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British Airways Points to Human Error for May Flight Outage

British Airways pointed to human error as the cause for mass flight cancellations that grounded at least 75,000 passengers last month. Continue reading

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Most Data Center Outages aren’t Caused by Tech Failure

Many critical industries invest a lot of time and resources in developing processes; the data center industry … not so much Continue reading

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Fasthosts Moves to New Backup Platform Amid Worldwide WannaCry Meltdown

U.K. web hosting provider Fasthosts has restored customer access to backups after it was disrupted by the company’s efforts to prevent infection by the WannaCry ransomware. Continue reading

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Report: Mirai Remains Threat as Hackers Repurpose Botnets

Use cases for botnets like Mirai have continued to advance and change, Akamai says. Continue reading

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French Websites Knocked Offline in Cyber-Attack on Cedexis

The websites of several major French media outlets were knocked offline Wednesday during a cyber-attack against Cedexis. Continue reading

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