Venezuela

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2020
Venezuela – Power outage knocked out part of the internet connectivity

A power outage and fluctuations in supply across Venezuela 1 March 2020, knocked out approximately 35% of the country’s telecommunications infrastructure. The NetBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, reported that yesterday (March 1, 2020) a massive power outage across Venezuela that knocked out a large part of the country’s connectivity to the Internet. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2019
Venezuelan Minister declares Venezuela’s Blackout may be caused by cyberattack carried by US

Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information Jorge Rodriguez blamed US cyberattack for Venezuela’s blackout. Last week, Venezuela had suffered a major blackout and Nicolas Maduro immediately blamed on opposition “sabotage” of a hydroelectric dam. The power outage hit 22 of 23 states of the country and also the capital Caracas went in the dark. On […]