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New social media platform is safer for young people says founder

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LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

#Downdetector tells BBC it's received >6.5 million global reports, affecting more than 1,000 companies.
Says today's UK user reports ~800,000 compared to ~160,000 on an average weekday.

#AWS #AmazonWebServices #Outage #BigTech

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

New #socialmedia platform safer for young people
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Tribela from #OxfordUniversityInnovation is set to launch in 2026.
#TechNews #Technology #Tech #OxfordUniversity #UniversityOfOxford

Tribela is designed for under-18s and has come out of Oxford University Innovation.

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

A stark reminder that the world depends on a handful of major cloud service providers, and the knock-on effect of an #outage.

#AmazonWebServices #AWS #MicrosoftAzure #GoogleCloudPlatform #GCP #CloudComputing

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

"Redundancy, geographical distribution of resources and testing of emergency scenarios should be the norm, not a luxury."

Marek Szustak, IT Security Officer, eSky Group

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

"This is a good lesson for companies using the cloud: it is worth designing systems so that a failure in one region or provider does not bring the entire business to a halt. "

Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds bank hit by Amazon Web Services internet outage - live updates

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

BBC reporting that #Reddit facing problems as other services recover.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Hundreds of sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are affected - Amazon Web Services says it's fixed the underlying issue but a full recovery will take longer.

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

#LloydsBankingGroup says services are now coming back online.

#Outage #HalifaxBank #BankofScotland #HBoS #AWS #AmazonWebServices #LloydsBank

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

UK govt in contact with #Amazon over today’s #outage.

“We are aware of an incident affecting #AmazonWebServices, and several online services which rely on their infrastructure. Through our established incident response arrangements, we are in contact with the company...” #AWS

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

#LloydsBank confirms #outage affecting it and its subsidiaries #Halifax and #BankofScotland are related to today's #AmazonWebServices issues.

#AWS #HBoS #HalifaxBank

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

#AWS said global services or features that relied on US-EAST-1 endpoints (a data centre in Virginia) were affected.

Now reporting: "We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have [...] recovered"

#Outage #AmazonWebServices

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

#HMRC confirms services hit by #AWS #outage.

#AmazonWebServices

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks. It's going to be a lot of services around the globe.

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

#Coinbase & #Robinhood attribute outages to #AWS. #Perplexity also posts to confirm it's been affected.

#AmazonWebServices #Outage

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

#AmazonWebServices releases statement saying: "We are seeing significant signs of recovery."

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

Problems reported by users in Australia, New Zealand, the US and UK.

Fortnite, Roblox, SnapChat, Lloyds Bank and Ring doorbells among services hit.

September 2025 Newsletter - Insider Threats - LaneSystems

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 2d

Major internet #outage affecting dozens of services as problems hit #AmazonWebServices

#AWS #CloudComputing

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LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 5d

The September newsletter has been added to the website.
lanesystems.co.uk/september-20...

This month: Insider threats, deepfake calls target businesses, old tech data disposal, AI actors, plus the latest LaneSystems news.
#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #TechNews

September 2025 newsletter: Insider threats, deepfake calls target businesses, old tech data disposal, AI actors & latest LaneSystems news

lanesystems.co.uk

Chinese cyberspies compromised Russian tech provider

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 5d

Chinese cyberspies snoop on Russian IT biz in rare east-on-east attack
www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/c...

Intrusion by #Jewelbug APT group (aka CL-STA-0049, #REF7707, #EarthAlux) into a Russian IT services firm.
#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #CyberEspionage

: Who needs enemies when you have friends like Xi?

Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 5d

#Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work
www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/u...

Another 53 percent drop projected by ISE.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews #Technology #TechJobs

ai-pocalypse: GenAI meets Gen Z – only one gets the job

Sotheby's finds its data on the block after cyberattack

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LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 5d

Auction house Sotheby's finds its data on the block after #cyberattack
www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/s...

#DataBreach on July 24 saw #datatheft of unspecified amount of data.
#CyberCrime #InfoSec #Sothebys

: Alert says financial account information lifted from systems

CVE, CVSS scores need overhauling, argues Codific CEO

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 5d

#Vulnerability scores, huh, what are they good for? Almost nothing
www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/c...

#CVE and #CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency.
#CyberSecurity #InfoSec

: CVE and CVSS systems suffer from misaligned incentives and inconsistency

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 5d

Scottish data centres powering #AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tonnes of water used in cooling systems to stop servers overheating.
#TechNews #Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCentre

The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

How to tell the health of a battery in a used EV

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LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 5d

How good is the battery in a used electric vehicle?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People in the market for a second-hand EV are plagued by battery anxieties.
#TechNews #ElectricCar #ElectricVehicle #BatteryAnalytics #Technology #Tech

Companies are offering tech they say can accurately test the health of batteries in used EVs.

Victims of romance fraud tricked out of £106m last year

LaneSystems @lanesystems.bsky.social · 5d

Victims of #romancefraud tricked out of £106m in past year
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A growing crime that targets both the heart and the pocket.
#CyberCrime #CyberFraud #Scam #DatingApps

Varun Yadav lost his entire life savings after he was a victim of romance fraud on a dating app.