It makes sense for companies and organizations to outsource key internet services, but with those services in the hands of a few corporations, failures have a wide impact.
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The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration on few cloud providers is changing that.
We don’t yet know the full cost and scale of the damage, or how long it will take supply chains to fully recover.
The CrowdStrike outage reveals the fragility of interconnected systems – a digital monoculture makes us all vulnerable.
A faulty software update crippled airlines, hospitals and government services. A security researcher explains why it’s likely to happen again and what needs to be done to lower the odds of a repeat.
Enterprises across Australia and the world are struggling to cope with a huge software outage – but your home computer is probably safe.
Google’s brief disappearance from the internet felt, for many, like an almost-apocalyptic moment
By shutting off internet access completely, the government of Kazakhstan was able to silence dissent, hinder protesters’ coordination and keep the populace in the dark.
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University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University
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Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, Director, Digital Democracy Lab, William & Mary
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Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University