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Cloudflare Outage Takes Popular Internet Sites and Services Offline

June 21, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

A Cloudflare outage has taken most of the internet and online services offline. “A critical P0 incident was declared at approximately 06:34 AM UTC. Connectivity in Cloudflare’s network has been …

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US DOJ Claims Russian Botnet Dismantled

June 17, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

The United States Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had dismantled the infrastructure of a Russian group of hacked internet-connected devices that have hacked millions of computers and …

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Brazilian Stripper Interrupts Peru Corruption Hearing

June 16, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

A virtual public hearing of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo’s corruption inquiry was interrupted by a video of a dancing Brazilian stripper. Prosecutor Samuel Rojas was detailing the reasons why Castillo …

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Russia Reportedly Seizes More Than $20m From Google as Turnover

May 27, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

Bailiffs in Russia have reportedly confiscated more than 7.7 billion rubles ($123.2 million) from Alphabet’s Google, which had been compelled to pay a fine based on its turnover. According to …

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Sex Harassment Allegations and Various Scandals Cost Musk $10 Billion in Personal Wealth

May 24, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

Tesla boss Elon Musk’s wealth fell from $212 billion on May 15th to $201 billion on May 22nd amid the sexual harassment accusations hurled against him. In a report by …

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Conti Hacker Gang Threatens to Overthrow Costa Rican Government

May 17, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

Conti, a cybercriminal organization, sent a threatening message to Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves’ government. In a report by local media Tico Times, it said that Conti demanded $20 million …

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Russia Announces More Fines Against Google

March 30, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) announced on Tuesday (March 29) its plans to draw up administrative protocols against Google for not deleting …

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Uzbekistan Political Party Proposes Complete Ban On TikTok

February 2, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

The Uzbekistan political party on Wednesday called for a complete ban of Chinese video-sharing app TikTok, accusing it of wreaking more harm to society than good. The Adolat Social Democratic …

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Alexa Outage Causes Chaos in the EU

January 21, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

An Amazon Alexa outage in the EU and UK has caused problems for several households who were relied on its smart home integration. UK users reported the outage at around …

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Fastly CDN Outage Caused By Customer Misconfiguration and Software Bug

June 8, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

Popular websites and apps around the world were knocked offline because of an widespread internet outage with the Fastly content delivery network (CDN). Users were unable to access the sites …

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