Security News

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.

SIOS AppKeeper: Automatically responding to service outages on Amazon EC2 instances
2020-01-30 02:30

SIOS Technology, an industry pioneer in providing IT resilience through intelligent application availability, announced the availability of SIOS AppKeeper, the industry's first out-of-the-box solution to automatically respond to service outages on Amazon EC2 instances, protecting applications from service interruptions and downtime while eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming manual intervention. SIOS AppKeeper not only identifies and sends notifications for failures from an intuitive dashboard, it will also automatically attempt to restart failed services or reboot the instance - addressing 85% of application service failures.

Pitney Bowes Says Ransomware Behind System Outages
2019-10-15 10:03

'All Options' Under Consideration for Recovery, Mailing Equipment Giant SaysPitney Bowes says it was infected by file-encrypting malware that has affected online accounts and mailing products but...

Russian Hackers Behind Ukraine Power Outage May Have Sought More Damage
2019-09-13 09:27

The Russia-linked hackers who triggered a power outage in Ukraine back in 2016 may have hoped to cause much more damage, according to a report published recently by U.S.-based industrial...

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outage
2019-08-22 23:14

Security bod may be invited back into vuln reward program, Half-Life 3 still ain't happening Games giant Valve is attempting to make nice with the infosec bod who disclosed zero-day exploits for...

Venafi guarantees elimination of certificate-related outages within complex architectures
2019-08-08 02:30

Venafi, the leading provider and inventor of machine identity protection, announced at Black Hat USA 2019 the industry’s first no-outage guarantee. Combining the power of the Venafi platform with...

Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City
2019-07-26 10:03

Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city's power company got attacked by a ransomware virus. City Power, the...

Certificate-related outages impact the reputation of financial services organizations
2019-07-18 04:45

Financial services organizations are more likely to have digital certificate-related outages than other industries, a Venafi study reveals. Over 100 CIOs in the financial services industry from...

Cloudflare Calls Internet Outage 'Small Heart Attack'
2019-06-28 12:03

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses Cloudflare's harsh criticism of Verizon over an internet outage it labeled as a "small heart attack." Plus: sizing up the impact of GDPR;...

Cloudflare Criticizes Verizon Over Internet Outage
2019-06-26 12:33

'Small Heart Attack' Incident Points to Problems Keeping Internet Infrastructure SecureCloudflare was unsparing in its criticism of Verizon over a BGP snafu that hampered 15 percent of its global...