Security News

Gmail hit by a second outage within a single day
2020-12-15 17:34

Gmail is suffering its second outage in 24 hours, with users able to access their email but unable to send to other Gmail users or are experiencing unexpected behavior. According to DownDetector, a service that allows visitors to report service outages, the Gmail outage is predominantly affecting users in the USA. At its peak, DownDetector reported over 17,000 users affected by the outage.

Google outage caused by critical system running out of storage
2020-12-15 12:11

The global Google services outage yesterday was caused by the company's Identity Management System failing after a bug restricted its storage space. According to a tweet and a Google status report, the outage was caused by the company's automated quota management system reducing the amount of storage available to Google's authentication system.

Google outage affecting YouTube, Gmail and more
2020-12-14 07:04

Google users are currently experiencing issues around the world, with users unable to access Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Calendar, and other Google services. According to DownDetector and user reports, Google services are currently experiencing an outage in the U.S, Europe, and other parts of the world.

Major Power Outage in India Possibly Caused by Hackers: Reports
2020-11-20 16:06

Authorities in India determined that a major power outage that occurred last month in Mumbai, the country's largest city, may have been caused by hackers, according to reports. It took two hours to restore power just for essential services, and up to 12 hours to restore power in some of the affected areas.

Microsoft outage breaks sites, Windows Store, Xbox, and other services
2020-11-04 11:28

Microsoft is experiencing an outage that causes website content not to display correctly and for the Microsoft Store app to fail to load. When visiting www. As the Microsoft Store app pulls its data from the microsoft.com website, it also prevents the Microsoft Store app from loading.

Twitter outage blocks users from tweeting, seeing notifications
2020-10-15 18:39

Twitter is experiencing a worldwide service disruption preventing users from both sending tweets using Tweetdeck, the social network's apps, and website, or from seeing their notifications. Twitter is currently investigating the issue leading to broken notifications and "Nothing to see here - yet" messages, as reported by countless users starting about an hour ago.

Datadog adds Deployment Tracking to its APM to prevent outages related to bad code deploys
2020-10-08 01:30

Datadog announced Deployment Tracking, a new feature for Datadog APM. This feature enables engineering teams to identify when new code deployments are the root cause of performance issues. To prevent such risky visibility gaps, Datadog Deployment Tracking visualizes key performance metrics such as requests per second and error rate, identifying new error types for specific endpoints during every code deployment.

Microsoft 365 outage takes down Outlook and Microsoft Teams again
2020-10-07 15:11

Microsoft 365 is currently experiencing an outage affecting users on both coasts of the United States and preventing them from accessing multiple Office 365 services. Starting at approximately 2:30 PM EST today, Office 365 users all over the United States began having difficulty accessing their Outlook mail and using Microsoft Teams, with active calls getting dropped.

Wisepay 'outage' is actually the school meal payments biz trying to stop an intruder from stealing customer card details
2020-10-07 15:01

UK cashless school payments firm Wisepay has pulled its website offline after spotting a miscreant trying to spoof its card payment page. The Hampshire-based company, which bills itself as "Allowing parents and guardians to make cashless payments to their school or college", said its website was "Down for maintenance".

Tokyo Stock Exchange breaks new record. Sadly, not a good one... its longest ever outage
2020-10-02 02:14

Tokyo's Stock Exchange went offline for most of Thursday, its longest-ever outage and a very unwelcome one as it is the world's third-largest bourse, when measured by market capitalisation. The exchange yesterday morning posted news that "a technical glitch occurred to distribution of market data," and the market therefore stopped all trading.