Displaying items by tag: Outage

The four social horsepeople of the hackapolypse may not yet be descending upon planet Earth just yet, despite Facebook's various properties going down twice a week, but as I type, LinkedIn is down - UPDATE: Now appears to be back.

Facebook. The company has been on an apology tour for most of its existence, mostly for invading people's privacy in different ways, and hot on the heels of a whistleblower exposing Facebook's allegedly dodgy algorithms comes the now resolved outage that affected Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Oculus Web.

The DownDetector site was showing 1371 reports of Zoom being down at 9.01AM AEST, and while the site shows 116 reports as at 10.32am, Zoom's Status page says the outage was resolved at 9.18AM this morning.

Optus suffered a major network outage this morning Friday, 2 July.

GUEST OPINION: Mike Hicks, the Principal Solutions Analyst at Cisco ThousandEyes, has cast his eyes over Akamai's Prolexic Routed outage last week to analyse what happened, which as Akamai noted, wasn't due to a cyber attack but an inadvertently exceeded routing table value. How did this happen, who was hardest hit, and how can downtime be mitigated? Please read on!

GUEST OPINION: Mike Hicks, the Principal Solutions Analyst at Cisco ThousandEyes, has cast his eyes over Akamai's Prolexic Routed outage last week to analyse what happened, which as Akamai noted, wasn't due to a cyber attack but an inadvertently exceeded routing table value. How did this happen, who was hardest hit, and how can downtime be mitigated? Please read on!

Last week it was CDN network Fast.ly that had an outage causing many global websites to temporarily go down, and yesterday it was Akamai's CDN service with a "routing error" taking many Aussie sites temporarily offline.

Fastly's latest response to yesterday's outage puts the blame indirectly on an unnamed customer.

Internet CDN provider Fastly has admitted that last night's outage was due to a configuration error.

The internet outage this evening has been resolved, although we still don't know the cause.

As we write, the internet is experiencing a major outage across a wide variety of platforms.

Australia's biggest bank, the Commonwealth Bank, is currently having issues that are impacting the usage of credit and debit cards of its customers.

Aussie Broadband is having an unscheduled outage from around midday AEST in Victoria on its NBN network, showing outages can happen to any company, with reports its site and its own infrastructure is affected.

Vodafone users have poured onto Twitter to complain of being unable to access data, or even make calls and texts, with Vodafone acknowledging the issue, identifying it and resolving it as quickly as possible.

At 11.57am, an email arrived with an "Optus Network Update at 11.15am" that "services are now being restored".

Telco Singtel Optus is experiencing issues with its network, with some customers, both residential and businesses, affected.

No doubt it's just a temporary situation, but I can't get into Gmail, and both Down Detector and Tweets say the same thing.

Three arbitrations into a dispute between Basslink — the company that manages the undersea data and power cable that links Tasmania to the Australian mainland — the State of Tasmania and Hydro Tasmania have ended, with the outcomes favouring the first two entities mentioned.

A day after it blocked the posting of an article about alleged shady doings by the son of Democrat presidential contender Joe Biden, the social media site Twitter has apparently been hit by an outage.

Microsoft's 365 services have been hit by another outage, beginning at about 2pm EST on Wednesday (5am AEDT Thursday) and affecting the eastern and western coasts of the US.