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Having trouble getting to your favorite web sites or use your favorite apps this morning? You just might be able to make it work if you are able to switch service providers. Then you probably won't be able to reach the half that were working for you. The strange separation of parts of the network that we saw yesterday has become much more severe overnight. Switching to making a phone call instead might not do you any good.

Officials have confirmed that Emergency Operations Centers have partially activated. Computer network staff at many companies are also working overtime this weekend. "Increasing staffing levels is largely a precaution," explained Bertie Finknottle. "We already have redundant service from different network providers and can answer calls and computer requests that make it to us. The problem is often at the consumer service level, where redundancy suffers to keep service affordable at an individual or family level."

Late yesterday, Western intelligence and cybersecurity agencies have issued another joint alert to the telecommunications sector. The limited-distribution alert seen by ABCDEFG News. Confirming that a sophisticated attack on information infrastructure is underway, the alert gives specific recommendations to protect infrastructure. Increasing both technical and physical security measures have been recommended.

"Provocations from the decadent will not go unpunished," read the headline from the official state media in The Bokononic Republic of Wayma. The autocratic nation has long heavily-policed its own highly restricted Internet access and boasted of its offensive cyber capability. Experts are divided in the level of sophistication Wayma has in its own forces and how much it acts as a mouthpiece for an emerging bloc of Bokononic nations.

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