Neowin News Feed for: Disrupts

Damaged Cable Disrupts Internet in the Middle East

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:28:20 +0000

A breakdown in an international undersea cable network disrupted Internet links to Egypt, India and Gulf Arab countries on Wednesday, and Egypt said it could take several days for its services to return to normal.... Read more...

Homeless man disrupts Internet2 service

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:26:20 +0000

A fire started by a homeless man knocked out service between Boston and New York on the experimental Internet2 network Tuesday night. Chris Robb, an engineer at Indiana University's Global Network Operations Center who... Read more...

Romanian hacker disrupts NASA communications

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:51:30 +0000

A Romanian hacker has been charged with running amok on more than 150 US government computers. Victor Faur, 26, of Arad, Romania, allegedly launched attacks that disrupted the systems of NASA, the Energy Department, and... Read more...

Outage disrupts Microsoft services

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 08:45:24 +0000

Thanks xStainDx...Microsoft said late Thursday that problems with its .Net Passport servers briefly locked some subscribers out of their online accounts. "Some users have been experiencing some intermittent problems with sign-in," said Adam Sohn, a... Read more...