'IP outage' on CenturyLink network caused by Flowspec mitigation, says Cloudflare CEO
Websites lost connectivity because of BGP feature
News - Security & Risk, Tanwen Dawn-Hiscox
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Report: faulty UPS triggers fire at Telstra’s London data center
The fire also tripped the bus bar switch
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India to restore 4G in two districts of Kashmir and Jammu
In tentative step towards a full return of online communications in the long contested region
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Nigerian law enforcement agency to relocate its servers following data center fire
Says the flames took off in the server room
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GCP outage: MainOne leaked Google, CloudFlare IP routes to China Telecom
All involved say the incident was accidental
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Power switch fire, service outage at AT&T data center may have been caused by a lightning strike
Customers in the Dallas Fort Worth area reported that both Internet and TV services were down on Monday
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Equifax fined £500,000 for UK customer breach
The maximum fine under the law predating GDPR
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NTT Security to launch cloud-based threat mitigation service
Using new partner Symantec's software
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia data center causes day-long service disruption
Customers were unable to access online banking services, and transactions on CBA terminals were blocked
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HCSEC: Huawei’s involvement in UK networks cause for “long-term increased risk”
Due to what it says are shortfalls in the company’s engineering practices
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Fire suppression system causes State of New Jersey data center outage
Among other agencies, the commission in charge of election contribution declarations was offline for a day
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Kaspersky Lab confirms plan to build Swiss data center
But the NCSC says it won’t be lifting its ban on the anti-virus software, yet
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Pulling out of Iran deal could lead to more DDoS attacks, say cyber intelligence experts
As Iran likely to redirect its offensive cyber campaigns where it hurts
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia loses 12 million customers’ data
A KPMG inquiry has suggested the tapes on which the information was stored could have fallen from a truck while in transit
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Fire suppression failure at DigiPlex brings down Nordic Nasdaq
Update: the facility’s fire suppression system was triggered, taking one data hall offline; backup systems were slow to respond
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AWS S3 clients receive friendly warning of potential breaches
Security researchers raise red flag, claiming a number of S3 buckets have been left wide open
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Report: Google might lease space in a Korean data center
So that it can offer its cloud services locally
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UKFast suffers outage after workman takes pick axe to cable
Causing instability on UPS route and subsequent failure to trigger gensets
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Data center battery incident causes fire in Australian hospital
Bringing down systems across the city of Cairns
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Corero: Number of DDoS attacks more than doubled in six months
Increasing number of IoT botnets, DDoS-for-hire services are to blame
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Human error causes Australian Broadcasting Corporation breach
Misconfigured repositories were left publicly visible, only discovered during a routine check
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OVH suffers two-hour outage in two locations due to software bug, electrical issue
Roubaix, Strasbourg customers find all services unavailable
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US Supreme Court to review Microsoft’s Irish email case
After the DoJ submitted a petition backed by 33 states
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Gas suppression system, fire extinguisher cause outage in London college
Presumably there was a fire
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Houston data centers withstand Hurricane Harvey
With some relying on redundancies, and others glad to have built facilities outside of flood areas
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Bryan Cave creates specialized data center legal service
Which it will offer to customers worldwide
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Fujitsu’s Sydney data center suffers five hour outage
Causing disruption to customer services and possible loss of numerous virtual machines
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Australian DoD will leave Global Switch due to fears of Chinese interference
Global Switch says there’s no reason for concern