Continuity Management and Technology Services – News Reblog

Disaster Recovery Planning

Why the Web was Down Today – Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer

October 21, 2025

Dave explains today’s Amazon Web Services outage, what happened, and what the future implications are.

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Disaster Recovery Planning

Amazon Web Services outage takes leading websites offline

October 20, 2025

Disaster Recovery Planning

A major Google Cloud outage was caused by uninterruptible power supplies being…interrupted | TechRadar

April 17, 2025

Disaster Recovery Planning

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups | Ars Technica

May 18, 2024

Why the Web was Down Today – Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer

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Amazon Web Services outage takes leading websites offline

A major Google Cloud outage was caused by uninterruptible power supplies being…interrupted | TechRadar

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups | Ars Technica

Continuity Management

Amazon Route 53 launches Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records | AWS News Blog

Why the Web was Down Today – Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer

Amazon Web Services outage takes leading websites offline

PayPal and Venmo are down — live updates as users are left wondering if their money is safe | Tom’s Guide

Technology Management

U.S. places $11 million bounty on Ukrainian ransomware mastermind — Tymoshchuk allegedly stole $18 billion from large companies over 3 years | Tom’s Hardware

Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad – Ars Technica

These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024 | TechCrunch

WordPress.org statement threatens possible shutdown for all of 2025 – Computerworld

Crisis Management

More Than 390,000 Without Power In Louisiana Thursday | Weather.com

DICK’S shuts down email, locks employee accounts after cyberattack

Expert confirms Columbus Ohio data leak affects residents

Channel File 291 Incident RCA is Available | CrowdStrike

Emergency Management

How to Align Your Incident Response Practices With the New SEC Disclosure Rules – SecurityWeek

Why the toxins from the Ohio train derailment could have posed deadly threats for residents nearby – ABC News

Train derails, goes up in flames in Ohio, causes half of town to evacuate – ABC News

Shrinking Mississippi River Puts American Farm Trade at Risks

Risk Management

Open Banking: CFPB’s 1033 Rule and the Cost of Compliance

Company Behind Major Social Security Number Leak Files for Bankruptcy | PCMag

AT&T fined $13M for data breach after giving customer bill info to vendor | Ars Technica

TD Bank ordered to pay $28 mln by US CFPB for misreporting consumer credit data | Reuters

Compliance

Have a SaaS Contract in Place? You May Need an AI Addendum | Harris Beach Murtha PLLC – JDSupra

Bank of America hit with OCC order over BSA | Banking Dive

New HIPAA Rules Mandate 72-Hour Data Restoration and Annual Compliance Audits

6 regulatory moves, people whose days are numbered under Trump | Banking Dive