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Solar storms, also known as coronal mass ejections, are known to damage electrical grids and cause blackouts; however, experts believe they could also negatively affect internet infrastructure, resulting in a global internet outage. Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi of the University of California, Irvine revealed this last week at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference. In her research, she revealed that, while local and regional internet infrastructure would be at low risk of damage during extreme solar storms because they mostly use fibre optic cables that are not affected by geomagnetically induced currents. Even short cable runs that are vulnerable to these...

The websites for multiple companies, including major airlines such as Southwest, Delta, American and United, appeared to go down or experience problems shortly after midnight Thursday. Meanwhile, websites for E-Trade, ADP, Navy Federal Credit Union, Discover and Vanguard also were having issues, DownDetector reported.

Initial info claims that a fiberoptic cable cut in Brooklyn is the cause. Most major services seem to be down. Zoom, Google, Verizon, many others. Even as far as Pittsburgh, where the NOAA weather radar is apparently out.

Social media platforms had a bit of a meltdown on Wednesday. Facebook (FB), Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter were all experiencing various issues. Users reported bugs, such as images not loading on Instagram and problems with Twitter direct messages, including the app showing notifications for unread DMs that weren't there when users checked their inbox. Facebook says it's resolved outage issues and denies attack "We're currently having some issues with DM delivery and notifications. We're working on a fix and will follow up as soon as we have an update for you. Apologies for the inconvenience," Twitter (TWTR) said in a...

ICANN has scheduled the Root Zone Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover for today, and it could affect some DNS users all over the world. [What that means is potentially no internet for lots of people!] By Rolling the KSK, ICANN implies that a new cryptographic public and private key pair will be generated and the private key will be distributed to internet service providers, enterprise network administrators, and Domain Name System (DNS) resolver operators. KSK Rollover operations began in October 2016 and were scheduled for October 2017. However, ICANN announced that the rollover has been postponed due to the fact...

Video at link is 1:24 minutes in length and was uploaded around 12:50 PST. The video displays a map of regions of outages all occurring in the same place for 3 separate entities (Comcast, Spectrum, Level 3). The vlogger provided the following link for use in learning more about the outages: http://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity/map/ You can change the company viewed but the link is currently set to Comcast-Xfinity.

“Accountants were volunteering to help the customer service team, sales people were cheering on our NOC [network operations center] team,” York said. It’s not quite the thrilling war story of generations past, but it echoes the general uniting of voices from infrastructure, standards, and the security community, who have been concerned about the possibility of attacks like this for years.

Charter internet has been down for about 16 hours. Other providers like Time Warner and Comcast are showing widespread outages. Using phone and data to post this.

An AT&T outage has left thousands of users without access to the internet and phone services. The outages have been reported in the Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville areas in Tennessee. Outages are also reported in Huntsville, AL, and Lexington and Louisville, KY. In Nashville, the Metro Nashville Police Department and the Nashville Fire Department are without internet service. An AT&T outage has impacted several areas in the eastern United States. An AT&T outage has impacted several areas in the eastern United States. NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - An AT&T outage has left thousands of users without access to the internet and...