned and unplanned changes, by continuously testing the Digital Workspace 24/7 from pre-production thru production."
Twitter is suffering a worldwide outage that started last night and is continuing into Saturday morning with erratic behavior and features partially working. On mobile devices, Twitter users are being shown messages stating, "Tweets aren't loading right now. Try again."
Microsoft has revealed that Thursday's worldwide outage was caused by a code defect that allowed the Azure DNS service to become overwhelmed and not respond to DNS queries. Last night, Microsoft published a root cause analysis for this week's outage and explained that it was caused by their Azure DNS service becoming overloaded.
Data breaches and network outages are a real and growing cost for the industry: 43% of respondents estimated the costs of data breaches would exceed $2 million and 34% said the same for network outages. The healthcare industry is a target: 52% of respondents suffered a data breach in the past year.