ANALYSIS A Facebook engineer issued a command to assess the availability of global backbone capacity and this, unintentionally, took down all the connections in the company's backbone, effectively cutting off all its data centres, the company says.
Crowdsource security testing startup Synack has announced Gus Anagnos, former PayPal expert responsible for developing and leading the PayPal Bug Bounty Program, has joined the company as VP of Strategy and Business Operations.
Google has made some big changes to its search algorithm, codenamed 'Hummingbird', the first big upgrade for three years.
Instagram and Facebook are planning to add short videos to the Instagram app, according to online reports.