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I think most of us probably noticed Yahoo.com being down today. I didn't believe it until I did three seperate traceroutes from three different hosts with Internet backbone connections. Johnathan Dube writes ... "Yahoo! came under attack today and . . . . I think most of us probably noticed Yahoo.com being down today. I didn't believe it until I did three seperate traceroutes from three different hosts with Internet backbone connections. Johnathan Dube writes ... "Yahoo! came under attack today and crashed for about three hours, shutting out millions of Web users trying to reach one of the largest and most popular sites on the Internet" The link for this article located at ABCNews.com is no longer available. . I think most of us probably noticed Yahoo.com being down today. I didn't believe it until I did thre. think, probably, noticed, yahoo, being, today, didn't, believe, until. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to a total data center outage. Amazon had its only European data center located there.. My initial thoughts are related to disaster recovery and Amazon services. In their last significant outage in April, they had a network configuration change that led to an outage of services in the eastern United States. This outage begs other questions. Why isn't Amazon deploying a redundant power source, like a diesel powered backup? Maybe they did, but the fire blew out a portion of that utility service. So a more serious disaster emerged from an initial transformer explosion. The link for this article located at Computer World is no longer available. . Observations on Google's July disruption reveal weaknesses in backup systems and network resilience within data centers.. Disaster Recovery Strategies, Cloud Outage Analysis, Redundant Power Solutions. . Alex
This is a short overview of what happened on Friday August 28 2009 to the apache.org services. A more detailed post will come at a later time after we complete the audit of all machines involved. On August 27th, starting at about 18:00 UTC an account used for automated backups for the ApacheCon website hosted on a 3rd party hosting provider was used to upload files to minotaur.apache.org. The account was accessed using SSH key authentication from this host.. To the best of our knowledge at this time, no end users were affected by this incident, and the attackers were not able to escalate their privileges on any machines. While we have no evidence that downloads were affected, users are always advised to check digital signatures where provided. minotaur.apache.org runs FreeBSD 7-STABLE and is more widely known as people.apache.org. Minotaur serves as the seed host for most apache.org websites, in addition to providing shell accounts for all Apache committers. The link for this article located at Apache Foundation is no longer available. . To the best of our knowledge at this time, no end users were affected by this incident, and the atta. short, overview, happened, friday, august, apache, services. . Anthony Pell
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