Brian Greenberg :verified:<p>🛰️ Starlink endured one of its most serious global service failures on yesterday. The outage lasted about two and a half hours, traced back to a major internal software malfunction. Among others, it disrupted Ukrainian military communications that power critical drone and battlefield systems. Can governments and the military depend on a privately controlled satellite backbone? 📡</p><p>TL;DR<br>🧠 Software failure knocked service offline<br>🌐 Outage spanned ~2.5 hours globally<br>📉 Tens of thousands of users affected<br>🎯 Ukrainian warfront drone ops stalled</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/713359/starlink-down-outage-global-network-offline" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/news/713359/starl</span><span class="invisible">ink-down-outage-global-network-offline</span></a><br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SatelliteInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SatelliteInternet</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CyberResilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberResilience</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/InfrastructureRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InfrastructureRisk</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a></p>