Posted on 06/08/2021 5:55:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON (AP) — Multiple websites went offline briefly across the globe Tuesday after an outage at the cloud service company Fastly, revealing how critical a handful of companies running the internet’s plumbing have become.
Dozens of sites including the New York Times, CNN, some Amazon sites, Twitch, Reddit, the Guardian, and the U.K. government’s home page, could not be reached.
In Asia, cities like Hong Kong and Singapore were also affected, with users unable to access the CNN website. In China, where most foreign media websites are blocked, there was little discussion on the outage on social media platforms such as Weibo.
San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 6 a.m. Eastern. It said in repeated updates on its website that it was “continuing to investigate the issue.”
About an hour later, the company said: “The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.” A number of sites that were hit early appeared to be coming back online.
Fastly said it had identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions, meaning the outage appeared to be caused internally.
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Cyber Polygon test
Note that the date is July 9th, yet we’ve already seen ‘supply chain’ disruptions.
Cyber Polygon in 2021
This year discussions during the live-streamed conference will centre on secure development of ecosystems. With global digitalisation further accelerating and people, companies, and countries becoming ever more interconnected, security of every single element of a supply-chain is
key to ensuring the sustainability of the whole system.
During the technical exercise, participants will hone their practical skills in mitigating a targeted supply chain attack on a corporate ecosystem in real
time.
The event will be held online on July 9th. Applications from organisations wishing to join the training are open. See further details on the official website.
https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon
Dozens of sites including the New York Times, CNN could not be reached. What a shame.
The cloud dissipated?
I had problems with both Amazon and Detroit Free Press websites but both are back to normal now.
“cloud service company Fastly”
Should be a good target for ransomeware.
I had problems reaching the net yesterday afternoon, but now all is well in the land!
CA....
When you turn over the operation of critical infrastructure to a 3rd party (i.e., cloud service by definition) you should expect this. It’s kinda like banks turning over bill processing services to someone not sitting in their offices. 10-15 years ago that was the source of practically all identity theft crappola — some mid-level manager trotted in with a proposal (from relative, no doubt) to “outsource” a bit of communication tech to a 3rd party — “They take all the risk for 1/3rd the cost, win-win!!” Golly gee, a few weeks later some TWOT at the 3rd party sells all customer info. Who woulda guessed?
Service configuration that triggered disruptions custodian spills mop pail things get dark real fast.
Seems to be working fine now. I couldn't surf the internet, watch live-streaming TV, read the news on FR, exchange emails. I was dead in the water, as they say.
I did play a lot of digital solitaire during the down time. Everything else required the internet.
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