AWS “unable to restore access” to data centers hit by Iran strikes
Damage exceeded what availability zone-design designed to withstand
News - Security & Risk
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Russian drone attack hits Kyivstar office in Ukraine
The telco confirms nobody was injured
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Villagers tie 5G technician to pole in protest over poor cellular coverage in India
As locals decide that poor mobile coverage means it's ok to restrain technicians looking to fix it
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Iron Mountain sues UK's Home Office over £140m passport contract bid
Firm says it was unable to submit tender after government department quadrupled potential penalties at short notice
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Oil leak from data center contaminates water in Bangkok, Thailand
Officials moved swiftly to clean up spill before it could harm residents
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Police arrest man for vandalizing cell tower in Hawkins County, Tennessee
As the investigation remains ongoing
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ASC cable break causes connectivity disruption between Perth and Singapore
Repairs are underway
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Two men arrested over copper theft in Lyon County, Kentucky
Follows an investigation into several copper theft reports
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Telstra confirms July outage was caused by network timing system failure
As independent report finds that the Australian carrier failed to react to previous warnings after 2020 network upgrade
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Man sentenced to prison for operating rogue telecoms infrastructure in Lancashire, UK
The man created rogue mobile antenna to send out fraudulent texts
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India mulls removal of legacy Chinese telecoms kit - report
Could India become the latest market to rip and replace Chinese telecoms equipment?
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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok hit by simultaneous outages
People forced to think for themselves
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Four of Vietnam's subsea cables suffer faults, leading to fresh connectivity outages for country
Not for the first time in recent years
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Privacy-focused email service Proton goes down after cooling failure in Frankfurt data center
CEO admits "we fucked up" after slow failover
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Canada's CityWest to construct new fiber route along Highway 37 in effort to boost network resiliency
It comes after recent disruption to Internet services in the region
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Crop duster plane crashes into radio tower in Oregon, pilot in critical condition
A witness pulled the pilot out of the wreckage
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Vandals attack Openreach network in Bedminster and Chippenham, UK
The UK fiber provider said the two incidents were separate attacks
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Ukrainian partisan group destroys three Russian comms towers in Kursk region
The attack was confirmed via social media by Atesh
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Ukraine says Nvidia Jetson gear found in Russian S-71M missile
Calls for stronger sanctions to stop tech reaching Russia
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Nigeria's Danfodiyo University data center damaged in storm
Equipment damaged and network services disrupted
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TV station sues data center firm over fears it could lose access to 70 years of archive footage
Iron Mountain dragged into dispute between broadcaster and its cloud provider
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Repairs to telecoms infrastructure in earthquake-affected areas of Colombia 80% complete
Network outages have followed the earthquake on August 10
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Verizon offers $25,000 reward to curb California fiber attacks
As the carrier seeks to bring vandals behind Sunday's outage to justice
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PJM considering changes to interconnection reliability requirements for data centers following mass outage
The outage, which originated in Northern Virginia, brought approximately 4GW of data center load offline
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Raid by authorities sees illegal migrant workers arrested at under-construction data center site in Rayong, Thailand
24 illegal workers arrested at the site in the Ban Chang District
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Copper thieves cause another telecoms outage in British Columbia, Canada
A fiber cut in Alberta has caused connectivity disruption
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Verizon blames Sunday's network outage in Southern California on multiple fiber cuts
As vandals caused mobile and Internet disruption for 12,000 customers
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Trump signs EO imposing 15% tariff on chip and solar panel material polysilicon
Comes into effect on December 6