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Why the Baltic is the most vulnerable to subsea sabotage attacks

In the second part of a series on subsea cables, we look at how Baltic Sea states are dealing with increased threats of Russian interference in their backyard.

15/10/2024

Tech News

Netherlands struck by major IT failures after defence ministry outage

Operations at Eindhoven Airport, which also serves as a military installation, were impacted after major IT outages grounded flights on Wednesday.

28/08/2024

Business

CrowdStrike strikes back at Delta Air Lines over flight disruptions

Last month's global IT outage on 19 July affected a number of airlines including Ryanair, Vueling Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Australia.

05/08/2024

Business

Delta CEO says airline facing €461m in costs from global tech outage

Delta CEO says airline is facing $500 million (€461m) in costs from global tech outage.

31/07/2024

Tech News

US Congress calls Crowdstrike CEO to testify about global IT outage

The CEO of Crowdstrike, the cybersecurity company at the centre of Friday's global IT outage, is being called before a congressional committee.

23/07/2024

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Mass IT outage: 'We will be more vulnerable' to crashes, expert warns

Despite testing, it is impossible to completely rule out crashes like the Crowdstrike outage, a computer science expert tells Euronews Next.

20/07/2024

Tech News

What we know about Crowdstrike, the firm behind the global IT outage

Crowdstrike is facing intense scrutiny after admitting a faulty software update had caused global chaos. But what do we know about the cybersecurity firm?

19/07/2024

Markets

Microsoft and CrowdStrike shares drop after IT outage savages systems

Shares in CrowdStrike and Microsoft were in the red on Friday after a global IT outage hit companies and industries worldwide.

19/07/2024

Tech News

Crowdstrike software update caused major IT outage and worldwide chaos

Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike has admitted that a "defect" in a software update has caused the IT outage currently wrecking havoc worldwide.

19/07/2024

Tech News

Euroviews. Do we have a plan on how to deal with subsea cables sabotage?

Governments around the world must look beyond land and sea to preserve the internet connectivity on which we all depend. Undersea internet cables are at risk. That puts internet access for everyone in Europe and beyond at risk, Jeff Huggins writes.

16/04/2024

Tech News

Facebook and Instagram users lose access in apparent global outage

More than half a million reports were noted by tracking website Downdetector in what was a global outage on Meta's platforms. Access has now returned.

05/03/2024

Tech News

X, formerly Twitter, sees massive outage as thousands report issues

Elon Musk's X suffered one of its biggest outages on Thursday, with users losing access to their posts and timelines.

21/12/2023

Tech News

Twitter owner Elon Musk announces 'temporary' limits on reading tweets

Twitter users ran into service issues on Saturday after owner Elon Musk imposed limits on how many tweets can be read per day.

02/07/2023

Tech News

Parts of Twitter down (again) for users after 'internal change'

The issue - the latest in a string of recent outages on the platform - was resolved after an hour, the company said.

06/03/2023

Tech News

Google outage: Where can users go when the search engine is down?

After a brief outage on Tuesday night, users questioned what alternatives they have to Google. Here are just some other options.

09/08/2022

Tech News

Cut off for 5 weeks, this is what it took to restore Tonga's Internet

The Pacific nation lost almost all connection to the outside world after a volcanic eruption severed its only fibre optic cable in January.

23/02/2022

Tech News

Is Twitter down? Thousands report outages on the social media giant

Twitter users have been reporting problems accessing their accounts or using basic functions on Friday afternoon.

11/02/2022

Tech News

Amazon Alexa back online after users report outages across Europe

The smart speaker system came back online after a two-hour outage after users across the continent reported problems with their Alexa devices.

21/01/2022

Tech News

Here's how Facebook disappeared from the Internet

The sheer scale of Facebook meant its downtime had ripple effects hitting businesses, advertisers and even locking the company's employees out of their offices.

05/10/2021

Tech News

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp back online after global outage

The major outage on Monday affected millions of users of the three social media platforms around the world.

04/10/2021