The Wire - February 23, 2024

this is a wi for 2130 Zilla February 23rd 2024 preceden is routine information cut off is 2030 bottom line up front no new information on yesterday's cellular outage farmer protests continue in Europe beginning with international events in Europe farmer protests continue as before expanding in both the severity of disruptions caused and the number of nations affected so far major protests are underway in 14 European nations with smaller localized demonstration of solidarity being reported in almost every nation in Europe major actions appear to largely be concentrated in France the Netherlands Spain Ireland and Poland in the Red Sea Horn of Africa region yesterday the merchant vessel Islander was attacked with two anti-ship ballistic missiles causing damage and injuring one crew member the vessel is continuing its Voyage no further details have been released by centcom regarding this attack on the home front in the United States information regarding yesterday's Mass cellular outage remains scarce there have been few public statements from the various entities involved with unconfirmed rumor mostly driving the public discourse surrounding the outage initial theories falsely attributed causation to the solar activity that appeared to coincide with the initial outage the solar activity had nothing to do with the outage and did not impact cellular networks in the United States officially AT&T the root cause of the outage has simply stated that the outage was the result of technical error and not a Cyber attack no further details have been provided analyst comments for this wire more details regarding the cause of yesterday's s outage are not likely to be made public as AT&T has confirmed that the outage was a deliberate action the list of potential theories regarding the incident more or less boils down to intent as AT&T has been extremely quiet regarding the cause of the outage a wide range of possibilities exists a careless or incompetent technician could have been the cause or it could have been a deliberate Cyber attack that authorities are trying to keep quiet as a reminder many substantial cyber attacks of recent memory were publicly disclosed as a user error at first before quite ly being confirmed as a Cyber attack weeks later once the event is out of the press cycle this concludes the wire for 2130 Zulu February 23rd 2024