Pierce Manhammer
Moderator
Today, reports of a massive, a multi-carrier cell outage this morning EST and a separate story about Pharmacies being targeted.
I'd bet these are linked - giant DDoS attacks have come from many countries for years. When I managed my own servers exposed on the net, I blocked several countries, whole classes, and A's; it dropped the size of my firewall logs to nothing.
update:
www.space.com
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www.foxbusiness.com
www.newsweek.com
www.the-express.com
I am surprised that these companies do not have tighter POE countermeasures - usually a well configured endpoint provider can handle these attacks well, along with tight layer rules...
I'd bet these are linked - giant DDoS attacks have come from many countries for years. When I managed my own servers exposed on the net, I blocked several countries, whole classes, and A's; it dropped the size of my firewall logs to nothing.
update:
Powerful twin solar flares erupt from sun as cell phone outages spike across US (video)
It remains unclear if there is a connection between the two events.
www.space.com
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Cellphone outage hits AT&T customers nationwide; Verizon and T-Mobile users also affected
AT&T has yet to say anything about a reported service outage impacting tens of thousands of customers nationwide Thursday morning.
911 outage nationwide as emergency system crashes for millions
People have been asked to text 911 to report an emergency after a fault with AT&T meant calls could not be made to the number.
www.newsweek.com
Cyberattack on health-care tech company causes prescription delays across US
Change Healthcare reported the issues due to a cyberattack which is causing havoc for patients attempting to fill prescriptions.
I am surprised that these companies do not have tighter POE countermeasures - usually a well configured endpoint provider can handle these attacks well, along with tight layer rules...
