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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 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, 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."
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.
"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.
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.
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 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.
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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...