Security News

High-business-impact outages are incredibly expensive
2023-10-05 04:00

In this Help Net Security video, Peter Pezaris, Chief Strategy and Design Officer at New Relic, discusses observability adoption and how full-stack observability leads to better service-level metrics, such as fewer, shorter outages and lower outage costs. 32% of respondents to a recent New Relic survey said critical business app outages cost more than $500K per hour of downtime.

Security concerns and outages elevate observability from IT niche to business essential
2023-09-20 03:30

The report also found that companies implementing observability benefit from increased operational efficiency, faster innovation, and better business outcomes overall. Among the findings, the survey uncovered that observability leaders - those who follow best practices to leverage observability and report experiencing better business and IT outcomes as a result - are three times more likely to say their organization is doing extremely well with growing revenue, more than twice as likely to say the same about operational efficiency, and 2.5 times more likely to say they're excelling with the speed of innovation.

Critical business app outages cost $500,000 per hour of downtime
2023-09-18 04:00

Observability's adoption is on the rise and full-stack observability leads to better service-level metrics, such as fewer, shorter outages and lower outage costs, according to New Relic. 32% of respondents said critical business app outages cost more than $500,000 per hour of downtime.

ORBCOMM ransomware attack causes trucking fleet management outage
2023-09-15 13:33

Trucking and fleet management solutions provider ORBCOMM has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind recent service outages preventing trucking companies from managing their fleets.Customers have told BleepingComputer that ORBCOMM has not shared what was causing the outage and only recently said that they hope to restore services by September 29th. After contacting the company, ORBCOMM confirmed they suffered a ransomware attack on September 6th that impacted the company's FleetManager solution and Blue Tree product line.

Caesars says cyber-crooks stole customer data as MGM casino outage drags on
2023-09-14 20:13

Casino giant Caesars Entertainment has confirmed miscreants stole a database containing customer info, including driver license and social security numbers for a "Significant number" of its loyalty program members, in a social engineering attack earlier this month. It's also reported the arachnid crew hit both Caesars and MGM Resorts, though reps for Scattered Spider, also known as 0ktapus, claimed they only hit MGM and had nothing to do with the Caesars raid.

Microsoft Teams down: Ongoing outage behind message failures, delays
2023-09-13 14:48

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage preventing customers from sending or receiving messages using the company's Microsoft Teams communication platform. Microsoft confirmed the outage in a tweet published via its official Microsoft 365 status account, saying that more details can be found under TM675041 in the admin center.

Square: Last week’s outage was caused by DNS issue, not a cyberattack
2023-09-11 15:21

Payment processing firm Square says a widespread outage that took down a large part of the company's infrastructure last week was caused by a DNS issue. The 14-hour-long outage affected Square payment acceptance and other services and led to customers being unable to log into their accounts or process payments starting Thursday, around noon.

Rogers silent as Canadian customers report internet outages
2023-09-07 12:27

Rogers customers, primarily those located in Downtown Toronto and parts of Ontario, are reporting outages this week affecting their internet service. Rogers customers took to X to voice their concerns about internet outages in their area.

Coffee Meets Bagel outage caused by cybercriminals deleting data and files
2023-09-06 16:01

If you got snubbed by the object of your affections on dating app Coffee Meets Bagel in late August, don't feel bad, the company says its systems were down due to cyber baddies. Access to the service was finally restored on September 3 after the "Team spent days working around the clock to rebuild our system from online backups so that daters could securely get back online."

Coffee Meets Bagel says recent outage caused by destructive cyberattack
2023-09-05 22:01

The Coffee Meets Bagel dating platform confirms last week's outage was caused by hackers breaching the company's systems and deleting company data. Last week, Coffee Meets Bagel suffered a worldwide outage, with users upset that they could not coordinate planned dates or continue communicating with their matches.