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Digitel, the Venezuelan telecommunications company, suffered access failures to some of its services and platforms, because its system received security threats that forced it to temporarily block its servers to protect itself. Digitel's customers have not had any problems with their…
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Apple will shut down the “My Photos” servers

Apple announced that it will shut down its My Photo Stream service on July 26, indicating that the upload of new photos to the application will stop just a month before, on June 26. My Photo Stream is an application that allows users of…

Uber investigates security breach

Uber is investigating a cybersecurity problem that has affected the company's internal systems and that would have its origin in a social engineering attack that would have given access to the Slack account of one of the employees. This…

Hacker intervenes FBI servers

FBI servers were intervened by a hacker, who sent more than 100,000 emails warning of an apparent cyber attack as reported by Spamhaus Project, an international company that aims to provide support to detect Internet threats to various…

Server failure causes several web portals to crash

An error in the distribution network (CDN) of the Fastly server caused the fall of many web pages around the world this Tuesday, including media such as the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, AS or La Sexta, and networks social networks…

Twitter will take down Periscope in 2021

Twitter announced that it will shut down its independent live broadcast application Periscope in March of next year, due to its maintenance no longer being sustainable. The company acquired Periscope in 2015, even before it was launched on…

Redcar Council suffered a ransomware attack

The Redcar and Cleveland Council confirmed they were victim of a cyber attack after a ransomware entered the server network by hijacking the private tax information of its citizens. The same incident happened three weeks ago, where…