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Why the CrowdStrike outage was a wakeup call for developer teams
Software development leaders say their organization did not have a robust incident response plan in place to contend with disruption before the 2024 CrowdStrike outage. A report from IT services provider Adaptavist surveyed development leaders on how their organization reacted to the CrowdStrike outage in July 2024, which affected an estimated 8.5 million devices. The respondents came from organizations with…
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Do This Before the Next Internet Outage If You Work From Home
Summary You can sync cloud files locally on your Windows device for major cloud storage solutions like OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox. Syncing cloud files locally will enable you to view and edit them offline when you experience an internet outage while working from home. The files will be resynced and merged with the online version once your Windows computer…
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A Slack outage is breaking notifications
Some Slack users are finding that their notifications aren’t showing up on the platform this morning, or that their corresponding messages are harder to find than usual. A few of my colleagues are reporting similar issues on The Verge’s Slack channels, and I’ve been receiving repeated notifications for thread messages that I’ve already marked as read. The issues also seem…
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5 Ways to Stay Warm During a Winter Power Outage
If you’re fortunate enough to have a well-maintained wood stove, use it. Never go to bed with a fire burning, however, and keep the area immediately around the fireplace or stove clear of any flammable materials. Keep kids and pets away, too. If you don’t have a fireplace, consider using a portable propane heater. But make sure you use it…
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Bitbucket services “hard down” due to major worldwide outage
Bitbucket is investigating a massive outage affecting Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud customers worldwide, with the company saying its cloud services are “hard down.” This web-based version control repository hosting service, owned by Atlassian, helps developers and teams collaborate on software projects by managing code, tracking changes, and integrating with other tools for development workflows. Bitbucket is popular among small teams and large enterprises using Atlassian’s ecosystem of tools…
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Microsoft MFA outage blocking access to Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) outage that is blocking customers from accessing Microsoft 365 Office apps. Some affected Microsoft 365 users have also reported that MFA registration and reset are not working. “Users may be unable to access some Microsoft 365 Apps when authenticating with MFA,” Microsoft said in an incident alert published in the admin center. “We’re re-directing traffic…
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Proton worldwide outage caused by Kubernetes migration, software change
Swiss tech company Proton, which provides privacy-focused online services, says that a Thursday worldwide outage was caused by an ongoing infrastructure migration to Kubernetes and a software change that triggered an initial load spike. As the company revealed yesterday in an incident report published on its status page, the outage started around 10:00 AM ET. Proton users reported that they…
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Steam is down — live updates on major outage
2024-12-19T19:01:34.719Z Downdetector reports rolling in (Image credit: Downdetector) As is usually the case with these kinds of outages, we spotted it by going to Downdetector and seeing a massive spike in user reports — and this one is particularly massive, with more than 6,000 user reports pouring in over half an hour. Anytime we see reports jump from the baseline…
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IT leaders fear a repeat of the CrowdStrike outage in 2025
Almost nine-in-ten (88%) executives predict a major IT outage on the scale of the CrowdStrike incident within the next 12 months, according to research from PagerDuty. A majority in the UK. (91%), US (89%), Australia (88%), and Japan (78%) believe an outage is a foregone conclusion and not a matter of “if” but “when.” The CrowdStrike outage caused chaos when…
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by massive worldwide outage
Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp suffered a massive worldwide Wednesday afternoon, with services impacted in varying degrees based on user’s region. According to DownDetector, the outage occurred at approximately 12:40 PM ET, with many users unable to access the services through the websites and apps or send messages through WhatsApp. When users attempted to access Facebook, they were greeted with errors stating,…
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