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1 year, 8 months ago
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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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Bleeping Computer
1 year, 8 months ago
Washington courts' systems offline following weekend cyberattack
Court systems across Washington state have been down since Sunday when officials said "unauthorized activity" was detected on their networks. [...]
The Register
1 year, 8 months ago
Cyberattackers stole Microlise staff data following DHL, Serco disruption
Experts say incident has 'all the hallmarks of ransomware' Telematics tech biz Microlise says an attack that hit its network likely did not expose customer data, although staff aren't so lucky.…
The Register
1 year, 8 months ago
Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after 'unauthorized activity'
Justice still being served, but many systems are down A statewide IT outage attributed to "unauthorized activity" is affecting the availability of services provided by all courts in Washington.…
Bank Info Security
1 year, 8 months ago
UK Banks Urged to Gird for CrowdStrike-Like Outage
Regulator Tells Regulators to Enhance Third-Party Service SecurityBritish financial institutions must ensure by this spring that they could reasonably weather a third party tech outage on the scale of July's global meltdown of 8.5 million computers triggered by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
Bank Info Security
1 year, 8 months ago
Attack Hits Small Rural Georgia Hospital, Nursing Home
Memorial Hospital and Manor Tapping Its Experience Dealing With Downtime ProceduresA small community hospital and its nursing home in rural Georgia have resorted to paper charts and other manual process for patient care as they deal with a ransomware attack discovered Saturday that knocked its electronic health records and other IT systems offline.
The Hacker News
1 year, 8 months ago
German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested
German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat[.]cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks