AWS Outage Turns High-Tech Beds Into Sleepless Nightmares for U.S. Users

A major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the early hours of October 20 triggered widespread disruptions across the U.S.
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What caused Amazon’s AWS outage, and why did so many major apps go offline?

Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.
Cardinal News

Cyber attacks are on the rise. Here’s how companies and universities protect themselves, and how the rest of us can be savvier users

Companies need to put more resources into keeping their products and networks secure, say Virginia Tech IT experts Thomas Weeks and Caeland Garner. In the meantime, we can be smarter consumers.
The New York Times

How Canadiens’ Florian and Arber Xhekaj gave their mom a special moment that could lead to others

MONTREAL — The drive from the Stoney Creek Costco outside Hamilton to the Bell Centre is about six hours, without traffic. Simona Xhekaj was supposed to work at that Costco on Tuesday morning. She was ...
CNN

For the GOP majority to survive 2026, Trump must do something Obama could not

Donald Trump’s greatest success in the 2024 election may pose the greatest threat to Republicans in the 2026 contest. Trump won reelection last year largely because he succeeded in turning out a large ...
Daily Mail

How a whistleblower passed me devastating proof Starmer's dream of a digital ID card could allow hackers to extort billions from the British taxpayer

Britain is subject to myriad dangers, from terrorist outrages to the threat of a nuclear conflict sparked by one or more of the world's autocratic superpowers. But little attention is given to the ...
Sydney Morning Herald

The emails that reveal how Optus downplayed the Triple Zero disaster

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It began with what should have been a routine upgrade to the network. They are carried out all the time and there’s even a checklist on ...
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Optus CEO apologises after triple-0 failure

On Wednesday, Optus Chief Executive Officer Stephen Rue provided an update on the September 18 triple-0 outage, which has been linked to the deaths of three people. “There are no words I can express ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Optus parent company Singtel apologises for triple-0 outage linked to multiple deaths

Optus parent company Singtel's CEO Yuen Kuan Moon has issued a statement apologising for the triple-0 failure linked to the deaths of three Australians. Optus CEO Stephen Rue says the triple-0 failure ...
The Australian

Newborn’s death unlikely to be linked with Optus outage, police say

Four deaths had been associated with the outage which struck across WA, the Northern Territory and South Australia on Thursday, but on Sunday police took the unusual step of sharing information from a ...
The Independent

Ericsson subsidiary Vonage fined £700,000 over emergency call outage

A telecoms provider owned by Swedish group Ericsson has been fined £700,000 after some UK business customers could not connect to emergency calls for more than a week, Ofcom has said. The UK ...
Daily Mail

How Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie could be affected by their mother Sarah Ferguson's leaked email scandal - and what it could mean for their future role in the royal ...

Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will likely have been left 'devastated' by the latest revelations surrounding their parents, experts have revealed - as a question mark hangs over the future of their ...