Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Azure Outage Comes a Week After a Cloud DNS Error Disrupted AWS UsersMicrosoft's Azure cloud and 365 systems suffered an outage at noon on Wednesday because of a configuration error - hours before its quarterly earnings call and about a week after rival AWS underwent a widespread outage that shut down applications and services for most of the day.

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing DNS outage affecting customers worldwide, preventing them from logging into company networks and accessing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services. [...]

Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online services on Monday. [...]

Cloud Giant Blames DNS MisconfigurationAmazon Web Services is recovering from a service outage that affected its own services and dozens of its clients on Monday including websites of the British government. The cloud computing giant - the world's largest - blamed a domain name system misconfiguration.

Cloud Giant Blames DNS MisconfigurationAmazon Web Services is recovering from a service outage that impacted its own services and dozens of its clients on Monday including websites of the British government. The cloud computing giant - the world's largest - blamed a domain name system misconfiguration.

Thanks to a 24-year-old security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-50387, attackers could stall DNS servers with just a single malicious packet, effectively taking out wide swaths of the Internet.

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. [...]

Plus: Unpatched DNS bug puts IoT devices at risk, SolarWinds hackers set up new digs, and a CEO faces hard time for massive mining fraud In Brief Colonial Pipeline is facing an almost $1 million fine for control room management failures after the US Department of Transportation alleged they contributed to the nation's fuel disruption in the wake of the 2021 ransomware attack.…