Security News

Two Weekend Outages, Neither a Cyberattack
2019-06-17 12:18

Argentina and Others Suffer Power Outages; System Maintenance Disrupts TargetNot all that crashes has been hacked. To wit, this past weekend there were multiple major outages, including much of...

Salesforce Woes Linger as Admins Clean Up After Service Outage
2019-05-20 15:55

An accidental permissions snafu caused a massive outage for all Salesforce customers that continues to affect some businesses.

What’s Behind the Wolters Kluwer Tax Outage?
2019-05-07 19:56

Early in the afternoon on Friday, May, 3, I asked a friend to relay a message to his security contact at CCH, the cloud-based tax division of the global information services firm Wolters Kluwer in...

CIOs admit certificate-related outages routinely impact critical business applications and services
2019-03-29 06:00

Certificate-related outages harm the reliability and availability of vital network systems and services while also being extremely difficult to diagnose and remediate. Unfortunately, the vast...

How the Google and Facebook outages could impact application security
2019-03-20 07:00

With major outages impacting Gmail, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram recently, consumers are right to be concerned over the security of their private data. While details of these outages haven’t...

Facebook outage coincides with (or causes?) 3m new Telegram users
2019-03-15 11:57

A worldwide, nearly day-long outage at Facebook led to Telegram having a busy, busy day.

Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage
2019-03-14 10:48

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook...

Companies can save millions of dollars annually in preventable downtime and outages
2019-03-01 00:45

Gremlin, the world’s first hosted Chaos Engineering service created by engineers formerly at Amazon and Netflix, announced ‘Gremlin Free’ which makes it easy for DevOps teams to get started with...

74% of organizations face outages due to expired certificates
2019-02-19 06:00

As information security budgets grow and funds are allocated to protect the defensive perimeter, many companies have overlooked the critical importance of digital certificate management. And a new...

Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage
2019-02-01 11:57

Users of Microsoft’s Azure system lost database records as part of a mass outage on Tuesday. A combination of DNS problems and automated scripts were to blame, said reports.