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Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Sony has announced that the PlayStation Network service will be taken down for scheduled maintenance during Thursday, the second day of February. The announcement about the downtime was made on the European forums of Sony, which might mean that it will only affe... |
31 January 2012
07:30 GMT |
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Sony has confirmed that its PlayStation Network online service will be down for maintenance later today, both in North America and Europe, so many features, like password reset or PlayStation Store access, won't be available.Sony was severely affected by hackers earlier this year, forcing it to take down and reb... |
11 August 2011
04:40 GMT |
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LiveJournal has experienced downtime during the past couple of days because of a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that overwhelmed the company's servers.The outages began on Tuesday, but the company didn't release a statement until yesterday when it confirmed it was the target of an attack."We c... |
28 July 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Anonymous has made good on its promise of retaliating against the Spanish National Police after several people associated with the hacktivist group were arrested in the country last week."Thousands of people around the world have joined Anonymous; arresting three of them will not hurt us, but will add more people to ... |
13 June 2011
08:58 GMT |
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AnonOps, Anonymous' primary coordination platform, has been attacked by a cell of prominent members who don't agree with how it is currently being administered.AnonOps consists of an IRC network and some additional services which Anonymous supporters use to communicate with each other and organize operation... |
10 May 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Sony is rebuilding the entire PlayStation Netwok (PSN) system in order to enhance security after it recently suffered a serious intrusion that led to a six-day downtime so far.The PSN went down on April 20, but little was known about the cause for the first two days. During that time speculation ran high and many poi... |
26 April 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Sony says the extended PlayStation Network (PSN) downtime is caused by an intrusion into its systems which has prompted a detailed investigation.The PlayStation Network is used by 70 million gamers, many of whom are currently infuriated after being locked out of the service for over three days."An external intrusion ... |
23 April 2011
05:19 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced that the PlayStation Network will be down in Europe starting at 16:05 GMT on Wednesday, March 9 and until 03:00 on Thursday and advises gamers that are interested in using the service to log in before the downtime begins.
Sony says that during the maintenance period... |
9 March 2011
04:33 GMT |
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SourceForge, the world's largest open source software repository, has reset the password for all of its users following a successful attack against its infrastructure.The SourceForge team discovered the security breach on Thursday when exploits were found uploaded on several servers.A preliminary investigation r... |
29 January 2011
01:16 GMT |
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Anonymous has launched a distributed denial of service attack against Bank of America, after the US-based financial giant banned transactions destined for WikiLeaks.About two weeks ago, Bank of America (BoA) joined the list of companies boycotting WikiLeaks by announcing that it will block all transactions suspected ... |
28 December 2010
05:09 GMT |
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Facebook inadvertently gave the world a peek at some of the projects it's working on as some prototype features were pushed to users before they were ready for the prime time. In fact, the site had to be shut down for a period of time to bring everything back to normal and revert the changes."Facebook is availab... |
17 December 2010
10:08 GMT |
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Tumblr, the popular blogging platform, is finally up and running again after more than 24 hours of downtime. Technical issues took down the entire infrastructure and engineers scrambled to fix the problems and get the site back up. Unfortunately, the recovery process was a long one as the engineers had to manually re... |
7 December 2010
05:34 GMT |
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The Tumblr and 4chan websites suffered various downtimes after its members decided to attack each other with distributed denial of service and images of cute kittens.The 4chan image board is the birthplace of many Internet memes and is responsible for advancing many others, such as the LOLcat phenomenon - the posting... |
15 November 2010
11:58 GMT |
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Over the weekend DNS Made Easy, a provider of enterprise DNS and IP Anycast services, was the target of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at over 50 Gbps. The unusually powerful attack led to an aggregated downtime of around 90 minutes.The attack occurred on Saturday and according to... |
9 August 2010
11:10 GMT |
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Australian broadband news website Whirlpool.net.au was the target of several Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks this morning. The hosting provider moved quickly to mitigate, but attackers evaded the restrictions, causing an aggregated downtime of around ten hours.Whirlpool.net.au is one of the most traffick... |
29 June 2010
02:31 GMT |
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The website of the highly popular Practical Fishkeeping aquarium magazine was hacked over a week ago, prompting its administrators to alert the almost 24,000 members that their personal information might have been stolen. The website is still down at the time of writing this article.Practical Fishkeeping is a best-se... |
14 December 2009
09:20 GMT |
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The Bitbucket development project hosting service went down for long periods during the weekend and on Monday morning because of several powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks directed at its EC2-powered infrastructure. Part of the reason why the downtimes were so serious was Amazon's tech support... |
6 October 2009
09:00 GMT |
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Microsoft is planning to roll out a server upgrade for Office Live Small Business this month, a move that will impact all users and businesses that are leveraging the service. For the upcoming two Sundays starting with next week, the Redmond-based company has planned site downtime in order to accommodate the server u... |
3 September 2009
10:48 GMT |
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Valve has announced that it plans to take down most of the Steam services at about 6:00 PM Pacific time on August 6. The company is estimating that the downtime will not be longer than three hours, so all the services should be back up by 9:00 PM if all goes according to plan. If there is anything wrong, Valve promis... |
6 August 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Gawker and its sister websites suffered intermittent downtimes during the weekend and at the beginning of this week due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its hosting server. An internal company memo reveals that the main target was The Consumerist. Gawker Media is a company that maintains seve... |
5 August 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Wikipedia, one of the largest and most visited sites in the world, is currently unavailable for most users, with the site displaying an error message. As you'd expect, Twitter is alright, with many predicting doom and gloom, but very little actual information, the real-time web at its finest. In fact, the downti... |
31 July 2009
08:58 GMT |
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The popular photo library iStockphoto has been targeted by cyber-criminals, who have launched a phishing attack on the website's forums and user e-mail service. The attack has been blocked, but users are advised to change their account password. iStockphoto is considered the pioneer of a concept known as micros... |
5 March 2009
05:22 GMT |
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The official website of Peter Gabriel went offline a few days ago due to what seems to be a theft of his servers hosted by a UK ISP. According to a notification published on the page, the servers were stolen on Sunday night, so webmasters were forced to keep it offline until the entire content could be restored.After... |
7 May 2008
09:42 GMT |
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Even if YouTube is a very popular service and it's owned by the Mountain View super search giant Google, this doesn't necessarily mean that it has no problems with its servers like many other services on the web. Such a problem occurred yesterday when users from all over the world got in panic after the You... |
5 May 2008
03:25 GMT |
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If you plan to log on into any part of the Xbox Live service on April 1, starting with 9 AM GMT, you'd better postpone that plan for some time. Specifically, you'd better postpone it for about three hours, because that's the period for which Microsoft has announced that the Xbox Live services will be d... |
31 March 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Google's services are quite popular these days and every time one of them encounters more or less critical problems, users are the first to notice them. However, every unexpected and, more importantly, unresolved issue forces registered users to look for alternatives, although I'm sure nobody would want thi... |
31 March 2008
02:03 GMT |
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The heavy YouTube viewer must have freaked yesterday. For an entire hour, Google's video sharing service was down for no obvious reason like a scheduled maintenance and with no announcement of any sort. Mayhem started on forums as people around the world began reporting the same thing, like Xeroxed: "Can anybody... |
25 February 2008
15:06 GMT |
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SomethingAwful.com, the comedy website hosting a huge amount of humorous content, went offline a few days ago, apparently because of some DNS problems. Nobody knew for sure what had happened there, so people started asking questions on the website's forum. No less than seven forum pages got full of users' q... |
4 January 2008
09:06 GMT |
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No less than 165,000 websites went offline on Saturday and some of them are still unavailable as their hosting company NaviSite planned a server migration in the same day. Although NaviSite informed the customers that their pages might be down for a while on Saturday, the entire operation was slowed down by some prob... |
9 November 2007
08:12 GMT |
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The Russian Business Network (also known as RBN) went offline yesterday but nobody knows an official reason for the outage. A post on the Trend Micro blog informs that the service became unavailable yesterday at 7 PM PST and at this time its IP addresses are still unreachable. The RBN has always been famous for the i... |
8 November 2007
08:40 GMT |
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Hulu was described as the potential YouTube killer since it comes with impressive content from NBC and other media partners, all of them joining forces for the defeat of the Google video sharing service. But sometimes, a simple unexpected thing is enough to change all your plans and instead of being a YouTube killer,... |
1 November 2007
06:33 GMT |
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The Call of Duty 4 Demo, anxiously expected by all the fans of the series, has caused a serious outage for Yahoo's servers, but there is nothing official yet. The demo,published yesterday on Yahoo Games was available only for a limited period of time, being then replaced with a 404 error displayed on the downloa... |
12 October 2007
05:16 GMT |
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Yahoo Voice is one of the most important features of Yahoo Messenger because it enables consumers to communicate over the web using a microphone and a headset. Because you're able to call a phone from all over the world, the function is pretty important for numerous users so the parent company created a live cha... |
11 October 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Because Google is one of the top web companies, most users expect a 100 percent uptime with no downtimes and without huge loading times obviously caused by bad Internet connections. However, according to the latest reports published by Pingdom - The Uptime Company, Google has an impressive over-99 percent uptime with... |
28 September 2007
03:53 GMT |
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Even if the Mountain View company today celebrates the 9th anniversary, it seems like it is affected by an impressive outage concerning many of the technologies powered by Google. There is no official statement at this time so it's only a rumor but Cameron Newland reports that Google's main page and some ad... |
27 September 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Because Skype was affected by an impressive and very long downtime, numerous consumers started looking for an alternative. JAJAH is just one of the technologies that are able to compete with Skype but, because of the popularity recorded by its rival, it often remained somehow an anonymous service. However, the recent... |
23 August 2007
05:46 GMT |
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The very popular blogging service Blogger was affected by a serious problem that caused the product to become unavailable for approximately one hour. The interesting fact is that the Mountain View company didn't announce the outage, so I guess everybody was surprised when the blogging technology became inaccessi... |
23 August 2007
03:43 GMT |
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The famous communication tool Skype was yesterday affected by a serious problem concerning the login technology which caused one of the most impressive downtimes ever recorded by the software solution. Although the Skype team managed to identify the problem quite quickly they also admitted that it might take up to 24... |
17 August 2007
06:03 GMT |
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Google doesn't sleep. Never! Because it really needs to stay focused onto its products, improve them and sometimes repair the broken things discovered by its users. Every once in a while, it announces maintenance periods that are especially created to fix the recently discovered problems and check if all the thi... |
9 August 2007
04:41 GMT |
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Yahoo was quite inaccessible in the recent period due to some unknown problems with most of its solutions. The users from every corner of the world said that Yahoo Messenger (both downloadable and web-based versions), Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Search and even the entire portal worked very slow and sometimes they didn't ... |
10 July 2007
05:44 GMT |
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The Sunnyvale company Yahoo and the owner of numerous Internet services was affected by a major downtime or at least slow loading times for most of its solutions. Although there was no official statement concerning the problems, the consumers from every corner of the world reported loading issues with Yahoo Messenger... |
9 July 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Google Reader fans from every corner of the world reported that their favorite web-based RSS client was down for a considerable period of time, without any official announcement from the Google engineers. The Reader side of Google Groups was assaulted with complaints posted by the users from numerous countries who su... |
26 June 2007
08:01 GMT |
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The web-based RSS client powered by Google, Reader, encountered some important problems yesterday that caused the loss of numerous feeds saved by the users. Although I'm a huge fan of Google Reader and I use it every day, I wasn't among the ones affected by the vulnerability as my subscriptions were always ... |
12 June 2007
02:36 GMT |
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Back in March, Google was really proud of its company after the Internet publications reported the search giant was offline only for 7 minutes since January 1. Although the numbers are quite amazing, it seems like the Mountain View-based company wants to increase the downtime because more and more Google products are... |
25 April 2007
06:44 GMT |
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Google had only 7 minutes of downtime since January 1 and this is amazing if we think at the impressive number of products owned by the company. According to the reports, Google encountered 3 minutes of downtime on January 18 and on April 3 when some of the Google solutions were unavailable. Today, the search giant a... |
12 April 2007
04:58 GMT |
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Google is one of the most powerful companies on the Internet and you know it because you're searching websites with its search engine every day. Have you ever tried accessing Google but the website was unavailable? If the answer is yes you should know that it was probably a connection error caused by your provid... |
3 April 2007
05:01 GMT |
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Gmail, the well-known mail solution provided by the search giant, now encounters several downtime problems after it was unavailable for a long period of time. As you know, Gmail is quite popular and it was recently made freely available to all the users after the beta product was introduced in April 2004. PC World re... |
29 March 2007
06:33 GMT |
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