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.
The banking trojan "Grandoreiro" is spreading in a large-scale phishing campaign in over 60 countries, targeting customer accounts of roughly 1,500 banks. [...]
The Android banking trojan "Grandoreiro" is spreading in a large-scale phishing campaign in over 60 countries, targeting customer accounts of roughly 1,500 banks. [...]
In Some Regions, ER Patients Still Diverted, Pharmacies Can't Fill PrescriptionsU.S. hospital chain Ascension is making progress recovering from last week's ransomware attack, but it will take time to restore all its affected IT services, including electronic health records and systems supporting its pharmacy operations.
UK GCHQ Director Calls Chinese Hacking a 'Top Priority'Chinese-backed espionage and cyber disruption pose a major threat to global critical infrastructure as Beijing races for global edge, British and U.S. cyber officials warned Tuesday. Responding to the scale and complexity of Chinese hacking is a top British priority.
Going once, going twice, going offline Christie's website remains offline as of Monday after a "technology security issue" shut it down Thursday night – just days before the venerable auction house planned to flog $840 million of art.…
The Register’s Tim Philips gets down and dirty on cyber security in this interview with Rubrik CISO Richard Cassidy Sponsored Post There were hard words about the state of Britain's cyber security in parliament recently, but it's not just the country's critical national infrastructure which may be underprepared to tackle the army of hackers and nation state-backed cyber criminals intent on causing it disruption.…