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Outages can disrupt security tools and critical services, showing how failures in infrastructure, vendors, or recovery plans affect cyber resilience.

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Outage is a period when a system, network, application, or online service is unavailable or cannot perform its intended function. It may be planned maintenance or an unplanned disruption caused by equipment or software failure, misconfiguration, a dependency problem, natural hazards, or a denial-of-service attack. The tag generally concerns availability incidents, not every performance issue or security breach.

For security practitioners, an outage requires determining whether malicious activity contributed to the disruption while preserving relevant logs, network telemetry, and system state for investigation. Defenses include capacity planning, segmented and redundant architecture, tested failover and recovery procedures, and controls that limit the effect of DDoS traffic or compromised dependencies. Emergency changes made during recovery should be authorized and recorded, since they can create new vulnerabilities or affect data integrity. Clear incident ownership and communications help coordinate technical response without obscuring the cause or scope.

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Bank Info Security 2 years, 3 months ago

Change Healthcare Attack: Recovery Woes; Lawsuits Pile Up

Company Makes Progress Restoring IT Services, But Disruption LingersAs recovery from its Feb. 21 cyberattack continues, Change Healthcare and its parent company UnitedHealth Group are facing a growing pile of lawsuits, while health sector entities affected by the IT services disruption are dealing with a mounting stack of bills and other paperwork to catch up on.

Bank Info Security 6 Apr 2024, 10:00 a.m. Critical Infrastructure Cyberattack Healthcare Lawsuit Outage
Bank Info Security 2 years, 3 months ago

China Is Using AI to Influence Elections, Microsoft Warns

Chance of AI-Generated Content Affecting Results Appears to Remain Low - for NowChina-backed attackers are continuing to refine their use of content generated using artificial intelligence tools, including audio deepfakes and video news anchors, to sow disruption and influence elections in the U.S., Taiwan, India and beyond, security researchers at Microsoft warn.

Bank Info Security 6 Apr 2024, 7:00 a.m. America Artificial Intelligence China Deepfake India Microsoft Outage Research Taiwan Video Warning
Bank Info Security 2 years, 3 months ago

After Ransomware Hits, County Declares State of Emergency

Missouri County Blames Ransomware for IT Outages; Special Election Not DisruptedThe Missouri county of Jackson has declared a state of emergency after being hit by ransomware on the day of a special election. Officials said attackers didn't appear to have stolen any data and that as a cybersecurity measure, the county doesn't store any residents' sensitive financial data.

Bank Info Security 4 Apr 2024, 7:00 a.m. Election Finance Outage Ransomware State of Emergency Theft