Tag: outage
Russian Hackers Who Took Down Ukraine’s Biggest Mobile Operator Infiltrated It 6 Months Earlier
The hackers "completely destroyed the core" of Kyivstar.
Hackers Take Down Ukraine’s Biggest Mobile Operator
Kyivstar CEO Aleksandr Komarov said the cyberattack was 'a result of' the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Ukraine Says 11 Telcos Were Compromised by Hackers
Attacks were conducted by Sandworm, a Russian military unit that has targeted France and South Korea and repeatedly attempted to cause blackouts in Ukraine.
Is China Deliberately Cutting Taiwan’s Internet Cables?
The 14,000 inhabitants of the Matsu Islands may need to wait two months for repairs to submarine cables that were severed in early February.
What Is the Cost of Rogers’ 15-Hour National Outage?
A leading Canadian telco failed emergency services, banks and retailers as well as phone users, but the cost of the backlash is likely to be far worse than just the revenues lost and compensation paid.
Tier 1 Network Pays $500,000 to End Regulatory Investigation into 37-Hour Outage
This is not the first time CenturyLink has paid the penalty for outages that stopped callers reaching 911 emergency services.
T-Mobile Outage Caused 250mn Calls to Fail
The FCC said a cascade of failures would have been prevented if T-Mobile USA had periodically audited the diversity of their networks.
Huge CenturyLink Outage Shows Risk Lies in the Details
A bad firewall configuration rule forced Tier 1 operator CenturyLink offline and reduced global internet traffic by 3.5%.
Accusations of Fraud in Appointment of South African Telco Directors
There is a battle to control an investor in Cell C whilst the telco is fighting debt and interruptions of service for popular apps.
Zimbabwean Mobile Telcos Say Customers Refunded after Internet Shutdown
Phone users were unhappy about paying for internet access for a period when the government had interrupted service.
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