Tag Archive for: Outage

United routes root of outage to router

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United Airlines blamed a router problem for disrupting service and halting flights for over an hour today. 

According to the Los Angeles Times, the airline said the problem “degraded network connectivity for various applications.” The airline halted flights from 8:26 AM EST until 9:47 AM, after which operations were back to normal, United said.

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PlayStation Network recovering after outage

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Sony’s PlayStation Network is stabilizing after a suspected attack brought it down on Christmas Day and kept it unavailable for most of Friday.

The company announced early on Saturday U.S. Eastern Time via its Ask PlayStation Twitter account that its PS4, PS3 and Vita network services were “gradually coming back online” and by late morning the PlayStation U.S. support website showed the PlayStation Network status as “online.”

Hacker group Lizard Squad claimed responsibility for the outages that hit PlayStation Network and Xbox Live on Christmas Day, saying it had launched successful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the Sony and Microsoft online gaming platforms. However, on Friday the group said via its Twitter account that it had stopped the DDoS attacks and turned its attention to Tor, a service that lets users surf the web, post content online and engage in Internet communications anonymously.

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GoDaddy Says Outage Was Malfunction – CIO Today

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GoDaddy Says Outage Was Malfunction
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"From government to business, let us assume that everyone understands and agrees on the need for data protection," said security researcher Tony Busseri after the GoDaddy outage. "However, very few organizations have looked at their policies and …

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Sony loses money due to quake and PlayStation Network outage (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony loses money due to quake and PlayStation Network outage  —  Sony reported a $199 million loss in the first fiscal quarter ended June 30 because of problems including the Japan earthquake and the hacking of the PlayStation Network.  —  Like Nintendo last night, Sony also cut its profit forecast.

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