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.
MoneyGram says there is no evidence that ransomware is behind a recent cyberattack that led to a five-day outage in September. [...]
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The PlayStation Network is suffering a global outage, with subscribers confirming that they can no longer play online games or access the company's website. [...]
The PlayStation Network is suffering a global outage, with subscribers confirming that they can no longer play online games or access the company's website. [...]
Intruders accessed internal web servers, limited info ... customers told not to worry Exclusive Rackspace has told customers intruders exploited a zero-day bug in a third-party application it was using, and abused that vulnerability to break into its internal performance monitoring environment. That intrusion forced the cloud-hosting outfit to temporarily take its monitoring dashboard offline for customers.…
Nearby College's Health Sciences Center Is Also Experiencing an IT OutageUniversity Medical Center, a Lubbock, Texas-based public health system that includes a level-one trauma center and a children's hospital, is diverting ambulances and working to restore an IT outage affecting some patient services in the wake of a ransomware attack late last week.
A widespread Verizon outage is causing iPhones and Android devices to enter SOS mode, preventing them from making mobile calls unless they use WiFi calling. [...]