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Post by Stealth on Jun 8, 2021 20:51:23 GMT 10
Reddit appeared to be down just now. Didn't think much of it until I did a bit of searching. Found this; "Multiple global, Australian news sites down including BBC, New York Times, SMH, Age""A number of news sites went down on Tuesday night including the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. Australian sites have also been hit. Matt Young JUNE 8, 2021 8:35PM A huge swathe of national and international sites operated by news outlets went down on Tuesday night including the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. The Guardian, SMH, AFR and The Age are reported to be affected locally, including Channel 10 + 10play down online. Retail giant Amazon, Reddit, Pinterest and Twitter have also reportedly been affected while The Verge, Financial Times and Bloomberg were also experiencing outages. Most users are receiving ‘Error 503’ messages when attempting to access the sites. Internet sleuths are suggesting a “big attack” but no confirmation has yet been made. Other reports indicate the outage was caused by a data centre provider, Fastly. More to come." Seems that most sites that were affected are back up now, but with the slew of cyber blackmail that's been hitting the US in the last couple of weeks, who knows what happened?
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Post by bce1 on Jun 8, 2021 21:32:14 GMT 10
Same in NZ. Interestingly a risk management company my company use started sending messages saying a major CDN failure (what ever the means) was occurring and recommended taking servers off line until issue was clear!!
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Post by Stealth on Jun 8, 2021 21:51:42 GMT 10
A CDN is a Content Delivery Network, it's basically not a server but helps with caching (storing of data) to make things load faster. Which is exactly why it affected us as well, Fastly has I think five CDN nodes in Australia so the fact that they were impacted means that things just choked and died.
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Post by tomatoes on Jun 12, 2021 15:54:39 GMT 10
Edited - with a quick search I can see that it has been explained. I still wonder why the public interest in outages like these is so brief.
Original message - There doesn’t seem to have been a reason given in the news for this - I know that it was all just a issue with fastly - the data centre provider - but I want to know why that company had an issue. These outages always just seem to disappear from news very quickly.
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Post by Stealth on Jun 12, 2021 19:17:55 GMT 10
I find the claims that one customer changing their settings impacted the WHOLE service... Dubious. But I guess we'll see what happens in the coming weeks.
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Post by tomatoes on Jun 17, 2021 16:18:57 GMT 10
Another outage - banks, etc - linked again to a CDN provider
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Post by SA Hunter on Jun 17, 2021 19:05:29 GMT 10
This is a video from Geneva of the Russian President Putin, the first part discusses cyber attacks - very interesting answers to the journalists question.
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Post by norseman on Jun 18, 2021 7:32:33 GMT 10
This is a video from Geneva of the Russian President Putin, the first part discusses cyber attacks - very interesting answers to the journalists question. Putin is awesome! You might not like his answers but I would trust him ten fold over any Western Politician these days!
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Post by Stealth on Jun 18, 2021 9:58:12 GMT 10
Another outage - banks, etc - linked again to a CDN provider I wonder if this would have been kept quiet as well if it were possible, much as they did with the news outage. Different CDN this time which in my mind makes it even more suspect. Does anyone feel like the last few weeks have been a coordinated probing test targeted at primary industry points?
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