Kaspersky's VPN and password manager went dark for days worldwide — and the timing has raised awkward questions about Russia's drone-hit data centers
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A multi-day outage of VPN and password services coinciding with drone strikes on data centers shows how physical conflict can cascade into global digital risk. If you provide security or infra tooling, revisit geographic concentration and failover assumptions, not just cyber defenses.
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