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A host of Alphabet services were knocked offline Monday in a worldwide outage spanning the tech giant’s major platforms — including YouTube, Google Drive and Gmail — suspending work and school accounts for tens of millions of users. Google blamed an “internal storage quota issue” for the outage that its workplace status dashboard showed began at 6:55 a.m. Eastern time for all of its listed services: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides,… Source link

Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs have been hit with a widespread outage. DownDetector indicates that the outage, which appears to be affecting Google’s business and personal services, started at around 6:40AM ET in the case of Gmail. Reports are mounting on Twitter as users can’t access its basic services, with Gmail and the hashtag “#YouTubeDOWN” starting to trend. As of this writing, the status page for Google’s… Source link

An ongoing malware campaign is blasting the Internet with malware that neuters the security of Web browsers, adds malicious browser extensions, and makes other changes to users’ computers, Microsoft said on Thursday. Adrozek, as the software maker has dubbed the malware family, relies on a sprawling distribution network comprising 159 unique domains with each one hosting an average of 17,300 unique URLs. The URLs, in turn, host an average… Source link