https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Cyberattack-takes-out-Akamai-DNS-or-did-it/m-p/46589#M5524 <P><A href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/todays-massive-internet-outage-comes-courtesy-of-akamai-edge-dns/?fbclid=IwAR2P7v66FAcYAfKIz3zeqYTuU0wnJkz431cdEOA4eB6KayIlaW3SiuCwz6M" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/todays-massive-internet-outage-comes-courtesy-of-akamai-edge-dns/?fbclid=IwAR2P7v66FAcYAfKIz3zeqYTuU0wnJkz431cdEOA4eB6KayIlaW3SiuCwz6M</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>No word yet on what really happened.&nbsp; Will be interested in the outcome.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>d</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:32:48 GMT dcontesti 2021-07-23T12:32:48Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Cyberattack-takes-out-Akamai-DNS-or-did-it/m-p/46589#M5524 <P><A href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/todays-massive-internet-outage-comes-courtesy-of-akamai-edge-dns/?fbclid=IwAR2P7v66FAcYAfKIz3zeqYTuU0wnJkz431cdEOA4eB6KayIlaW3SiuCwz6M" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/todays-massive-internet-outage-comes-courtesy-of-akamai-edge-dns/?fbclid=IwAR2P7v66FAcYAfKIz3zeqYTuU0wnJkz431cdEOA4eB6KayIlaW3SiuCwz6M</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>No word yet on what really happened.&nbsp; Will be interested in the outcome.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>d</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Fri, 23 Jul 2021 12:32:48 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Cyberattack-takes-out-Akamai-DNS-or-did-it/m-p/46589#M5524 dcontesti 2021-07-23T12:32:48Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Cyberattack-takes-out-Akamai-DNS-or-did-it/m-p/46591#M5525 <P><SPAN>"At 15:45 UTC on July 22, 2021, a software configuration update triggered a bug in our Secure Edge Content Delivery Network impacting that network's domain name service (DNS) system (the system that directs browsers to websites for that specific service).&nbsp;This caused a disruption impacting availability of some customer websites. The disruption lasted up to an hour. Upon rolling back the software configuration update, the services resumed normal operations"</SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN><A href="https://blogs.akamai.com/2021/07/akamai-summarizes-service-disruption-resolved.html" target="_blank">Akamai Summarizes Service Disruption (RESOLVED) - The Akamai Blog</A></SPAN></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>We were affected by this outage indirectly by a third party SaaS application we use but it wasn't a significant impact because it only lasted an hour. What surprises me as more and more companies use DNS protection services is a lack of redundancy in place&nbsp;or proper testing of the update on a secondary system that is near real-time.</SPAN></P> Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:21:33 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Cyberattack-takes-out-Akamai-DNS-or-did-it/m-p/46591#M5525 tmekelburg1 2021-07-23T15:21:33Z