Industry
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World Cybersecurity Forum (1st Quarterly Clubhouse Edition)
We held the first World Cybersecurity Forum this past week and it was a great success! The World Cybersecurity Forum was a 24-hour event held for the first time this year on Clubhouse! The event featured cyber experts from around the world, and was an event open to all with the mission of demystifying cyber, creating awareness and answering the public’s questions. The World Cybersecurity Forum believes that cybersecurity is EVERYONE’S responsibility. Organized by Jacqueline Jayne, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4, Jacqueline or, JJ, for short, can be found on LinkedIn. The session aimed to bring the best minds together from around the world to talk about all things cyber.…
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Akamai DNS Massive Global Internet Outage Takes Down Major Websites, Online Services
In a System Status, Akamai has acknowledged the incident as an “Edge DNS Service Incident”. Bleeping Computer reported that, “Akamai is investigating an ongoing outage affecting many major websites and online services, including Steam, the PlayStation Network, Newegg, Cloudflare, AWS, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.” They have mitigated the incident as of July 22, 2021-17:09UTC. According to the System Status on Akamai’s site: “We are aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service. “We are actively investigating the issue. If you have questions or are experiencing impact due to this issue, please contact Akamai Technical Support. In the interest of time, we are providing you the most current information…