denial-of-service

Capital One Bank Network Outage

June 10, 2011 at 11:48 AM

in Meanderings

If you’re a Capital One [COF] Bank customer, you may have noticed some inklings of trouble in the company today. As one of the latest of a series of customer-facing snafus and negative actions, as of less than one-half hour ago, the entire bank network is still down. When I went to check on this, [...]

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