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BGP Routing Table Size Limit Blamed for Tuesday’s Website Outages

Many websites, including Data Center Knowledge and the WHIR, responded sporadically from certain locations Tuesday, but the outages did not result from loss of power at a hosting company’s or a cloud provider’s data center, a flood or a network cable severed by a squirrel. The problem was attributed to a structural problem in the way the Internet is built. Continue reading

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ENISA Reports 79 Major Telecom Outages in 2012

August 20, 2013 — The EU’s cyber security agency European Union Agency for Network and Information Security announced on Tuesday it has released the results of its Annual Incident Reports 2012, which among other things showed that there were 79 major telecom outages in 2012. Keep on reading: ENISA Reports 79 Major Telecom Outages in 2012 Continue reading

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