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Not Again: FCC to Investigate Cause of Verizon Outage
Connected Economy // September 30, 2024

More than 100,000 Verizon users lost access to mobile services Monday (Sept. 30). The wireless carrier said it was aware of the issue, per a report by NBC News, marking the latest in a series of mass technical outages this year. “We’re aware of a Verizon outage impacting customers...

Coinbase Payments Outage Compounds Crypto Market’s Confidence Challenge
Cryptocurrency // October 03, 2022

The Coinbase exchange suffered what it called a “major outage” that left customers unable to handle payments and withdrawals with U.S. bank accounts on Sunday (Oct. 2). It’s worth noting mostly because of the history that crypto exchanges, particularly Coinbase, have with going down at...

Deep Dive: Legacy Banks And The Infrastructure Stumbling Blocks Keeping Them From The Cloud
Cloud Banking // June 02, 2020

An expanding number of challenger banks have eschewed the industry’s traditionally slow and steady innovation approach. These banks are offering digital or mobile-only platforms powered by cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), biometrics and machine learning (ML) to fulfill users’ needs with greater speed and...

New Orleans City Services Hit With Cyberattacks
Security & Fraud // December 13, 2019

Louisiana’s biggest city, New Orleans, home to one of the country’s biggest ports, has been hit with a series of cyberattacks that have been spreading across the state, according to a report by CNBC. The emergency Twitter account for New Orleans, “NOLA Ready,” sent out...

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Construction Accident Triggers $106 Million Italian Payments Outage

December 01, 2024
Italy has reportedly restored an outage to its payment services that hindered Black Friday sales. The disruption on Nov. 28 and 29 had been restored by Saturday (Nov. 30), Bloomberg News reported, citing a statement from the Bank of Italy. A separate report by Reuters said the outage was triggered when construction on gas roadworks […]

Not Again: FCC to Investigate Cause of Verizon Outage

September 30, 2024
More than 100,000 Verizon users lost access to mobile services Monday (Sept. 30). The wireless carrier said it was aware of the issue, per a report by NBC News, marking the latest in a...

New Orleans City Services Hit With Cyberattacks

December 13, 2019
Louisiana’s biggest city, New Orleans, home to one of the country’s biggest ports, has been hit with a series of cyberattacks that have been spreading across the state, according to...