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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Amazon Web Services went down Tuesday morning impacting users around the world who couldn’t access certain services and websites.

According to a posted message from AWS at 8:22 a.m. (PT) the company was “investigating increased error rates for the AWS Management Console.”

Down Detector, a website that tracks online issues shows the problem peaked around 9 a.m.

The outage impacted Amazon’s web-hosting platform taking down Netflix, Disney+, and Venmo.

McDonald’s, Tinder and even Associated Press went dark.

Some serious security vulnerabilities exist in the web hosting platform cPanel & WHM allowing for remote attacks. Some of the bugs actually exist because of an intended feature, hence, remain unfixed.

cPanel & WHM Vulnerabilities

Researchers from the UK-based cybersecurity firm Fortbridge have found numerous security issues in the popular web hosting platform.

In a recent blog post, Adrian Tiron, Cloud AppSec Consultant at Fortbridge, explained that exploiting the vulnerabilities allows remote code execution attacks on cPanel & WHM.

Briefly, the researchers spotted the bugs during a black-box pentest of cPanel/WHM that supports entire server administration.

One of the bugs includes an XML External Entity (XXE) that existed in the reseller account the researchers tested. This issue…

DoubleClick by Google refers to the DoubleClick Digital Marketing platform which is a separate division within Google. This is Google’s most advanced advertising tools set, which includes five interconnected platform components.

DoubleClick Campaign Manager: the ad-serving platform, called an Ad Server, that delivers ads to your customers and measures all online advertising, even across screens and channels.

DoubleClick Bid Manager – the programmatic bidding platform for bidding on high-quality ad inventory from more than 47 ad marketplaces including Google Display Network.

DoubleClick Ad Exchange: the world’s largest ad marketplace for purchasing display, video, mobile, Search and even Facebook inventory.

DoubleClick Search: is more powerful than AdWords and used for purchasing…