AWS outage caused by “unlikely interaction” between automated systems

The Amazon Web Services outage in North Virginia was caused by a software bug in an automated DNS management system that caused one automated component to delete another’s work. The cloud provider published an extensive post-incident report late on Friday Australian time, shedding light on a disruption touted as the biggest for internet infrastructure in […]

Australia to sign UN ‘surveillance treaty’ in Vietnam

A new United Nations convention aimed at combating cybercrime through increased cooperation and information sharing is set to be signed this weekend by Australia and other nations, at a high-level ceremony in Ha Noi, Vietnam. Led by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) agency, the treaty targets several different online offences, such as phishing, ransomware […]