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The Guardian's, Dan Sabbagh, reported on the Internet outage June 7, 2021 with the headline "Internet outage illustrates lack of resilience at heart of critical services." He says, for 45 minutes the gov.uk domain was "knocked out," along with many other Internet sites. This outage affected Covid-19 test sites. His question: "who do you call when the Internet is out?" That is a very good question. Sabbagh reported that the outage originated with Fastly, a business that provides website content services (CDN).

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/08/internet-outage-illustrates-lack-of-resilience-at-heart-of-critical-services

Ryan Browne and Sam Shead of CNBC provided more details on the Fastly issues. They write, "A slew of major websites including Amazon, Reddit and news publishers like The New York Times were affected by a massive internet outage Tuesday." The problems surfaced around 6am New York time, when browsing users got “Error 503 Service Unavailable” and “connection failure” messages from these popular sites. The problem is not attributed to a cyberattack, as originally suspected. The CNBC article stated "The company said in a tweet that it had 'identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions' across its clusters of machines globally." It is interesting that one configuration error can have a widespread impact on the Internet.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/08/fastly-outage-internet-what-happened.html

Article: The Colonial Pipeline Hack Is a New Extreme for Ransomware

05.08.2021 -- Andy Greenberg, senior writer for WIRED, Security, wrote that "shutting down a pipeline that carries nearly half the fuel consumed on the East Coast of the United States" was a major event. He explained that the company had to shut down parts of the distribution operation as a response to the attack. According to Colonial Pipeline, they have "launched an investigation into the nature and scope of this incident, which is ongoing," Greenberg says.

https://www.wired.com/story/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack/

More can be found on this event at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) website as well as a Map of the Colonial Pipeline service area.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=28032

JBS: Cyber-attack hits world's largest meat supplier

BBC reported, "Computer networks at JBS were hacked, temporarily shutting down some operations in Australia, Canada, and the US, with thousands of workers affected." The site explained JBS believes this is a ransomware attack originating from Russia, according to their sources at the White House (USA). According to BBC, the White House was notified by JBS and the FBI is now involved. This ransomware attack is another example of these demands originating from Russia, says BBC staff, with the White House engaging directly with the Russian government.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57318965

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Colonial Pipeline Attack

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