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Russian cyber spies target CSPs and resellers to abuse delegated access – Reseller News
The group of hackers responsible for the SolarWinds software supply chain attack have continued to seek out ways of indirectly gaining access to enterprise networks by targeting IT and cloud service providers (CSPs) that have admin rights on their customers' systems through virtue of their business relationship.
In a new report this week, Microsoft warns that since May, the group known as Nobelium has targeted over 140 cloud service resellers and technology providers and has succeeded to compromise as many as 14. Nobelium, also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear, is considered the hacking arm of Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR.
"This recent activity is another indicator that Russia is trying to gain long-term, systematic access to a variety of points in the technology supply chain and establish a mechanism for surveilling -- now or in the future -- targets of interest to the Russian government," Tom Burt, corporate vice president for Customer Security & Trust at Microsoft, said in a blog post.
Compromise one to compromise many in the supply chain
Supply chain attacks can come in many forms. They can involve Trojanized software updates like in the SolarWinds, CCleaner (Winnti), NetSarang (ShadowPad) or M.E.Doc (NotPetya) incidents or can involve the abuse of privileged access granted to external contractors, business partners, or IT services providers.
The 2013 credit card breach at Target traced back to the compromised credentials of an HVAC subcontractor. In the past several years, many managed services providers (MSPs) around the world were targeted by ransomware groups to abuse their access to corporate networks.
While security experts have long warned about supply chain risks, enterprises have lagged behind putting the necessary controls and monitoring in place to detect them.
Part of why such attacks can be a big blindspot is because defending against them requires a combination of technologies, including up-to-date IT asset and software inventories, logs analysis, behaviour monitoring, network traffic and credential use, implementing principles of least privilege for accounts and software, multi-factor authentication and more. It's not as easy as patching a vulnerability or deploying endpoint malware detection.
In fact, most of the Nobelium attacks that Microsoft has seen do not exploit any vulnerability. Instead, the group uses well-known techniques like spear phishing, access token theft, unprotected API abuse, and password spraying (i.e., trying common passwords against a list of usernames present in the system). In fact, one successful supply chain attack can collect credentials for additional supply chain attacks.
In one case, the Microsoft researchers traced a Nobelium attack through four distinct providers before reaching a downstream customer. The group gained access to a cloud services provider and launched a spear-phishing attack against an MSP. With the credentials collected from the MSP they jumped to a different cloud service provider where they exploited an AD Azure trust relationship to access an IT provider and finally jump to the end victim's network.
"By stealing credentials and compromising accounts at the service provider level, Nobelium can take advantage of several potential vectors, including but not limited to delegated administrative privileges (DAP), and then leverage that access to extend downstream attacks through trusted channels like externally facing VPNs or unique provider-customer solutions that enable network access," the researchers warned in an advisory.
The hackers are very adept at researching and understanding the business and access relationships between various services providers, subscription resellers, and their customers or partners. The downstream organisations that eventually get compromised are carefully selected based on their value to intelligence collection efforts.
"Microsoft assesses that organisations, such as cloud service providers and other technology organisations who manage services on behalf of downstream customers, will be of continued interest to persistent threat actors and are at risk for targeting via a variety of methods, from credential access to targeted social engineering via legitimate business processes and procedures," the company said.
Nobelium behaviours and characteristics
According to the company, behaviours and characteristics common to Nobelium intrusions including the leveraging of anonymous infrastructure, which may include low-reputation proxy services, cloud hosting services, and TOR, to authenticate to victims.
Nobelium has been observed leveraging scripted capabilities, including but not limited to RoadTools or AADInternals, to conduct enumeration of Azure AD, which can result in authentication with user agents of scripting environments.
In addition, Nobelium has been observed authenticating to accounts from anomalous locations that might trigger impossible travel analytics or fail to pass deployed conditional access policies, alongside modifying Azure AD to enable long-term persistence and access to sensitive information. This can include the creation of users, consent of Azure AD applications, granting of roles to users and applications, and creation of additional service principal credentials.
In one incident, MSTIC observed the use of Azure RunCommand, paired with Azure admin-on-behalf-of (AOBO), as a technique to gain access to virtual machines and shift access from cloud to on-premises.
Furthermore, Nobelium has demonstrated an ongoing interest in targeting privileged users, including Global Administrators. Security of at-risk organisations is greatly enhanced by prioritising events that are detected on privileged accounts.
Nobelium is frequently observed conducting activities consistent with intelligence collection. Routinely monitoring various log sources for anomalies consistent with data exfiltration can serve as an early warning for compromise.
Organisations previously targeted by Nobelium might experience recurring activity and would benefit from implementing proactive monitoring for new attacks.
How to mitigate Nobeliums supply chain attacks
Microsoft released specific guidance for partners and resellers operating on its cloud platforms. The Microsoft Partner Center security requirements include using multifactor authentication and conditional access policies for cross-tenant access, as well as monitoring the Partner Center activity log for any suspicious user activities, high privileged user creations, and role assignments and so on.
More generally, all partners are advised to remove delegated administrative privileges that are no longer in use. End customers provide DAP to their services providers to manage their subscriptions on their behalf. Microsoft plans to introduce a tool that will help partners discover unused DAP connections as well as review how their active DAP connections are being used.
Downstream customers should also review, audit and minimise access privileges and delegated permissions they've granted to partners as well as review all admin accounts and the devices authorised for MFA use on those accounts.
"In addition to using the delegated administrative privilege capabilities, some cloud service providers use business-to-business (B2B) accounts or local administrator accounts in customer tenants," Microsoft said. "We recommend that you identify whether your cloud service providers use these, and if so, ensure those accounts are well-governed and have least-privilege access in your tenant. Microsoft recommends against the use of 'shared' administrator accounts."
Azure AD sign-ins and configuration changes should be reviewed periodically through the Azure AD sign-in logs, audit logs and the Microsoft 365 compliance centre. Organisations should understand the logging options available to them on their cloud platforms, as well as ask the partners that manage such services for them about their own logging policies and use.
Microsoft has also published on GitHub detections and hunting queries for Azure Sentinel, as well as detections for Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Cloud App Security that can be used to detect some of the behaviour and techniques associated with supply chain attacks such as those performed by Nobelium.
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How School Districts Can Successfully Shift to the Cloud – EdTech Magazine: Focus on K-12
Tulsa Public Schools Sean Berkstresser and Joe Jennings found value in a hybrid cloud and on-premises architecture.
Although Tulsa Public Schools is a cloud-first organization, it only moves applications to the cloud if it makes business sense and provides value. If cloud is not the best option, we will keep it on-premises, he says.
Most mission-critical administrative applications are still on-premises because its more affordable to operate them in house, says Sean Berkstresser, the districts executive director of information and analytics.
While savings can be a major incentive to switch to the cloud, cloud pricing models are sometimes confusing for cloud newbies. Its much cheaper to sign a multiyear contract than to pay an hourly rate, says Kris Hagel, executive director of digital learning at Peninsula School District in Gig Harbor, Wash.
When considering infrastructure services in the public cloud, Hagel says districts should pilot their cloud projects before fully implementing them to make sure the technology meets their requirements and is affordable.
Thats what the district did before deploying the AWS virtual desktop service AppStream, which allows students to run powerful software such as Adobe Creative Cloud, computer-assisted design programs and other programs on their Chromebooks for their graphics design, engineering and computer science classes.
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We started to slowly get an idea of the cost, Hagel says. We used spreadsheets to do cost estimates and realized this would be a good thing for us.
Vincent Vinueza, director of technical support services for Broward County Public Schools in Florida, also recommends pilots to get an accurate forecast of infrastructure cloud costs. The major cloud providers offer pricing calculators, but the results can be confusing.
Call your provider, Vinueza says. Explain the situation and your expectations from a cost and delivery perspective, and do a proof of concept.
At West Windsor-Plainsboro, Doctor knew a cloud subscription required a big annual investment. However, by migrating to the cloud, the district would need less on-premises hardware. When Doctor factored in hardware prices and the cost of maintaining, powering and cooling it, he found a lower total cost of ownership.
Now, two years later, those savings have come to fruition. VMC on AWS is worth the investment, Doctor says. When the pandemic closed down schools, the cloud setup provided the district the extra compute power and storage it needed to pivot and provide virtual desktops to a suddenly remote workforce and student body.
We paid for VMC as an insurance policy, waiting for a disaster, and Id call COVID-19 a pretty big disaster, he says.
Major cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have built secure cloud services, but IT departments still have to configure their cloud workloads securely to protect student and employee data, says Peninsula School Districts Hagel.
When you start building things in the cloud, make sure you have the same thought processes you would have if you built them locally, such as building in firewalls and securing networks, he says.
IT leaders advise clients to take advantage of the engineering and customer support services that cloud giants are offering as they focus on attracting new educational customers.
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Cloud storage services are riddled with malware, and theres little they can do about it – TechRadar
Cybersecurity researchers have accused Microsoft of knowingly hosting dangerous malware for years.
The conversation kickstarter was the security researcher known as TheAnalyst, who took to Twitter to call out Microsoft for dragging its feet when it came to removing ransomware facilitating malware hosted on OneDrive.
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Former Microsoft security analyst Kevin Beaumont joined in the conversation noting that OneDrive has been used for hosting malware for years.
Microsoft cannot advertise themselves as the security leader with 8000 security employees and trillions of signals if they cannot prevent their own Office365 platform being directly used to launch Conti ransomware. OneDrive abuse has been going on for years, noted Beaumont.
Beaumont continued, explaining that getting things taken down from OneDrive is a nightmarish process. He went as far as to cite Microsofts rather slow reaction times to refer to it as the worlds best malware hoster for about a decade.
However, reporting on the development, HotHardware notes that using cloud storage services to host malware is a problem that plagues other vendors as well. In fact, according to a research by the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Google Cloud and Cloudflare are currently among the top online malware hosting networks.
Beaumont agrees that the problem isnt exclusive to Microsoft, calling on all tech companies have got to do better.
According to security experts that TechRadar Pro spoke to, the issue isnt as simple to fix as it sounds.
Morey Haber, chief security officer, with cybersecurity vendor BeyondTrust, argues that thanks to the prevailing privacy-paramount atmosphere, it wouldnt take much effort for anyone to get away with uploading malware to their private online storage.
The question is, does the online provider have the authority or responsibility to assess the files, in a private instance, for malware or potential illegal activity? And, if they do, how much authority do they have to assess anything for any type of legal issues? Simply, where does the cloud service provider start and stop being a representative for law enforcement, asks Haber.
He continues that of course if the malware in the cloud is publicly accessible, or accessible to large quantities of people, or being served to individuals as a part of an attack or other illegal activity, it is established procedure for the cloud provider to take them down immediately.
However, in his opinion assessing a private instance shouldnt be subject to the same legal paradigm. This would perhaps explain the inaction of the cloud providers against the malware hosted in the threat actors private silos.
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Is On-Prem eDiscovery Software Becoming a Thing of the Past? – JD Supra
[author: Jim Gill, Legal Technology Writer]
Not so long ago, one of the big discussions in LegalTech circles was moving to the cloud.
Back then -- Im talking the mid-teens, not ancient history -- there were a lot of concerns about moving eDiscovery data to what many thought of as a singular, nebulous unknown called the cloud.
Things have changed quite a bit in those few short years, with more eDiscovery SaaS offerings on the market, and more corporate legal teams and law firms using hosted solutions. In fact, according to the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for eDiscovery, In aggregate, the majority of eDiscovery solution deployments are delivered via hosting by a third party. However, the same report shows that 43% are still using their tried-and-true on-prem solutions. Its a battle of ideas: if its not broken, dont fix it vs. if youre only solving todays problems, youre behind.
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One of the main reasons organizations cite for continuing with an on-prem deployment is the desire for more control over eDiscovery data. But this requires a full IT team, which manages hardware and software upgrades, and maintenance, while understanding the specific requirements that their legal department or law firm needs from the solution. Add that to being responsible for securing against hacks and data breaches, while maintaining the needed upgrades for handling new data sources, and youre already looking at a heavy burden.
And with the COVID-19 Pandemic and the move en masse to remote work demanding even more from IT staff, and its easy to see why there was a major shift to cloud eDiscovery this past year.
As organizations adapt to work-from-home practices, the 2021 Gartner Market Guide for E-Discovery Solutions states, infrastructure and operations leaders need new capabilities to better manage the eDiscovery of workstream collaboration products and to securely conduct e-discovery remotely.
The report continues, Buyers are willing to store sensitive, eDiscovery information off-premises to offload the management of these environments from I&O teams[and] to support remote eDiscovery as organizations shift resources to work-from-home staffing.
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As I mentioned above, many organizations see keeping their eDiscovery on-prem as a security advantage, which isnt completely wrong. In an earlier article, I wrote about how the Air Force uses decades-old technology as a cybersecurity advantage (i.e. if it was built pre-internet, it cant be hacked.)
But the heavy-lift required of the IT department, particularly with law firms, to maintain security for an on-prem deployment is a large one, not to mention managing all software updates, patches, and other upgrades. And with law firms being targeted more and more by hackers, a shared responsibility on security might be welcomed.
There is also an increased desire for, Reducing reliance on IT and improving self-service capabilities for legal and compliance users by evaluating solutions based on ease of use and simplicity, according to Gartner, because centrally stored data is more efficient and effective to collect, process, host, review and produce ESI in a secure cloud environment.
The report goes on to say, By creating a cross-functional team of IT and legal staff to ensure that technology selection aligns with infrastructure strategy, while enhancing legal workflow processes and user experience[legal teams can] eliminate gaps and overlaps between e-discovery tools associated with multiple buying cycles.
Cost
A final consideration that arises with the on-prem vs. cloud eDiscovery debate is cost. On-prem has a large up-front cost and a lengthy implementation and training cycle, but once youre done, youre done--at least until you want to update. This may be another reason why a large number of organizations are still hanging onto their on-prem systems. Theyre paid for, people know how to use them, and the idea of switching to a new workflow is more overwhelming than just staying the course.
But as the 2021 Gartner report points out, more users continue to expect a clear, predictable and transparent pricing structure, giving rise to less-complex subscription pricing models [which] are trending to provide more-predictable, transparent structures to mitigate unexpected costs.
Subscription-based licensing options have become the most common, the report states, although they cite the many variations that may be applied to that pricing: TB processed; TB stored; or the number of matters, users or custodians (or a combination of these factors).
Besides reducing the upfront cost of eDiscovery technology by spreading it out over a pay-as-you-go subscription model, cloud-based deployments also provide the latest in Artificial Intelligence and Analytics, which can reduce the amount of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) sent to review and production through Live EDA, Active Learning, and other capabilities. They also are continually updated to provide capability for new data types, particularly for collaboration tools such as Slack and Teams, which have greatly increased since the move to a more remote workplace.
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5 Best Web Hosting in Oklahoma City, OK – Kev’s Best
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NOVO Health’s Independent Providers Take Advantage of New Cloud-Based Epic EHR Installation to Fuel Innovation and Better Patient Care – Business Wire
APPLETON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Patients will have access to a wider range of high-quality physicians and health care providers thanks to a health records implementation launched by NOVO Health Technology Group, Focus Solutions and Medix Technology.
NOVO Health, through its subsidiary NOVO Health Technology Group, entered into an agreement with Epic to provide an integrated, comprehensive health record system to independent health care providers within the NOVO Health community. The agreement empowers independent health care providers with the quality EHR tools they need without compromising their independence.
To customize the implementation of this EHR offering for independent providers and maximize both the affordability and functionality of the offering, NOVO Health Technology Group partnered with Medix Technology and Focus Solutions. Together, they launched the full-stack, cloud-based installation of Epic using Microsoft Azure technology.
Accessibility and affordability are key pillars of the NOVO Health platform for both patients and providers, Curt Kubiak, CEO of NOVO Health. The Epic EHR and this hosting solution addresses both of those critical issues.
Focus Solutions embraced Azure-based cloud solutions to provide NOVO Health with enhanced data flexibility and accessibility through an optimized data network topology.
For providers who participate in NOVO Health programs, data benefits will provide critical fuel for quality care, engagement and patient experience initiatives in the months and years ahead. Providers are also better positioned to further leverage tools such as Microsoft Dynamics to improve patient experience, Microsoft Power BI for advanced healthcare analytics and sharper focus on quality initiatives through the scalability of Azure. The option provides an independent provider group with a unified data center strategy inclusive of all systems beyond their core Epic EHR.
This full-stack Epic implementation on Azure is a technology and health care industry innovation, bringing together best-of-class hardware, software and networking solutions.
"This challenging and collaborative project brought out the best in our team, Bruce Schaumberg, Founder of Focus Solutions, said. Having Medix (Technology) in our corner was invaluable. The best part, though, is coming together to help NOVO Health flourish and position themselves for future success and growth."
Access to critical health information via Epic will enable providers to effectively communicate with local health systems and will dramatically reduce the time it takes to see a patient, provide a proper diagnosis and treatment plan, and return that patient to health and lifestyle.
Executing such a full-stack strategy requires a top-notch team. To support the implementation of this cutting edge solution, talent partner Medix Technology recruited and prepared over two dozen people. This team included analysts and project leaders with Epic certification.
The project to launch NOVO Healths EHR Access Program kicked off September 2020, with the first install of its new Epic-powered solution completed in April 2021.
Medix Technology, a nationwide workforce solutions and consulting organization, brings their considerable experience with Epic implementations to ensure program success. Medix Technology will deliver project advisory services and pre-implementation planning.
"Our team was excited to bring our MedixDirect solution model and experience in project leadership to meet the needs of NOVO Health's unique build," said Eric Born, Vice President of Business Development at Medix Technology. "This partnership was about creating customized solutions for scalable growth."
Focus Solutions, a health care technology company and a Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) based in Green Bay, Wis., will be hosting Epic data for the independent practices.
Were really excited to be able to unlock this kind of connectivity for the independent provider, said Focus Solutions CTO Jason Lamine. Focus Solutions is strategically positioned to assist with data analytics and interoperability solutions and help NOVO Healths providers move the needle.
About NOVO Health
NOVO Health represents independent groups and accredited facilities offering specialty health care solutions and related services, connecting them with employers via the NOVO Health Market. Programs include bundled payments for health care, on-site and near-site clinic services, medical tourism and travel packages, subject matter consultants, electronic health record access and ASC development and expansion services. Novohealth.com
About Focus Solutions
Focus Solutions is a healthcare technology consultancy based in Green Bay, WI. Focus serves industry-leading healthcare organizations throughout the United States specializing in bringing practical EHR, clinical workflow, data analytics, and cloud hosting solutions to the one industry we serve health care. We are a proud Microsoft Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP), and our team features 27+ Certified Epic Analysts. To learn how Focus Solutions can help your organization, please visit http://www.focushcs.com.
About Medix Technology
As a part of the Medix family, Medix Technology provides expert IT and Epic consulting and staffing solutions. Headquartered in Chicago and with offices across the U.S., Medix Technology is not your typical staffing company. Our signature solution, MedixDirect, develops local talent for careers as Epic-certified professionals. Driven by our core purpose of positively impacting lives, we are different because we listen when others are selling. Discover the difference at http://www.medixteam.com.
Epic is a registered trademark of Epic Systems Corporation.
7 Major Website Outages That Wreaked OnlinHavoc This Past Year – Newsweek
Whether talking to your friends, doing assignments, watching television or keeping up with the news, we're basically online 24/7 nowadays, and sometimes you can forget how much you rely on the internet.
But we can be given a sharp shock when a website we depend on goes downnot least when you realise how many of your lifelines are connected to that one server.
The problems are exacerbated by service providers increasingly owning more and more of the internet, so that if one company suffers a problem, it can have a major knock-on effect for the internet as a whole.
Over the past year, there's been a number of website outages that have left us scrambling. Here are seven of the worst...
Being off Facebook for a few hours, especially if you connect with your friends through Messenger, can be a bit of a pain. But given that Facebook owns WhatsApp and Instagram, an outage at the social network can be catastrophic for communication.
That's exactly what happened on October 4, when a "faulty configuration change" prevented Facebook's 3.5 billion users from accessing its apps and products for nearly six hours.
Anybody using Facebook to log in to third-party apps was also blocked from these platforms. Twitter reportedly struggled to cope with the traffic as millions flocked to the app in lieu of other communication options.
This was even worse for Facebook because staff were using the same network to access the network remotely. Facebook Workplace, the internal communications platform used by its staff, was also down, while access cards used by staff to enter the offices were reportedly dependent on the internal systems working.
Facebook advertises where its servers are to the internet using the Border Gateway Protocol, but a "faulty configuration change" meant that it stopped telling routers where its data centres were, and it appeared to the routers that they didn't exist.
In a statement, it added: "We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime."
We sometimes joke that a celebrity's actions can "break the internet" ...it turns out all you actually need is a failure at a content delivery network.
On June 8, some of the world's biggest news websites including CNN, the New Yotrk Times and CNN were taken down, as well as Amazon, Target, Twitch, Spotify, Pinterest, Hulu, Reddit and the U.K. government website, when cloud service provider Fastly suffered an outage.
Fastly, which improves load times for websites and operates a server network to prevent the effects of traffic overloads, suffered an outage due to a bad software update, saying it had identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across its servers.
The outage lasted approximately an hour.
On November 25, 2020, Amazon Web Services, one of the world's most widely used cloud computing services, suffered an outage that wreaked havoc online.
News sites like The Washington Post, product providers like Adobe and workplace tools like Trello were knocked out due to the outage, which lasted a number of hours.
People also struggled to use Amazon owned products like Ring, Alexa and iRobot.
AWS later explained that the outage was caused by its attempts to add new servers to its network.
A massive computing network in Northern Virginia began to fail after AWS started to make "a relatively small addition of capacity" to the system just before 6 a.m. Eastern time, with the new capacity and an "operating system configuration" setting off a series of errors that caused an outage in the network of servers.
On December 14, 2020, many realised how much they depend on Google services when the company suffered a worldwide outage that lasted about 45 minutes.
While its search engine was fine, the outage affected Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube, meaning those at work and those just chilling out were equally as affected. It also blocked those who logged in to third-party apps using Google sign-ins.
Perhaps even more bizarre is that some were left sitting in the dark and the cold as their Google Home apps and Nest services were left inoperable.
The issue was caused by a failure in the company's authentication tools, which manage how users log in to services run by both Google and third-party developers.
A Google spokesperson blamed "an internal storage quota issue."
Essentially, Google's internal tools failed to allocate enough storage space for services that handle authentication. The system should have automatically made more storage available, but it didn't which meant the system crashed.
Okay, so it was not quite within the last year, but it would be remiss not to include it.
On August 30, 2020, a control plane failure at the major global internet service provider (ISP) CenturyLink/Level 3 left it out of action for five hours.
The ISP is supposed to keep other sites up and running, but as it peers with providers and enterprises including Cloudflare, Google, the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Discord, Hulu and OpenTable, this led to a huge worldwide outage being felt by millions of internet users across the United States and Europe.
Cloudflare said its outage was caused by a "third-party transit provider incident," and CenturyLink later explained there was an IP outage involving firewall and BGP (border gateway protocol, or the routing protocol for the internet) routing that impacted Content Delivery Networks (CDN).
In an in-depth analysis sent to customers, CenturyLink said that an improperly configured flowspec was part of an unsuccessful effort to block unwanted traffic on behalf of a customer.
The outage reportedly led to a 3.5 percent drop in global internet traffic, making it one of the biggest internet outages ever recorded.
Perhaps in another year, a work messaging system going down wouldn't have been that much of a big deal. But in 2021, when millions are working from home, it's a disaster.
On January 4, messaging service Slack suffered a major outage in the U.S., the U.K., Japan, India and Germany, on the first day back to work and school for millions,
The outage began about 10 a.m. ET and service was still sporadic two and a half hours later. There was tentative improvement until most issues were resolved about 3 p.m.
Slack pinned the source of the issue on network scaling issues by the AWS Transit Gateway, which didn't scale fast enough to accommodate the spike in demand for Slack's services as millions returned to work and school after the holidays.
A statement shared to customers read: "Around 6:00 a.m. PST we began to experience packet loss between servers caused by a routing problem between network boundaries on the network of our cloud provider."
On July 22, sites like Amazon, UPS, Airnbnb, the PlayStation Network, Steam and FedEx went down, all thanks to an outage with the Akamai Edge domain name system (DNS) service.
People trying to access these sites, plus others including American Express, Delta Airlines and Home Depot, were met with a DNS error message.
Akamai said the outage, which lasted about an hour, was caused by a bug triggered by a software update.
A statement read: "Upon rolling back the software configuration update, the services resumed normal operations. Akamai can confirm this was not a cyberattack against Akamai's platform."
The company said it would be reviewing its update processes in light of the issue.
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