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Tag: Blackouts

Singtel’s Optus Sees No Precedent for Large-Scale Outage Compensation
17Nov By adminNo Comments
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Singtel’s Optus Sees No Precedent for Large-Scale Outage Compensation

Nov. 17, 2023 12:03 am ETSYDNEY—Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus has paid 36,000 Australian dollars (US$23,299) in customer compensation following an hourslong Australia-wide network outage but said there is no precedent suggesting that it should make widespread financial reparations.The chief executive of Singtel’s Australian subsidiary on Friday said that Optus had received customer claims totaling A$430,000 in relation to the Nov. 8 outage. Millions of customers including hospitals and government departments lost services for several hours, with many small businesses unable to process payments.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Stricken Gaza Hospital Reports Deaths of Newborns as Israel, Hamas Clash Nearby
12Nov By adminNo Comments
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Stricken Gaza Hospital Reports Deaths of Newborns as Israel, Hamas Clash Nearby

Listen to article(2 minutes)Israeli troops and Hamas militants fought intense street battles Sunday around the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, leaving the medical facility with dwindling supplies for thousands sheltering there while a power outage led to the death of two newborns, according to doctors there.Doctors described an increasingly desperate situation at hospitals in northern Gaza, including the biggest one, Al-Shifa Hospital, where they said dozens of dead bodies have been left in the open and decomposing and nearly 40 prematurely born babies are without the incubators they need.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Australia’s Optus Sees No Sign of Cyberattack in Large-Scale Outage
8Nov By adminNo Comments
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Australia’s Optus Sees No Sign of Cyberattack in Large-Scale Outage

Updated Nov. 7, 2023 8:03 pm ETSYDNEY—Singapore Telecommunications-owned Optus has no evidence that a cyberattack was to blame for a network outage affecting millions of customers including emergency services, hospitals and transport systems.The cause of Wednesday’s outage at Australia’s second-largest mobile operator, which in 2022 was hit by a cyberattack in which customer details were stolen, had yet to be identified more than seven hours after customers first complained of problems. There was no sign of an attack and software issues were highly unlikely, Optus Chief Executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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EV Charging Networks Prepare for Cyberattacks
14Jul By adminNo Comments
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EV Charging Networks Prepare for Cyberattacks

As Europe and the U.S. push to ramp up development and sales of electric vehicles, researchers are concerned that cybersecurity is being neglected. In the worst of cases, hackers could engineer blackouts and do damage to entire electric grids by infiltrating charging stations and networks, officials and security analysts warn. “If you have hundreds of thousands of chargers, you are a target,” said Harm van den Brink, a cybersecurity specialist at ElaadNL, a research organization in the Netherlands focused on testing EV charging. In April, the Biden administration proposed tougher car emissions targets to accelerate the transition to EVs and has called for them to make up half of all new vehicle sales by 2030. The European Union has gone further, ...
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