Security News

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.

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.