IBM Cloud resets ‘Days Since Last Major Incident’ clock to zero – after just five days
Sixth big outage in seven weeks, this time users were unable to access more than a dozen services Share
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IBM’s Cloud is experiencing another severity-one issue, the rank it uses for incidents that see business-critical systems become unavailable.
“Users may experience connectivity issues when trying to access the listed cloud services” was the explanation offered when the incident kicked off at 1454 UTC on May 25. Resources in Washington DC, Osaka, London, Dallas, Sydney, Tokyo, and Frankfurt were all impacted.
Those cloud services were: App ID; Cloudant NoSQL DB; Code Engine; Continuous Delivery; Toolchain; DNS Services; Event Streams; Hyper Protect Crypto Services; Hyper Protect Virtual Server; Hyper Protect DBaaS; IBM Cloud Shell; IBM Watson Machine Learning; Mobile Foundation; and MQ in IBM Cloud. IBM’s most recent status update available at the time of writing,
The DarkMarket criminal website shut, hacker gets 12 years in prison, digital currency thefts and more.
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday January 13th. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. To hear the podcast click on the arrow below:
If you’re tired of hearing about COVID and impeachment, here’s some good news: DarkMarket, believed to be the largest criminal website for buying and selling illegal goods, has been shut by the combined efforts of police and intelligence agencies in seven countries. The Europol police co-operative said this week that the site had more than 500,000 users buying and selling goods like malware, drugs, counterfeit money, stolen credit card information through 2,400 sellers. It’s estimated that $170 million worth of digital currency went through the marketplace. German police arrested an Australian citizen believed to be the operator of the site. More than 20 servers in Moldova and Ukrain