IMPLICATIONS FOR THOSE IN NEED OF URGENT HELP For those unfortunate enough to face a health or safety crisis during the outage, the option of using SMS to call for help may not be optimal or useful should the luxury of typing out a message not be afforded to them. Having personally witnessed someone who … Read more
Verizon says it has fully restored its network following a major outage that began earlier in the day. “Verizon engineers have fully restored today’s network disruption that impacted some customers,” the company said in a message posted on social media at about 7:15 p.m. ET on Monday. It said service had now returned “to normal … Read more
If you are a Verizon Wireless customer, you may be experiencing service issues. The top carrier in the nation has not commented on the issue or provided an estimated resolution time. When did the Verizon outage start? DownDetector states the problem has been ongoing in certain areas since at least 10 a.m. ET. Where is … Read more
NetEase Cloud Music, the Hong Kong-listed Chinese music-streaming service with more than 200 million monthly active users, reported a widespread outage for over two hours on Monday afternoon, blaming infrastructure issues. Starting from 3pm, users said online that while the mobile and web apps could be opened, they were unable to play music. Instead they … Read more
Chinese cybersecurity companies are taking advantage of the massive Microsoft Windows outage that upended businesses and grounded flights around the world on Thursday and Friday by promoting their own software, as Beijing pushes to cut the country’s reliance on foreign suppliers. Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity company CrowdStrike caused the outage, one of the largest in history, … Read more
Chad Morehead/Unsplash An AT&T service outage that impacted a huge number of its customers across the U.S. on Thursday was not caused by a cyber attack, the company’s initial investigation has revealed. Instead, the cellular and internet outage was the fault of work that it was carrying out on its systems, AT&T said in a … Read more
New Delhi: Microsoft Teams experienced a mega outage in several parts of the world, and the company saw “significant improvements or full remediation in many of the Teams features affected by this incident” after hours. The spike in problem reported by DownDetector suggested that Teams outage, which started Friday evening, went on till early Saturday … Read more
