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2010/06/29

Fake emails 'still posing security risks' to web users
2010/06/28

High traffic causes golfer's site to crash
2010/06/25

Franklin County site experiences downtime
2010/06/24

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2010/06/23

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Date: 03 September 2010
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INTERNET OUTAGES


June

Franklin County site experiences downtime - 2010/06/24

The Franklin County site recently experienced a period of downtime, it has been revealed, which may encourage ...

Further 'availability issues' revealed by Twitter - 2010/06/16

Twitter experienced further availability issues earlier this week, the site has revealed. ...

Preparation work 'may not prevent website downtime' - 2010/06/15

Businesses might be unable to stop their website from experiencing downtime, according to one expert, even if ...

Twitter affected by "availability issues" - 2010/06/10

The social networking site Twitter was recently affected by "availability issues", it has been ...

Large demand 'caused film festival site to crash' - 2010/06/09

A film festival website recently crashed after witnessing a high level of demand, it has been ...

Opera site crashes following 'huge ticket demand' - 2010/06/07

A huge demand for opera tickets recently caused one website to crash, it has been reported, which may ...

Large online traffic causes triathlon site to crash - 2010/06/03

The website of one sporting event recently crashed after receiving a large amount of traffic, it has been ...

May

Pakistan social networking site 'hit by downtime' - 2010/05/26

A new social networking site in Pakistan recently experienced a period of downtime, it has been reported, in ...

MHADA aiming to avoid website downtime - 2010/05/24

A housing and development authority is aiming to ensure that it does not suffer any website downtime when the ...

Heavy web traffic causes basketball site to crash - 2010/05/18

A basketball website recently crashed after experiencing heavy traffic, it has been ...

Surge in membership interest 'crashed Labour website' - 2010/05/14

The Labour Party's website recently crashed due to a high level of demand, according to one politician, in a ...

Brighton Marathon site experiences downtime - 2010/05/11

The site used to promote the Brighton Marathon has experienced a period of downtime, it has been revealed, ...

April

Aussie pop star's website hit by downtime - 2010/04/22

The site of one Australian pop star recently experienced a period of downtime after a surge in user demand, ...

Webmasters 'could benefit from site monitoring tools' - 2010/04/12

There are a number of options for people to consider if they are looking to monitor their websites more ...

MyMYM website server hit by Easter weekend crash - 2010/04/09

An eSports website was affected by a server crash during the recent Easter weekend, which might encourage ...

March

YouTube his by website downtime - 2010/03/30

Google showed textbook Twitter hit by downtime - 2010/03/18

Twitter fans were left stunned, annoyed, shocked or frustrated by the strange goings-on that saw the popular ...

Ubisoft website hacked over DRM - 2010/03/16

The Ubisoft website has been hacked following an ongoing argument about the inclusion of digital rights ...

February

Kent Big Day Out website crashes - 2010/02/26

People visiting the website to coincide with the highly-anticipated launch of Kent's Big Day Out 2010 have ...

Huge irony as BBC website faces downtime - 2010/02/24

The BBC was left a bit red in the face after an important website went down due to overloaded servers, even ...

Netflix affected by widespread outage - 2010/02/22

Anybody wanting to stream a movie on Friday night (February 19th) from website Netflix was in for a shock and ...

Wordpress hit by network problems - 2010/02/19

Blogging service Wordpress has suffered from a major bout of downtime – highlighting the importance of ...

Microsoft investigates privacy glitch - 2010/02/18

Microsoft has had to investigate a potential privacy glitch in its Windows Live system after email users were ...

'Unusual traffic' blamed for XT outage - 2010/02/17

New Zealand telecoms giant XT has claimed that the recent downtime it suffered, which prevented many of its ...

Xbox Live suffers website outage - 2010/02/16

Xbox Live is up and running again after the service suffered a major website outage. ...

Hackers bring down Australian government website - 2010/02/12

Websites belonging to the Australian government have been taken down by hackers that were protesting against ...

Focus on the Family site crashes due to high traffic - 2010/02/11

Focus on the Family's website experienced crashes due to a surge in traffic the day after a debated pro-life ...

Student newspaper taken down for two days by hacker - 2010/02/10

A cyber attack caused the website of a student newspaper to experience two days of downtime. ...

China closes down hacker training site - 2010/02/09

A website that was training hackers in how to launch cyber attacks and supply malware has been shut ...

Facebook received the most mobile web traffic in December - 2010/02/08

Just under five million UK mobile users visited Facebook's mobile site in December last year. ...

Online Shakespeare game attracts 22 million players - 2010/02/05

An online Shakespeare game has attracted 22 million players worldwide, becoming an instant ...

Hacked navy site aims to be back online soon - 2010/02/04

A navy website that was taken offline after it was hacked should be back up and running within two ...

Hacker attack takes Russian newspaper offline for days - 2010/02/03

One of Russia's highest profile newspapers has been experiencing six days of downtime due to a hacker ...

Bank of America site suffers downtime - 2010/02/02

The website for the Bank of America (BOA) has suffered downtime, with visitors experiencing a long load time ...

January

Australian educational website experiences technical difficulties - 2010/01/29

The Australian federal government's controversial website My School experienced technical difficulties on the ...

Bill Gates becoming a Tweeter sends Twitter offline - 2010/01/22

Following co-founder and chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates joining social networking site Twitter, the site ...

YouTube downtime creates a stir on Twitter - 2010/01/21

Video-sharing website YouTube experienced half an hour of downtime this week, leading to users of the website ...

Users of HMRC site experience problems - 2010/01/20

Those trying to view their tax information on the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) site have been experiencing ...

The Jewish Chronicle website is the victim of Palestinian hackers - 2010/01/19

The Jewish Chronicle site has been the victim of a hacker that posted pro-Palestinian comments on its ...

8x8 VoIP service site back to normal after outage - 2010/01/18

Two websites owned by Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider 8x8 are back up and running after ...

Overload causes fire service site to crash - 2010/01/14

The Australian government has been criticised by the state opposition following a breakdown of communication ...

Vispa hit by internet outage - 2010/01/12

Internet service provider Vispa has been hit by an internet outage, it has been reported. ...

Nearly all students and graduates have Facebook profiles, survey reveals - 2010/01/08

Almost all students or graduates have a Facebook profile, as the popularity of social networking sites ...

Snow causes havoc for travel websites - 2010/01/07

Websites for National Rail Enquiries and the Highways Agency experienced high volumes of traffic due to ...

Increase in broadband speeds means better site designs - 2010/01/06

A recent study has found that the average speed of broadband internet connection in the UK rose last ...

Cricket site suffers technical difficulties - 2010/01/04

The West Indies Cricket Board site has suffered from downtime, Carib World News reported. ...

December

Round-up of tech trends of 2009 highlights Facebook and Twitter - 2009/12/30

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter were highlighted as two trends in technology from ...

British Airways site down for several hours - 2009/12/24

The British Airways (BA) site went down for several hours causing inconvenience for its ...

Computer crash takes performing arts site offline - 2009/12/23

A computer crash at a performing arts website has resulted in downtime. ...

Microsoft product keys inaccessible due to site outage - 2009/12/22

The website where Microsoft stores its product licensing keys has been inaccessible due to an ...

Twitter traffic diverted thanks to hackers - 2009/12/21

Twitter users were re-directed to the website of protest group the Iranian Cyber Army when the site was ...

Susan Boyle audition is most-watched YouTube clip - 2009/12/18

The video clip of singing Scot Susan Boyle's audition for Britain's Got Talent was the most-watched on ...

Bushfire emergency website suffers technical problems - 2009/12/17

Thousands of people in Australia were unable to access fire updates after the Country Fire Authority (CFA) ...

Blogs help drive traffic to websites - 2009/12/16

Blogs are a powerful tool that can be used to drive traffic to an existing website. ...

Online radio services see rapid growth - 2009/12/15

Streaming music services are growing rapidly, research from audience measurement company Rajar has ...

Toys R Us misses out on trade due to technical issues - 2009/12/14

Toys R Us' UK site was down for around an hour just before midday on Friday (December 11th) following a ...

Pennsylvania unemployment site suffers problems - 2009/12/11

The Pennsylvania unemployment web site suffered from problems, causing difficulties for people to file ...

Brown wants all public services online by 2014 - 2009/12/09

Prime minister Gordon Brown has announced that he wants all public services to go online by ...

Bing search engine suffers downtime - 2009/12/08

Microsoft's search site Bing suffered a temporary outage at around 6.30PM Pacific Time on December ...

Today will be busiest online shopping day, predicts IMRG - 2009/12/07

Today will be the busiest online shopping day of the year, predicts the Interactive Media in Retail Group ...

Email marketing important for businesses - 2009/12/04

Businesses with an online presence should use email marketing to drive customers to their site, according to ...

Facebook users experience technical problems - 2009/12/03

Facebook members have been confronted with a series of technical problems, according to the ...

CAT students encounter server problems - 2009/12/02

Students in India taking their Common Admission Test (CAT) have experienced problems due to server crashes, ...

November

Kohl's site crashes on Black Friday - 2009/11/30

The website of Kohl's crashed on Black Friday last week due to a surge in online traffic, the Daily Herald ...

eBay the latest site to suffer technical problems - 2009/11/24

Online auction site eBay has apologised to users after a technical problem led to it returning limited or no ...

Problems experienced by EarthLink email - 2009/11/23

EarthLink email customers suffered significant outages over the weekend, it has been ...

Aviation technician union critical of outage response - 2009/11/20

Concerns have been raised over the US Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) response to a computer outage ...

HBOS customers suffer website downtime - 2009/11/19

Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) customers were unable to access their online accounts last weekend ...

Sidekick sales resume after server problems - 2009/11/18

T-Mobile has resumed selling its Sidekick smartphone, it has been reported. ...

Fibre-optic cable cut causes website outage - 2009/11/17

Thousands of internet users in the United States have been affected by an internet outage, according to ...

Vodafone outage affects mobile internet users - 2009/11/16

Vodafone users were unable to access the internet on their mobile handsets last week after the network ...

London Stock Exchange suffers server outage - 2009/11/10

A server outage on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) halted trading in 300 UK stocks yesterday, it has been ...

BBC experiences website difficulties - 2009/11/06

Network failures have caused the BBC website to crash and suffer outages for several hours, it has been ...

T-Mobile suffers phone and web outage - 2009/11/04

A number of T-Mobile customers across the US have been affected by a major phone and internet outage, it has ...

Business continuity planning 'vital for all firms' - 2009/11/03

All firms – including those based online - should ensure they conduct business continuity planning, it ...

YouTube the latest site to suffer an outage - 2009/11/02

YouTube users were unable to access the video sharing website for a period yesterday after it appeared to ...

October

Outage affects London students - 2009/10/28

An internet outage left 120 first-year university students without access to the web earlier this week, it ...

Google Blogger suffers web outage - 2009/10/26

Google has suffered another outage – this time to its popular blog publishing service. ...

Canadian air carrier suffers web downtime - 2009/10/23

A Canadian air carrier saw its website go down this week following the completion of an ...

Online crime map site crashes due to demand - 2009/10/21

A new website detailing crime occurrences around the UK crashed just hours after it was launched yesterday, ...

Firms 'rely on website availability' - 2009/10/20

Most firms absolutely rely on having a reliable IT web infrastructure that is always on, it has been ...

Web blogging service 'targeting reliability' - 2009/10/16

A major priority for online micro-blogging service Twitter is website reliability, it has been ...

Sweden suffers major internet outage - 2009/10/14

Sweden has suffered a major internet outage following a routine maintenance to the .se top-level domain, it ...

Twitter suffers internet outage - 2009/10/12

Millions of Twitter users were forced to down tools last week as the micro-blogging tool suffered an ...

AT&T executive defends network performance - 2009/10/09

An AT&T director has been forced to defend the performance of the firm's wireless network. ...

Web users 'most concerned about internet reliability' - 2009/10/05

A new report indicates that web consumers are more concerned about reliability than any other aspect of ...

Virgin Media suffers internet outage - 2009/10/01

Internet service provider (ISP) Virgin Media has suffered a major outage with some people kept offline for as ...

September

Businesses are unprepared for disaster recovery - 2009/09/30

A large number of businesses are not prepared for disaster recovery, it has been claimed.

According ...

Gmail outage caused by heavy usage - 2009/09/29

Google's internet outage was caused by increased traffic levels that resulted from a change to the system ...

Cox customers suffer internet outage - 2009/09/28

Customers who receive their online access through Cox Communications were hit by an internet outage last ...

Google suffers another Gmail outage - 2009/09/25

Google's web-based email service has suffered its second outage in the space of one month. ...

BlackBerry suffers internet outage - 2009/09/24

Mobile phone manufacturer Research in Motion suffered an internet outage earlier this week in North ...

Google News hit by downtime - 2009/09/23

Popular global news aggregator Google News suffered downtime yesterday at around 15:30 Eastern Daylight ...

Quarter of Welsh firms have been victims of cybercrime - 2009/09/22

A quarter of Welsh businesses have been victims of cybercrime, according to new research from the Welsh ...

Storm causes data centre outage - 2009/09/21

A storm has caused a data centre outage at an Adelaide storage facility, it has been ...

FCC considers collecting internet outage data - 2009/09/18

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering collecting more data on internet outages and ...

Execs take pay cut for website outage - 2009/09/17

IT executives at the Commonwealth Bank have taken pay cuts following a website outage which affected the ...

Companies must 'protect themselves by reducing downtime' - 2009/09/09

With businesses becoming more information orientated it is more vital than ever that they protect themselves ...

'Expensive equipment means less downtime' - 2009/09/08

Experienced IT administrators and more expensive equipment will reduce the amount of downtime businesses ...

Forecasting equipment shelf life could reduce downtime - 2009/09/07

Sometimes website downtime is unavoidable, even when website monitoring services are used to ensure spikes in ...

Four arrested following denial of service attacks in China - 2009/09/04

Chinese police have arrested four online gamers after internet communications in the country were disrupted ...

Australia's internet goes down - 2009/09/03

Australia has suffered a major internet outage with the whole country disappearing off the world wide web, it ...

Google's email service hit by outage - 2009/09/02

Internet search giant Google has apologised for an email outage that affected millions of users for almost ...

Virgin Media users hit by email outage - 2009/09/01

Users of Virgin Media's broadband service were hit by email problems last week following a cluster failure at ...

August

Thermal assessments could reduce downtime - 2009/08/28

Carrying out thermal assessments on data centres could reduce the amount of downtime facilities experience, ...

US government's scrappage scheme website crashes - 2009/08/25

The US government's scrappage scheme website crashed due to huge demand from sales firms. ...

Cheap flight deal crashes Jetstar's website - 2009/08/21

An unprecedented level of web traffic brought Jetstar's website to a grinding halt yesterday. ...

Middle East companies make disaster recovery a priority - 2009/08/18

Companies in the United Arab Emirates have made disaster recovery spending, and things such as website ...

Bresnan Communications suffers downtime - 2009/08/17

Bresnan Communications' customers in Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado lost their telephone and internet ...

iPrimus hit by second outage - 2009/08/13

Melbourne-based iPrimus suffered its second data centre outage this year at the start of this ...

Storage reliability questioned after high profile outages - 2009/08/11

The reliability of data storage facilities and managed hosting services has been brought into question ...

Denial of service attack cripples Twitter - 2009/08/07

Micro-blogging website Twitter was hit by a denial of service attack yesterday which forced the service to go ...

Disaster recovery plans boosted by virtualisation - 2009/08/04

Businesses looking to improve their disaster recovery plans and avoid downtime should consider the benefits ...

July

O2 customers hit with internet outage - 2009/07/22

Mobile phone giant O2's data network went down yesterday afternoon, affecting thousands of pay-monthly ...

Kung Fu Cinema suffers downtime - 2009/07/17

Kung Fu Cinema, which provides international news in the latest martial arts movie releases, experienced an ...

Eircom flawed by denial of service attack - 2009/07/15

Ireland's largest internet service provider, Eircom, has blamed hackers for a second period of service ...

Technical problems plague mobile phone directory - 2009/07/14

The launch of a new mobile phone directory service has been plagued by technical problems and the service has ...

Downtime is a costly affair - 2009/07/13

A new report by Symantec shows that the cost of disaster recovery for firms is very high. ...

Rackspace suffers more downtime - 2009/07/09

Data storage and managed hosting firm Rackspace has fallen victim to an electrical problem which caused the ...

Lightning strike causes multiple newspaper website outages - 2009/07/08

A lightning strike has resulted in all websites being operated by one US publishing company to suffer from an ...

Seattle data centre fire causes worldwide outage - 2009/07/07

A fire in a major Seattle data hosting centre has caused internet facilities around the globe to suffer ...

Demand for Michael Jackson memorial tickets crashes website - 2009/07/06

The website of an American stadium crashed moments after it launched a lottery for Michael Jackson memorial ...

China corruption website crashes soon after launch - 2009/07/02

Internet outages have 'severe effect' on businesses - 2009/07/01

Nearly all small businesses said an hour-long internet outage would have some impact on their company, it has ...

June

High internet traffic hits Australia's NetBank services - 2009/06/30

An unexpected spike in internet traffic has hit the Australian Commonwealth Bank's online platform, which ...

Customers 'struggle' to access HSBC online banking - 2009/06/29

Banking giant HSBC is reportedly suffering disruption to its online banking services today (June 29th), after ...

Michael Jackson's death causes 'internet meltdown' - 2009/06/26

The internet suffered a widespread slowdown as the news of the death of Michael Jackson spread around the ...

Google outage hits China - 2009/06/25

Internet users in China have been left unable to access search engine Google amid a row over what citizens ...

Online striptease causes website crash - 2009/06/24

Barclays outage 'caused by disc array' - 2009/06/22

A computer fault left thousands of Barclays customers unable to access their bank accounts for three hours ...

Communications outage creates 'ghost town' - 2009/06/19

Many users in South Oregon were left with "insufferably slow" internet connections yesterday ...

Powertel failure hits Australia - 2009/06/18

Powertel's voice and data services blacked out across parts of New South Wales and Queensland today, ...

Brit's software being used to crash Iranian websites - 2009/06/17

A British web designer has discovered his software is being used by Iranians angered by the recent election ...

Demand for World Cup qualifiers causes website crash - 2009/06/16

Eager football fans were so keen to get their hands on tickets for the upcoming World Cup Qualifier matche ...

Support for acquitted man crashes website - 2009/06/15

A flood of traffic caused the website set up in support of a New Zealand man acquitted of murder has caused ...

BBC News website suffers outage - 2009/06/12

The BBC News website suffered a 20-minute outage on Wednesday during which it offered only limited ...

Sephora 'troubled by downtime' - 2009/06/11

The e-commerce arm of beauty retailer Sephora has suffered a series of outages in recent months, according to ...

Email outage affects Fasthosts customers - 2009/06/10

Thousands of Fasthosts customers were left without email access over the weekend as they were unable to ...

Outage affects FairPoint customers - 2009/06/09

Around 12,000 customers of FairPoint in Vermont lost their internet connection on Monday (June 8th), ...

Yellowstone outage caused by power cut - 2009/06/08

An outage that left Yellowstone National Park in the US without internet and phone services last week was due ...

Oasis star's fashion website crashes - 2009/06/05

The website for Oasis star Liam Gallagher's fashion range crashed seconds after it was launched when it was ...

Burgundy recovers from online outage - 2009/06/04

Multilateral trading facility Burgundy has managed to get it systems back online following an outage which ...

Twitter looking into China outage - 2009/06/03

Social networking website Twitter is looking into reports of a website outage in China. ...

May

Unplanned outage causes 'significant cost' - 2009/05/29

Unplanned system downtime has become "unacceptable" in today's always-on, multi-channel business ...

Cox restores service after outage - 2009/05/28

Cox Communications has reportedly now restored service to its cable and internet customers in Phoenix and ...

Website monitoring services 'could help travel sites' - 2009/05/27

Downtime is a "real risk" to business - 2009/05/26

Internet downtime caused by outages is a "real risk to business", according to technology writer ...

Web outages are "maddening" - 2009/05/22

An outage with a web-based service can be the most "maddening" form of computer malfunction, ...

Kiwibank outage 'lasted 24 hours' - 2009/05/21

New Zealand's Kiwibank was hit by an outage on Wednesday, leaving many customers unable to access their ...

A hits surge 'can cause unprepared servers to crash' - 2009/05/20

Server uptime is one of the most important factors to take into consideration when choosing a website hosting ...

Indian election website crashes - 2009/05/19

The website of the Indian Election Commission crashed under heavy internet traffic on the day the Lok Sabha ...

Google News hit by another outage - 2009/05/18

Google was hit by another internet outage on Monday, which affected its news service, according to ...

Google 'traffic jam' affects millions - 2009/05/15

Millions of internet users were affected by a slowdown in Google's service yesterday afternoon after the web ...

Telstra Foxtel services crash - 2009/05/14

Services provided by Telstra Internet, including Foxtel have suffered an outage, according to ...

Internet downtime 'a headache for IT workers' - 2009/05/12

Day-to-day problems such as internet downtime and being unable to backup files are the biggest technical ...

Time Warner customers without service on Wednesday - 2009/05/11

Time Warner customers around the US were left without internet or digital telephone services on Wednesday, it ...

Google Mail faces fresh technical hiccups - 2009/05/08

Google Mail suffered a short outage this morning leaving users unable to access their email accounts for ...

Demand for pet-only airline crashes website - 2009/05/07

Demand for a new airline that only carries pets has been so great that it caused the website to crash shortly ...

Enquiry launched into Swedish internet outage - 2009/05/06

The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) is to launch an enquiry after hundreds of thousands of customers ...

A second Telstra outage hits customers - 2009/05/05

Customers in the Northern Territory of Australia were hit by another internet outage today as Telstra ...

High demand will make internet 'unreliable toy' - 2009/05/01

As more and more people gain access to the internet, the increased demand will cause cyberspace to fill-up, ...

April

Demand for Liza Minnelli tickets causes website crash - 2009/04/30

A flood of Liza Minnelli fans desperate to get hold of tickets for her upcoming concert caused the Sydney ...

Time Warner outage hits 400,000 - 2009/04/29

Time Warner Cable was hit by an outage on Sunday that left 400,000 subscribers without internet and phone ...

London marathon website buckles under high demand - 2009/04/28

Runners keen to register their interest in next year's London marathon were unable to log on to the website ...

Demand for tickets causes box office website crash - 2009/04/27

Demand for tickets to see the Kaiser Chiefs caused the website of Isle of Man venue Villa Marina to crash on ...

Airline websites 'crash more than average' - 2009/04/24

Airline websites crash on average more frequently than other sites, according to an internet monitoring ...

EarthLink crashes on Earth Day - 2009/04/23

Internet service provider EarthLink suffered a major outage yesterday, which was world Earth ...

T-Mobile Germany's website 'overloaded' - 2009/04/22

T-Mobile Germany's website was reportedly overloaded yesterday following a network crash. ...

Some Time Warner users 'still without internet' - 2009/04/21

Numerous Time Warner customers in Millcreek, Pennsylvania were still without internet this morning, according ...

Gmail outage affects some users - 2009/04/17

Google's email service Gmail went down for a "small subset" of users it was reported ...

Vandals caused Californian internet outage - 2009/04/14

Vandals caused a massive phone and internet outage in the San Jose on Thursday, AT&T officials have ...

Ten hour 'network meltdown' in Australia - 2009/04/07

Parts of Australia were completely cut-off from the rest of the country for ten hours early this morning, ...

DDoS attack caused Register service disruption - 2009/04/06

Website host Register.com was last week the target of a sustained attack that disrupted its service to ...

March

New Gmail account problems - 2009/03/10

Users of Gmail have been faced with new difficulties accessing their inboxes this week. ...

February

Gmail outage named as number one - 2009/02/27

Google's Gmail crash from earlier in the week has been named as the number one worst web outage. ...

Gmail hit by outage - 2009/02/24

Users of Gmail were not able to access their email accounts for several hours this morning (Tuesday, February ...

Website load testing recommended by expert - 2009/02/05

Online retailers would do well to ensure that their websites can cope with sudden traffic spikes, according ...

January

Salesforce.com hit by outage - 2009/01/08

The importance of

December

Dr Pepper could face legal action over website outage - 2008/12/09

Drinks brand Dr Pepper saw its website go down during a promotional activity - and may face legal action as a ...

Warning over video impact on web performance - 2008/12/04

Online retailers may want to consider investing in Website outages on 'Cyber Monday' - 2008/12/02

A number of leading retailers in the USA were hit by website outages yesterday (December 1st), which is one ...

November

Businesses affected by website outage - 2008/11/28

Stronger data loss rules proposed - 2008/11/25

Organisations which lose data could be hit by tougher rules proposed by the justice secretary yesterday ...

Firms 'underestimating' web-based threat - 2008/11/20

Firms are underestimating the dangers of web-based threats, despite a quarter of them having experienced one ...

October

Canadian airline suffers website outage - 2008/10/22

Canadian national air carrier Air Canada suffered an outage in its reservation network on Monday, it has ...

Cahoot suffers major downtime following powercut - 2008/10/21

Cahoot, the online banking arm of Santander-owned Abbey, suffered a major server outage last week which left ...

September

Server outage exposes flaws in 'cloud computing' - 2008/09/25

Flaws have been exposed in one of the newest ways for online business to store and access data, it has ...

Consumers demand that websites perform - 2008/09/24

Consumers faced with poorly-performing websites are happy to switch to a competitor, new research has ...

Half of firms to freeze IT budgets in 2009 - 2008/09/22

50 per cent of firms will maintain levels of IT spending in 2009, new research has indicated. ...

Myanmar's conflict with dissidents reaches cyberspace - 2008/09/19

The ruling military junta in Myanmar has made a number of damaging attacks on dissident websites, according ...

LSE still unclear on system outage - 2008/09/16

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) remains unclear about what exactly caused the outage that shut the system ...

BT break-in leads to internet outage - 2008/09/12

A break-in at one of BT's central London telephone exchanges caused a massive loss of broadband connectivity ...

Internet outage leads to two-day email loss - 2008/09/11

Failures in data-storage disks resulted in a two-day email loss for subscribers to regional internet service ...

Internet downtime minimal post-Gustav - 2008/09/05

The cost of internet downtime due to Hurricane Gustav has thankfully been mild compared to Katrina which hit ...

August

Gmail reliability questioned - 2008/08/22

Experts are beginning to doubt whether Google's email service Gmail is reliable enough to meet their ...

The corporate cost of internet downtime - 2008/08/21

Well-known high street retailers who have lost significant online sales revenue are also at risk of losing ...

Website monitoring services to the rescue! - 2008/08/07

With the mushrooming use of the internet showing no sign of relenting worldwide, organisations' websites ...

Apple concedes mistakes after outage - 2008/08/06

The launch of Apple's MobileMe should not have coincided with that of the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 Software, ...

July

Amazon offers credit following outage - 2008/07/22

Amazon Web Services customers affected by the recent seven-hour outage of its Simple Storage Service (S3) are ...

Times Online a market leader in downtime - 2008/07/18

The results of a new survey measuring the uptime of the world's top news sites were revealed ...

11th hour outage for lastminute.com - 2008/07/17

During what is traditionally a very busy week for lastminute.com, business was interrupted for 11 hours when ...

Cable and Wireless Watford site burgled - 2008/07/11

Sainsbury's and Ordnance Survey websites went dark at around 01:00 (GMT) today (Friday, July 11th) as a ...

Sainsbury's web site down twice in a month - 2008/07/07

High street giant, Sainsbury's has experienced more problems with its online operation as more than an hour ...

June

Facebook resolves website outage - 2008/06/30

Facebook has announced it has resolved a glitch which left millions of its users unable to access the address ...

BT accepts outage responsibility - 2008/06/24

BT has accepted responsibility for an internet outage in the Shetland Islands which deprived residents of ...

Outage hits Google App Engine - 2008/06/20

Attention was drawn to the disadvantages of cloud-computing services when Google's App Engine suffered an ...

Firefox down due to increased traffic - 2008/06/18

The newly released version of Firefox has been plagued with access problems. ...

LINX suffers second outage - 2008/06/05

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) suffered a second outage last week, with a line card problem being blamed ...

Mac outage could be due to re-branding - 2008/06/04

An outage experienced on Apple's .Mac mail could have been due to the expected re-branding of the email ...

Website outage caused by 'cracker attacks' - 2008/06/02

Attacks which caused an outage experienced on the homepage of US internet service provider (ISP) Comcast did ...

May

Website glitch costs Paypal - 2008/05/28

Online payment system Paypal has been left reeling after being hit by a website outage lasting near-on two ...

Cut optic line causes US outage - 2008/05/27

An internet outage suffered across the Midwest region of the United States last week was caused by ...

US firms gather at STO conference - 2008/05/20

American companies will listen to experts' views on the future of the shutdowns, turnarounds and outages ...

US security agency stumped by internet outage - 2008/05/16

The website of the US National Security Agency (NSA) is currently feeling the effects of an internet outage, ...

Canadians given tax extension after website overload - 2008/05/15

An overload on the Canada Revenue Agency's website has led to taxpayers being given an extension to the ...

US ISP prepares for hurricane season - 2008/05/09

A major US internet service provider has lifted the lid on its plans to cope with the Atlantic hurricane ...

April

Blogging sites hit in network outage - 2008/04/30

Users of numerous blog sites were left out in the cold last week as the Sports Blog Nation network ...




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