Outage

Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry

Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk

Channel21 Nov 2024 | 12

'Cybersecurity issue' at Food Lion parent blamed for US grocery mayhem

Stores still open, but customers report delayed deliveries, invoicing issues, and more at Stop & Shop and others

Cyber-crime12 Nov 2024 | 2

Verizon wobbles on the East Coast, outage cuts off night owls

T-Mobile US and Comcast also stutter slightly

Networks12 Nov 2024 | 4

Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after 'unauthorized activity'

Justice still being served, but many systems are down

Security05 Nov 2024 | 1

Financial institutions told to get their house in order before the next CrowdStrike strikes

Calls for improvements will soon turn into demands when new rules come into force

Security02 Nov 2024 | 34

Delta officially launches lawyers at $500M CrowdStrike problem

Legal action comes months after alleging negligence by Falcon vendor

Cybersecurity Month28 Oct 2024 | 23

Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region

Loose juice led to cooling issue in one zone, but the pain was widespread

Off-Prem25 Oct 2024 | 26

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'

Users just need to 'refresh/restart' their sessions

Software10 Oct 2024 | 61

Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances

Updated Unidentified tech issues now resolved

Personal Tech02 Oct 2024 | 37

Verizon outages across US as hurricane recovery continues

Final update California, Arizona, beyond affected as well as storm-smashed states

Networks30 Sep 2024 | 15

ServiceNow root certificate blunder leaves users high and dry

Updated More like ServiceNo, or maybe ServiceNotforawhile

Software23 Sep 2024 | 13

1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage

Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable

Security19 Sep 2024 | 8

Post-CrowdStrike catastrophe, Microsoft figures moving antivirus out of Windows kernel mode is a good idea

Existing low-level access for security solutions will undergo a rework

OSes13 Sep 2024 | 39

Major ISP bungles settings, causing Microsoft 365, Azure outage

updated AT&T confirms 'brief disruption,' no indication of foul play

Networks12 Sep 2024 | 9

'IT failure' hits blood tests as another critical incident declared by NHS

Unlike in London, foul play isn’t suspected

On-Prem11 Sep 2024 | 7

Alibaba Cloud struggles after blaze at Digital Realty Singapore datacenter

Chinese giant claims lithium batteries exploded, now one server hall is waterlogged

PaaS + IaaS10 Sep 2024 | 4

Down and out: Aegon's pension pothole and TfL's mystery 'maintenance'

When is maintenance maintenance, and when is it 'we've been pwned'?

On-Prem10 Sep 2024 | 15

House to grill CrowdStrike exec on epic IT meltdown... no, not the CEO

VP Adam Meyers to testify about that faulty software update which ruined July and some of August

Software02 Sep 2024 | 21

Black horse down: Lloyds online banking services go dark

Updated Customers report inability to view transactions

Off-Prem02 Sep 2024 | 27

AT&T to shell out $950,000 after quad-state 911 outage

Service takes another dive just as settlement is announced

Networks28 Aug 2024 | 7

China's top Office clone copies Microsoft again – with an inconvenient outage

WPS Office took a long lunch on Wednesday, the day after its developer posted big profits

SaaS22 Aug 2024 | 21

B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

Company continues to investigate root cause

VMware Explore19 Aug 2024 | 8

GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself

Git blame an infrastructure update

Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 14

Stock-trading apps fall under the feet of stampeding panicking investors

They're doing you a favor, probably best not to look today

Applications05 Aug 2024 | 12

'Error' in Microsoft's DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage

A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation

CSO31 Jul 2024 | 18

Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage

Shut the Front Door!

PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15

Uncle Sam opens probe into CrowdStrike turbulence at Delta Air Lines

Concerns abound over why it has taken so long to recover compared to competitors

Security24 Jul 2024 | 10

Administrators have update lessons to learn from the CrowdStrike outage

How could this happen to us? We were supposed to be two versions behind?

Security23 Jul 2024 | 34

Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC says

America's second largest wireless carrier taking steps to prevent a repeat of 12-hour downtime in February

Networks23 Jul 2024 | 15

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes

Updated Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down

Security21 Jul 2024 | 84

Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world

Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24?

Software19 Jul 2024 | 116

Second NHS IT system confirmed to be affected by CrowdStrike issues

Cancer treatments are in jeopardy across multiple healthcare facilities

Software19 Jul 2024 | 34

CrowdStrike shares sink as global IT outage savages systems worldwide

Updated Emergency services, medical practices, airlines, banks, and more all crippled

Software19 Jul 2024 | 285

Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved

Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble

Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66

Americans abroad cut off as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile US suffer roaming outages

Updated Why all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is

Networks27 Jun 2024 | 13

FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again

Less than an hour's profit - that sends a strong message for emergency cover

Networks26 Jun 2024 | 9

British Airways blames T5 luggage chaos on fault 'outside of our control'

Exclusive It was Vodafone, basically

Networks26 Jun 2024 | 104

Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident'

Downtime set to crash into next week

Cyber-crime20 Jun 2024 | 14

Vietnam's internet again in trouble as three of five submarine cables go down

Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty

Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 11

Japanese vid-sharing site Niconico needs rebuild after cyberattack

Offline for four days and counting, as are parent company and e-commerce brand

Security11 Jun 2024 | 5

Unlucky AT&T subscribers struggle to make calls in multi-hour US outage

If you're wondering why connectivity seems toast at the moment

Networks04 Jun 2024 | 2

NYSE technical error sends stocks tumbling

Updated Exchange said the problem involves limit bands designed to prevent volatility

Software03 Jun 2024 | 13

Wanna curb datacenter outages? Try combating burnout with shorter shifts

If hiring more people to work fewer hours isn't appealing, you could always make a robot do it

On-Prem24 May 2024 | 8

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

Final update Alternatively, true AGI has been reached, and the machines decided to delete themselves

Systems23 May 2024 | 42

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun

Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29

Google Cloud blunder sinks Australian fund for a week

That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes again

PaaS + IaaS08 May 2024 | 11

Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped

Police say this appears to be a 'deliberate act.'

Cyber-crime19 Apr 2024 | 44

911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear

Updated Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened?

Networks18 Apr 2024 | 36

US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss

It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts

PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2024 | 4

Cyberattack hits Omni Hotels systems, taking out bookings, payments, door locks

Updated As WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, other Meta bits plus Apple stuff fall offline today

Security03 Apr 2024 | 18

Datacenter outages are on the decline, but when they hit, they hit hard

Power snafus take limelight in latest downtime diary from Uptime Institute

On-Prem02 Apr 2024 | 3

Tech trade union confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage

Exclusive Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution

Cyber-crime25 Mar 2024 | 11

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

Global meltdown turns fast food slow

Off-Prem15 Mar 2024 | 109

LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub

Updated What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network

Personal Tech06 Mar 2024 | 15

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

Updated Millions of Meta addicts suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced

Networks05 Mar 2024 | 61

AT&T's apology for Thursday's outage should stretch to a cup of coffee

Check your service level agreements to make sure you'll at least get a slice of cake when your vendor goes down

Networks26 Feb 2024 | 13