CenturyLink Archives

China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target

Richi Jennings | August 28, 2024 | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon

Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ...

Security Boulevard

Lumen Says It’ll Exit Russia—but Will it REALLY?

Richi Jennings | March 9, 2022 | AS3356, CenturyLink, , lies damn lies and PR, Lumen Technologies, Russia, sanctions, SB Blogwatch, Ukraine

Lumen Technologies said it’s pulling out of Russia—or did it? We read the PR spin carefully ...

Security Boulevard

The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire

BrianKrebs | November 26, 2021 | A Little Sunshine, Adam Korab, bgp, Border Gateway Protocol, CenturyLink, Internet Routing Registry, IRR, kc claffy, Level3 Communications, Lumen Technologies, The Coming Storm

Imagine being able to disconnect or redirect Internet traffic destined for some of the world's largest companies -- just by spoofing an email. This is the nature of a threat vector recently ...

Krebs on Security

Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

BrianKrebs | September 29, 2020 | 911 outage, A Little Sunshine, azure, CenturyLink, fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Intrado, Microsoft, The Washington Post, West Corporation

Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the problem was related ...

Krebs on Security