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2021-07-22 Cyber

[Fox Business] Internet outage monitoring website DownDetector.com on Thursday showed connection failures impacting content delivery and cloud service company Akamai, which said the outage was not the result of a cyber attack.

Websites for Amazon, Google, Verizon, Delta, HBO Max, Airbnb, AT&T Fidelity, FedEx, UPS, Southwest Airlines, HomeDepot and others may have been impacted across the country and especially in major cities like New York City; Washington, D.C., and Chicago, according to DownDector.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Mystery global outage wipes out websites including UPS, FedEX, Amazon, HBO Max and major airlines: 911 services ALSO go down in multiple East Coast cities

Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-22 14:01|| 2021-07-22 14:01|| Front Page Top

#2 This has been a test of the Homeland Security, CDC, and FBI Alert Network. Had this been a real alert, you would have been instructed to......

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-22 14:12|| 2021-07-22 14:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, I was expecting this. The new normal. The meat processor in Canada was a practice run. They boasted the next hacking would be more pervasive. Meanwhile chip cards, banks are all being hacked. Chase told a customer it was from Amazon or WIFI. One local bank had 150 customers hacked in one day. Numbers higher for other local banks. So much for going cashless.

Posted by Dale 2021-07-22 14:36|| 2021-07-22 14:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Akamai Edge DNS (Domain Name Service) went down, rumors of an upgrade gone wrong. Hmm.

Since world + dog use this service, they went down too. Sounds like good ol' Single Point of Failure but done at scale.

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-22 16:38|| 2021-07-22 16:38|| Front Page Top

00:11 Skidmark