"Puerto Rico was plunged into darkness early Tuesday morning by a nearly island-wide blackout.
The cause of the blackout is under investigation, but preliminary findings pointed to a fault in an underground line, according to Luma Energy, the island's main power distributor. Fully restoring service could take between 24-48 hours, the company said on X."
A number of fiber optic networks have been “sabotaged” across France — just days after arson attacks paralyzed high-speed train services during the Olympics opening ceremony, according to reports.
Cables for several telecom operators were purposely cut in six areas of France earlier Monday, police told the French outlet Agence France Presse.
And this dumb fuck now foreshadowing that it's going to disrupt the supply chain, because that's what we need to a supply chain which is already just hanging on by a thread...another supply chain disruption.
So that's what this is really about, not only foreshadowing the coming take down of the internet (because it's coming folks) but also being able to use it as an excuse for why our supermarket shelves are even emptier now. We already have an egg shortage here and when you can get them they've put purchasing limits on them (2 cartons per person).
"The severity of the problem boils down to how long it lasts," said Dan Coatsworth, investment analyst at AJ Bell, adding, "A few hours' disruption is unhelpful but not a catastrophe. Prolonged disruption is another matter, potentially causing damage to companies and economies."
Alan Woodward, professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, told Bloomberg this global outage is "unprecedented" and warned "the economic impact will be huge."
We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this. I encourage everyone to remain vigilant and ensure that you’re engaging with official CrowdStrike representatives. Our blog and technical support will continue to be the official channels for the latest updates.
"There is a fix for this, the trouble is getting the fix onto the computers probably means IT teams are going to have to literally touch every keyboard."
How the fuck does a software update cause a worldwide global outage??
"Aware of issue affecting Windows devices due to update from third-party software platform. We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming," Microsoft spokesperson on global outage.
This made news here yesterday too even though the hack happened in April.
Hackers stole personal data including the health information of nearly 13 million Australians earlier this year, making it one of the nation’s biggest cyber attacks.
Electronic prescriptions provider MediSecure on Thursday revealed 12.9 million customers had their data stolen, an unknown amount of which has been uploaded to the dark web.
Which is why I laugh at how those who are "awake" are organizing their resistance to the system on social media, have the idiots thought about what happens when the internet and our comms get taken down. 🤡s
Another "glitch" creates chaos at Hong Kong airport:
Board members of Hong Kong's Airport Authority have pledged to follow up on an hours-long breakdown of the flight information display system and poor contingency plans that left passengers scrambling to find their boarding gates, with the provision of real-time data only fully restored on Monday morning.
Lawmakers and experts also expressed concerns about the computer malfunction - the second major incident to hit the airport in a week after a runway shutdown sparked chaos last Monday - and questioned why the display backup system failed.
Seems like more beta testing for the biggy coming...🎬
Passengers have been told to stay away from Manchester Airport after a "major" power cut disrupted a significant number of flights.
The warning for those travelling through Terminals 1 and 2 comes after the outage hit in the early hours, affecting baggage and security systems.
Large queues have formed inside the airport, which is the UK's largest outside London, and more than 10 outbound flights have been cancelled and inbound flights diverted, with more disruption expected through the day,
Passengers flying via Terminal 3 should come to the airport as normal, but could face delays, an airport spokesman said.
The disruption comes at the start of the summer holiday season at the UK's third-busiest airport, which has apologised to passengers.
An airport source said the power cut "literally knocked everything off".
It also affected other businesses in the surrounding area, including major logistics firms nearby. affecting the supply chain too...
The Ticketmaster breach was first revealed by hackers who posted an advert for the data on Wednesday evening. Ticketmaster refused to confirm it to reporters or customers and instead notified shareholders late on Friday.
Researchers are also warning that it’s part of a larger ongoing hack involving a cloud service provider called Snowflake which is used by many large firms to store data in the cloud. Snowflake notified customers that it has been breached but would not say which firms are impacted. On Friday Santander confirmed it had data from an estimated 30m customers stolen which was being sold by the same hacking group as the Ticketmaster hackers. It’s thought these hacks are all linked and many others could become public.
A group of hackers say they have stolen the personal details of 560 million Ticketmaster customers.
ShinyHunters, the group claiming responsibility, says the stolen data includes names, addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card details from Ticketmaster users worldwide.
B.C. government networks hit by 'sophisticated cybersecurity incidents'
In other incidents in recent weeks, hackers targeting B.C. libraries tried to extort payment not to release information about users, while retailer London Drugs was forced to shut its stores for more than a week to deal with a cybersecurity breach.
The government source said staff were told there was no indication that the government incident was related to either the library hack or the London Drugs shutdown, but the matter was still under investigation.
But keeping our knowledge exclusively online is extremely dangerous. What if the power goes out globally as a result of some type of freak event, attack or natural disaster? We’d lose everything and have to start from scratch in our scientific understanding of everything … again.
Why are they suddenly all reporting on this now, this happened a week ago and at the time there was only a few small news outlets covering it, now they're suddenly all covering it and it's on the front page of Google News.
Yeh he's probably my first go to financial channel, not that I agree with everything he says, he tends to blame millennials and genZers for being so negative about their financial future and just wants them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps....and he tends to have a bit of "America can never fall" attitude but he seems pretty legit and has released some really good research into this AI Psyops, not that he says it's a Psyops but the evidence he is presenting just confirms what we know...it's all a load of shit and it's basically what they're using to prop up the stock markets right now and kick that can down the road just a little longer.
"If this is about nation-states attacking each other, and especially civilian targets, then we are in a very new world order. And it's a breakdown of world order, which I think we have not seen before.""The world needs new international rules to protect the public from nation-state threats in cyberspace. In short, the world needs a Digital Geneva Convention."
Apart from detroying knowledge as these deposit libraries are digitising all their holdings, this also feels like a beta test. A dry run for a banking institution or something.
The company will be replacing two aging structures that support a transmission line on Jan. 6, National Grid said in a press release last week. The scheduled power outage will take place from around 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
“We understand the inconvenience of an outage of this length at this time of year,” says National Grid Regional Director Ken Kujawa. “The need to address these structures is urgent and came to light in recent weeks during work related to extensive electric system upgrades our crews are conducting in the area."..."
Puerto Rico goes completely dark after another island-wide power outage
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/puerto-rico-goes-completely-dark-another-island-wide-power-outage-rcna201643
Government-forced internet disruptions hit record high
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/24/global-internet-blackouts
Swedish Police Investigate New Baltic Sea Cable Damage
Subsea fibre optic cable deliberately cut for the 2nd time between N.S. and N.L. | CBC News
Barclays customers unable to buy essentials after major IT outage
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/26/damage-to-a-cable-between-sweden-and-latvia-von-der-leyen-infrastructure-safety-a-priority
The video I uploaded in February last year warning about this...
Another type of blackout, social media blackout...
"Puerto Rico was plunged into darkness early Tuesday morning by a nearly island-wide blackout.
The cause of the blackout is under investigation, but preliminary findings pointed to a fault in an underground line, according to Luma Energy, the island's main power distributor. Fully restoring service could take between 24-48 hours, the company said on X."
New undersea cable sabotage fears as key power link between Finland and Estonia is cut on Christmas Day | Daily Mail Online
Millions in Cuba remain in dark after nationwide blackout
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cubas-electric-grid-collapses-after-power-plant-failure-2024-12-04/
2024 Homeland Security Critical Infrastructure Conference | Atlanta Chapter
A number of fiber optic networks have been “sabotaged” across France — just days after arson attacks paralyzed high-speed train services during the Olympics opening ceremony, according to reports.
Cables for several telecom operators were purposely cut in six areas of France earlier Monday, police told the French outlet Agence France Presse.
And this dumb fuck now foreshadowing that it's going to disrupt the supply chain, because that's what we need to a supply chain which is already just hanging on by a thread...another supply chain disruption.
So that's what this is really about, not only foreshadowing the coming take down of the internet (because it's coming folks) but also being able to use it as an excuse for why our supermarket shelves are even emptier now. We already have an egg shortage here and when you can get them they've put purchasing limits on them (2 cartons per person).
"The severity of the problem boils down to how long it lasts," said Dan Coatsworth, investment analyst at AJ Bell, adding, "A few hours' disruption is unhelpful but not a catastrophe. Prolonged disruption is another matter, potentially causing damage to companies and economies."
Alan Woodward, professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, told Bloomberg this global outage is "unprecedented" and warned "the economic impact will be huge."
We know that adversaries and bad actors will try to exploit events like this. I encourage everyone to remain vigilant and ensure that you’re engaging with official CrowdStrike representatives. Our blog and technical support will continue to be the official channels for the latest updates.
George Kurtz (born May 5, 1965) is the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike
He graduated from Seton Hall University with a degree in accounting.
Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Roman Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. ....Every. Fucking. Time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kurtz
Largest IT outage in history...
"There is a fix for this, the trouble is getting the fix onto the computers probably means IT teams are going to have to literally touch every keyboard."
How the fuck does a software update cause a worldwide global outage??
"Aware of issue affecting Windows devices due to update from third-party software platform. We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming," Microsoft spokesperson on global outage.
Even the stock exchange is down....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13586803/NAB-banking-app-internet-banking-need-know.html
Another "glitch" creates chaos at Hong Kong airport:
Board members of Hong Kong's Airport Authority have pledged to follow up on an hours-long breakdown of the flight information display system and poor contingency plans that left passengers scrambling to find their boarding gates, with the provision of real-time data only fully restored on Monday morning.
Lawmakers and experts also expressed concerns about the computer malfunction - the second major incident to hit the airport in a week after a runway shutdown sparked chaos last Monday - and questioned why the display backup system failed.
Seems like more beta testing for the biggy coming...🎬
Passengers have been told to stay away from Manchester Airport after a "major" power cut disrupted a significant number of flights.
The warning for those travelling through Terminals 1 and 2 comes after the outage hit in the early hours, affecting baggage and security systems.
Large queues have formed inside the airport, which is the UK's largest outside London, and more than 10 outbound flights have been cancelled and inbound flights diverted, with more disruption expected through the day,
Passengers flying via Terminal 3 should come to the airport as normal, but could face delays, an airport spokesman said.
The disruption comes at the start of the summer holiday season at the UK's third-busiest airport, which has apologised to passengers.
An airport source said the power cut "literally knocked everything off".
It also affected other businesses in the surrounding area, including major logistics firms nearby. affecting the supply chain too...
QILIN 8+9+3+9+5 = 34
A cyber attack has forced three major hospitals to cancel operations and divert emergency patients elsewhere.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital have been forced to cancel operations.
Royal Brompton and Harefield have had to axe transplant surgeries.
The cyberattack is affecting pathology labs, which includes bloods transfusions.
Good old Ticketbastard....🤪
SNOWFLAKE 1+5+6+5+6+3+1+2+5 = 34
The Ticketmaster breach was first revealed by hackers who posted an advert for the data on Wednesday evening. Ticketmaster refused to confirm it to reporters or customers and instead notified shareholders late on Friday.
Researchers are also warning that it’s part of a larger ongoing hack involving a cloud service provider called Snowflake which is used by many large firms to store data in the cloud. Snowflake notified customers that it has been breached but would not say which firms are impacted. On Friday Santander confirmed it had data from an estimated 30m customers stolen which was being sold by the same hacking group as the Ticketmaster hackers. It’s thought these hacks are all linked and many others could become public.
A group of hackers say they have stolen the personal details of 560 million Ticketmaster customers.
ShinyHunters, the group claiming responsibility, says the stolen data includes names, addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card details from Ticketmaster users worldwide.
SANTANDER 1+1+5+2+1+5+4+5+9 = 33
Hackers are attempting to sell what they say is confidential information belonging to millions of Santander staff and customers.
They belong to the same gang which this week claimed to have hacked Ticketmaster.
The bank - which employs 200,000 people worldwide, including around 20,000 in the UK - has confirmed data has been stolen.
B.C. government networks hit by 'sophisticated cybersecurity incidents'
In other incidents in recent weeks, hackers targeting B.C. libraries tried to extort payment not to release information about users, while retailer London Drugs was forced to shut its stores for more than a week to deal with a cybersecurity breach.
The government source said staff were told there was no indication that the government incident was related to either the library hack or the London Drugs shutdown, but the matter was still under investigation.
B.C. government networks hit by 'sophisticated cybersecurity incidents': Eby (msn.com)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/us/911-lines-down-in-multiple-cities-officials-say/index.html
Millions of Americans caught up in Chinese hacking plot
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68659095.amp
Again...
McDonald's apologizes for global system outage that shut down some stores for hours (msn.com)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13159723/Metas-Facebook-Instagram-Worldwide-outage.html
No fucking loss...
But keeping our knowledge exclusively online is extremely dangerous. What if the power goes out globally as a result of some type of freak event, attack or natural disaster? We’d lose everything and have to start from scratch in our scientific understanding of everything … again.
Why are they suddenly all reporting on this now, this happened a week ago and at the time there was only a few small news outlets covering it, now they're suddenly all covering it and it's on the front page of Google News.
...just a ”glitch”...
Coinbase users see $0 balance after crypto-trading app suffers glitch (cnbc.com)
My latest upload:
https://www.wionews.com/science/massive-solar-flare-causes-radio-blackouts-across-australia-and-southeast-asia-687637
"If this is about nation-states attacking each other, and especially civilian targets, then we are in a very new world order. And it's a breakdown of world order, which I think we have not seen before." "The world needs new international rules to protect the public from nation-state threats in cyberspace. In short, the world needs a Digital Geneva Convention."
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella worries hackers could cause a 'breakdown of world order' (msn.com)
Apart from detroying knowledge as these deposit libraries are digitising all their holdings, this also feels like a beta test. A dry run for a banking institution or something.
https://www.ft.com/content/4be5d468-0cc3-4881-a5fb-b5d0163de93e
Just as a cold wave starts to move across the country...
"Essential upgrades to National Grid's system will leave over 7,000 customers in the Rochester area without power Saturday.
The company will be replacing two aging structures that support a transmission line on Jan. 6, National Grid said in a press release last week. The scheduled power outage will take place from around 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
“We understand the inconvenience of an outage of this length at this time of year,” says National Grid Regional Director Ken Kujawa. “The need to address these structures is urgent and came to light in recent weeks during work related to extensive electric system upgrades our crews are conducting in the area."..."