Security News

Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?
2020-09-29 22:26

A spokesperson for the software giant told KrebsOnSecurity, "We've seen no indication that the multi-state 911 outage was a result of yesterday's Azure service disruption." According to officials in Henderson County, NC, which experienced its own 911 failures yesterday, Intrado said the outage was the result of a problem with an unspecified service provider.

Reduced lifespan of TLS certificates could cause increase in outages
2020-09-02 03:00

Beginning September 1st, all publicly trusted TLS certificates must have a lifespan of 398 days or less. Since many organizations lack the automation capabilities necessary to replace certificates with short lifespans at machine scale and speed, they are likely to see sharp increases in outages caused by unexpected certificate expirations.

Garmin Outage Raises Fear of Ransomware Attack
2020-07-24 18:37

Computer networks of smartwatch and electronics firm Garmin were offline Friday in an incident which raised concerns of a ransomware attack affecting both its aviation and fitness app services. The company said on Twitter its website and Garmin Connect fitness app had been offline since Thursday.

T-Mobile Outage Mistaken for Massive DDoS Attack on U.S.
2020-06-16 08:30

Wireless carrier T-Mobile on Monday suffered a major outage in the United States that impacted service at other carriers as well, and it ended up being reported as a "Massive" distributed denial of service attack. Other carriers were also affected by the incident, but reportedly blamed the experienced technical issues on the outage impacting T-Mobile's network.

ADVA unveils the ePRC optical cesium atomic clock solution to help SPs combat GNSS outages
2020-06-05 00:00

ADVA launched the industry's first ePRC optical cesium atomic clock solution, protecting synchronization networks from costly and dangerous interruptions to satellite signals. The Oscilloquartz OSA 3350 ePRC+ provides unprecedented stability and significantly longer lifetime compared to all other ePRC cesium clocks.

PagerDuty helps teams reduce manual work, prevent outages and boost remote collaboration
2020-05-28 00:30

PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, announced new automation and intelligence capabilities in its Dynamic Service Directory, Business Response and Intelligent Triage solutions, to help teams reduce manual work, prevent outages and improve remote collaboration. Sunil Madan, Corporate CIO at Zoom Video Communications, explains how his company is using PagerDuty, to meet soaring customer demand: "PagerDuty has played an instrumental role in keeping us 'always on' - it not only alerts us in real-time about any potential incidents, it provides the context our teams need to prioritize and solve problems, and it automates the process of bringing together only the right people. This has made our teams so efficient and effective that we've actually improved our time to resolve incidents."

Shipping Giant MSC Confirms Outage Caused by Malware Attack
2020-04-16 11:41

Swiss-based global shipping giant Mediterranean Shipping Company has confirmed that a recent outage was caused by a malware attack that affected its headquarters in Geneva. MSC informed customers on April 10 that its website, msc.com, and its myMSC customer and vendor portal had become unavailable due to a network outage at one of the company's data centers.

Digital certificates still cause unplanned downtime and application outages
2020-02-14 05:00

"The complexity of managing those identities while keeping them securely connected to the business has created a critical trust gap - in many cases the keys and certificates designed to build trust are instead causing outages and security breaches." Digital certificates and keys ensure authenticity across enterprise user, application and device identities.

After Malware Attack, Doctor Network Has Widespread Outage
2020-02-13 21:18

Hundreds of pediatric healthcare providers in Massachusetts were still unable to access their electronic health records systems Thursday after a malware attack earlier this week targeted a large physician network affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital. The system outage affecting Brookline, Mass.-based Pediatric Physicians Organization at Children's started on Tuesday; the malware attack was discovered on Monday afternoon.

Day 4 of outage: UK's Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime
2020-02-07 15:27

Greater Manchester Police is struggling with a partial outage of a Capita-built computer system used by frontline officers to input information. The PoliceWorks systems, which form part of the force's new iOPS - a £27m project undertaken by everyone's favourite outsourcer - went down after a planned IT upgrade at midnight on Monday.