Security News

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.

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.