AT&T to pay $950,000 to resolve investigation into 911 outage
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AT&T has agreed to pay $950,000 after a Federal Communications Commission investigation found the company failed to deliver 911 calls to emergency call centers and did not notify officials during an August 2023 outage, the
Australia warns of malicious websites after cyber outage
By Sam McKeith SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's cyber intelligence agency said on Saturday that "malicious websites and unofficial code" were being released online claiming to aid recovery from Friday's global digital outage, which hit media, retailers, banks and airlines. Australia was one
Explainer – What caused the global cyber outage?
By Martin Coulter and James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) - A global tech failure disrupted operations across multiple industries on Friday, halting flights and forcing a number of broadcasters off-air, as the outage upended everything from banking to healthcare systems. WHAT HAPPENED? CrowdStrike, a
Apple services restored after brief outages globally
By Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru (Reuters) - Issues with Apple services including its App Store, video and music streaming platforms Apple TV+ and Apple Music, were resolved after outages that affected users across multiple regions, the company's website showed. Issues were also
Microsoft Teams returns to normalcy after outage
By Arsheeya Bajwa, Zaheer Kachwala, Harshita Mary Varghese, and Shubhendu Deshmukh (Reuters) - Microsoft's Teams services were restored on Saturday after a disruption blocked access to the messaging platform. "After extended monitoring and mitigation efforts, we've confirmed that our Microsoft Teams service
Optus parent SingTel denies software upgrade as root cause for outage
By Sameer Manekar (Reuters) - Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, the parent of Australian telecoms provider Optus, said on Thursday its planned software update was not the root cause for an outage last week, contradicting Optus' claims earlier this week. More than 10 million
Instagram back up after global outage affecting thousands of users
A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed Instagram logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration By Urvi Dugar and Jyoti Narayan (Reuters) - Meta Platform Inc's Instagram was back up for most users, the company said on
Google says services back up for US users
Google logo is seen through broken glass in this illustration taken, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration By Urvi Dugar And Mrinmay Dey (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google said services were back up for users in the U.S. after a brief outage late
Netflix down for more than 11,000 US users
Smartphone with Netflix logo is placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic By Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru (Reuters) - Netflix Inc. is down for more than 11,000 users in the United States on late Sunday, according