Netflix The wave of Leave the World Behind jokes that emerged during the nationwide AT&T outage may have been onto something. According to a new report, the widespread outage is being investigated as a potential cyberattack. If true, that would mean the AT&T outage mimicked the Netflix movie starring Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke far …
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Rumble thinks it was knocked offline by targeted cyberattack for hosting Jan. 6 Capitol riot videos
Rumble, the video hosting platform popular among the far-right, was allegedly hit with a cyberattack that spurred countless theories on who is to blame. Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski responded to complaints that the platform was down on Monday by suggesting the attack could be linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “I can confirm that …
Ticketmaster blames ‘cyberattack’ for disastrous Taylor Swift ticket launch
Ticketmaster blamed a “cyberattack” for the issues its website faced when attempting to sell Taylor Swift tickets back in November. Joe Berchtold, president of Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, made the claim during his Tuesday appearance in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Berchtold’s prepared statement noted that when tickets became available for Swift’s U.S. …
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Biden says no evidence of cyberattack in FAA outage that grounded flights
President Joe Biden stated Wednesday that it is currently unknown whether a cyberattack was responsible for the computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that grounded departing flights across the country. While responding to questions from reporters at the White House, Biden said that the FAA had not determined the cause of the issue …
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DDoS attack targets Israeli government, called largest-ever cyberattack against it
Government websites in Israel were targeted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday in what some described as the largest ever cyberattack against the country. The Israeli cyber authority confirmed, following reporting from Haaretz, that the attack had taken offline the websites for the Prime Minister’s Office as well as those for the ministries …
Ukraine Suspects Russia Behind Massive Cyberattack
KYIV – After days of unsuccessful negotiations between the US, NATO, and Russia, hackers took down dozens of Ukrainian government websites and posted an ominous warning on several for the country to “be afraid and expect worse.” The cyberattack occurred overnight on Thursday and Friday morning, and it took down more than a dozen official …
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