Security News

US Investigating CenturyLink Internet Outage, 911 Failures
2018-12-30 16:53

U.S. officials and at least one state said Friday that they have started investigations into a nationwide CenturyLink internet outage that has disrupted 911 service. Federal Communications...

Microsoft Details Cause of Recent Multi-Factor Authentication Outage
2018-11-27 14:33

Microsoft has provided information on the root cause of the massive outage that last week impacted its Azure Active Directory authentication services across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. read more

LastPass? More like lost pass. Or where the fsck has it gone pass. Five-hour outage drives netizens bonkers
2018-11-20 21:44

Data centre lost connectivity, now restored LastPass users should be seeing the password manager's cloud service return to normal soon, after an outage lasting more than five hours.…

Your smart air conditioner could contribute to mass power outages
2018-08-15 12:20

Researchers call the scenario BlackIoT: an IoT botnet of high-wattage devices that could crash the power grid.

Group That Caused Power Outage Stops Focusing Exclusively on Ukraine
2018-06-07 10:53

Electrum, the Russia-linked hacker group believed to be responsible for the 2016 power outage in Ukraine, no longer focuses exclusively on this country, according to industrial cybersecurity firm...

Cloudflare Gets Transparent on DNS Resolver Outage
2018-06-04 19:17

It’s a cautionary tale for those coding the complex algorithms that go into automated mitigation.

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, a bank heist in Canada, and more
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, and a bank heist in Canada
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

Securing smart factories: How Schneider Electric connects devices and prevents outages
2018-04-24 14:36

In the industrial IoT, factories and data centers face two main barriers: connectivity and poor electrical infrastructure.

Have you evaluated the cost of a cloud outage?
2018-03-19 12:30

New findings from a study by Veritas Technologies, indicate that 60 percent of respondents have not fully evaluated the cost of a cloud outage to their business and are therefore ill prepared to...