internet outage

A widespread disruption caused severe outages for some of the world’s biggest websites on Thursday afternoon – and it was all caused by a software update gone horribly wrong. DownDetector.com showed a sharp and simultaneous spike in outage reports for prominent travel, retail, financial and gaming websites globally. In most cases, the spike in outage reports appeared to start...

The sprawling 800,000-square-foot facility functions as the main broadcasting center, where broadcasters from around the world can set up shop. The IBC provides broadcasters video and audio feeds of every channel.

Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizers confirmed on Sunday that the Games had come under a cyber attack during Friday’s opening ceremony. The internet and television services were affected by the hack. The organizers wouldn’t reveal the source of the attack, which they said, did not affect critical parts of their operations, Reuters reported. “Maintaining secure operations is our purpose,” said International...

Pyeongchang Olympic organizers are investigating a possible attack on their internet and Wi-Fi systems that took place about 45 minutes before the opening ceremony. Organizing committee spokeswoman Nancy Park said the defense ministry and a cybersecurity team were investigating the outage that occurred Friday night. “It didn’t affect the opening ceremony,” Park said. “It went as planned. We just had...

Spectrum customers in Brooklyn and Queens are being impacted by a network outage caused by vandals, according to the company.

Spectrum customers in Brooklyn are without Internet after vandals tampered with the network, according to the company.

Cable company Spectrum says an employee has been arrested in the fiber optic cable vandalism that wiped out TV, internet and phone service for tens of thousands of customers in Queens last month.

Charges have been dropped against the Spectrum cable employee initially suspected of cutting the fiber optic cable that wiped out TV, internet and phone service to 60,000 customers in Queens last month.

An enormous (and that’s an understatement) tree somehow fell on a Bronx neighborhood street Tuesday, stretching from one yard all the way across the roadway and enveloping at least three homes in its sprawling branches.

Spectrum customers in Queens begged for help all the way up to Mayor de Blasio and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman after they lost TV, internet and phone services for the second time in two weeks Tuesday, the result of vandals again damaging a fiber optic cable, according to the cable company.

About 60,000 Spectrum customers in Queens were without cable or internet on Monday after vandals cut a fiber optic cable serving four major hubs, according to the cable company and the borough’s president.

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