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How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000

reader comments 50 with 39 posters participating, including story author Share this story Amazon recently lost control of IP addresses it uses to host cloud services and took more than three hours to regain control, a lapse that allowed hackers to steal $235,000 in cryptocurrency from users of one of the affected customers, an analysis… Read More »

Some Twitter traffic briefly funneled through Russian ISP, thanks to BGP mishap

Getty Images reader comments 22 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story Some Internet traffic in and out of Twitter on Monday was briefly funneled through Russia after a major ISP in that country misconfigured the Internet’s routing table, network monitoring services said. The mishap lasted for about 45 minutes before RTCOMM,… Read More »