Security News

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.

Ongoing Duo outage causes Azure Auth authentication errors
2023-08-21 16:26

Cisco-owned multi-factor authentication provider Duo Security is investigating an ongoing outage that has been causing authentication failures and errors starting three hours ago. The outage also led to Core Authentication Service issues across multiple Duo servers, triggering Azure Auth authentication errors for Azure Conditional Access integrations in a systemwide outage.

Slack down: Outage causing connection errors, blurry images
2023-08-02 16:54

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Microsoft Sharepoint outage caused by use of wrong TLS certificate
2023-07-24 22:46

Microsoft Sharepoint and OneDrive for Business were briefly interrupted today after a German TLS certificate was mistakenly added to the main.com domains for the Microsoft 365 services. At approximately 3:08 PM ET today, a Microsoft 365 advisory 'SP659992' warned that users may be unable to access SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.

Microsoft Exchange Online hit by new outage blocking emails
2023-07-18 09:06

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Microsoft Teams outage blocks access to web and desktop clients
2023-06-28 12:48

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Outlook for the web outage impacts users across America
2023-06-27 14:19

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue preventing some customers from accessing their Exchange Online mailbox through Outlook on the web. While Microsoft says this outage only impacts the North American region, user reports show that the issue might also affect users in South America.

With dead-time dump, Microsoft revealed DDoS as cause of recent cloud outages
2023-06-19 00:32

The Associated Press reported that in response to its inquiries about the cause of the outage, Microsoft admitted that Anonymous Sudan and DDoS orchestrated by the group were the cause of the outages. The post that the AP claims is Microsoft's admission of succumbing to Anonymous Sudan doesn't mention the source of the DDoS - but does state: "Beginning in early June 2023, Microsoft identified surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability. Microsoft promptly opened an investigation and subsequently began tracking ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-1359.".

Microsoft confirms Azure, Outlook outages caused by DDoS attacks
2023-06-18 14:40

Microsoft has confirmed that recent outages to Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive web portals resulted from Layer 7 DDoS attacks against the company's services. The outages occurred at the beginning of June, with Outlook.com's web portal targeted on June 7th, OneDrive on June 8th, and the Microsoft Azure Portal on June 9th. Microsoft did not share at the time that they were suffering DDoS attacks but hinted that they were the cause, stating for some incidents that they were "Applying load balancing processes in order to mitigate the issue."

Microsoft: Azure Portal outage was caused by traffic “spike”
2023-06-12 16:52

Microsoft revealed in an update to the Azure status page that the preliminary root cause behind an outage that impacted the Azure Portal worldwide on Friday was what it described as a traffic "Spike." Customers who wanted to access the Azure Portal on Friday afternoon at portal.