AT&T National Outage Credits
AT&T ‘making it right’ with $5 credit to customers after last week’s hours-long outage. AT&T says it will give a $5 credit to customers affected by last week’s nationwide telecommunication…
What does SOS mode on iPhone mean? The symbol appears during the AT&T outage on Thursday.
Thousands of customers woke up Thursday morning to an SOS symbol at the top of their iPhones and no service due to a nationwide telecommunications outage. The outages impacted AT&T…
What caused the AT&T outage? The company’s initial review says it wasn’t a cyberattack.
AT&T offers a $5 credit to customers affected by a communications outage. The outage, caused by a technical error, affected thousands. Many AT&T customers were without cellphone service Thursday thanks…
AT&T outage just a preview of what can happen when cell service goes out: How to prepare
A widespread telecommunication outage that affected tens of thousands of customers in the United States on Thursday raised many questions: What should I do when I can’t use my cell…
DEFINITION: binary
binary What is binary? Binary describes a numbering scheme with only two possible values for each digit — 0 or 1 — and is the basis for all binary code…
What is a WAN? | WAN vs. LAN
A wide area network (WAN) is any network that extends over a large geographic area, usually connecting multiple local area networks (LANs). What is a wide area network (WAN)? A…
AT&T Data Breaches: Full Timeline Through 2023
The most recent AT&T data breach occurred in March 2023, when AT&T notified 9 million customers that their data had been exposed following an attack on a third-party vendor. As…
CDN SSL/TLS | CDN security
What are the security risks to a CDN? Like all networks exposed to the Internet, CDNs must guard against on-path attacks, data breaches, and attempts to overwhelm the network of…
Infrastructure: Definition, Meaning, and Examples
What Is Infrastructure? Infrastructure is defined as the basic physical systems of a business, region, or nation and often involves the production of public goods or production processes. Examples of…
