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posted by Fnord666 on Friday June 18 2021, @01:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-balance-or-payments-for-you dept.

Channel 9 Australia and the Guardian are reporting major outages of several banks in Australia.

Outages are being reported by CBA, NAB, ANZ, Westpac and St George customers, according to DownDetector.

Virgin Australia has also been affected by the outage.

Twitter users are suggesting that Hosting and CDN provider Akamai is the company experiencing the issues and outages this afternoon. This is a global problem, of course the timezone makes it worst for us.

There is no official word from any impacted banks as to the root cause.

Additional coverage at Reuters and the BBC


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @01:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @01:48AM (#1146803)

    Fuckin' Jews, is who did it.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Friday June 18 2021, @02:38AM (2 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday June 18 2021, @02:38AM (#1146813) Journal

    "no one was ever fire for buying IBM"
    seems to a have been replaced with "no on was ever fired for using (cloud provider of the day: AWS, Akamai, etc)"

    Decentralisation/non-centralisation of the net was one of the key strengths.. why are we now using one or two provides for some (rather important) parts?

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    "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @02:55AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @02:55AM (#1146819)

      The biggest part reason is the artificial limitations imposed by ISPs distorting the market, followed by better resistance to DRDOS attacks that are only possible because ISPs refuse to do egress filtering. I'd love to run my own server but neither ISP where I live allows servers of any kind. That leaves hosting is the only alternative, and if you can't afford your own rack space at a colo then the cloud providers are your only other option.

      • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday June 20 2021, @12:50PM

        by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 20 2021, @12:50PM (#1147470) Homepage Journal

        The regular ISP's here (telephone company, cable network) do not allow servers for residential users, and will not provide a commercial connection at a residence.

        However, one of the other ISP's, who by regulation are allowed to use the telephone company's last-mile connections to the home, does allow it, so I get to have my server at home.

        If this permission were widespread, I'd expect there would be commercial software available to the rubes for running your own website at home.

        Duplicating what Linux will offer for free, of course. But with hand-holding.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @02:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @02:44AM (#1146816)

    Nobody cared. Nobody that counts anyways. Not even lowly SN ACs.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @03:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @03:25AM (#1146828)

    I like it when people tickle my buttocks.

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Friday June 18 2021, @03:27AM (1 child)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday June 18 2021, @03:27AM (#1146830) Journal

    That will never be publicly revealed, but all the usual suspects will be in the headlines.

    --
    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @04:18AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @04:18AM (#1146846)

      ...cyberwar.

        \%%%%/
      ヽ(°o°)ノ
        %%%%

      But it's cyberwar.

      -

      Never let a good zeroday go to waste.
      Join the privateer cybernavy NOW!

      -

      On a serious side, time to rethink things; errors or enemy action are hitting too many things, like fish on a barrel. Dunno, maybe change software in really tiny steps, so any error affects one client or two and you roll back in seconds, not lots of banks and airlines at the same time. Maybe from the other side, force big companies to use multiple CDNs even if they do not want, via "all eggs in one basket" tax. Whatever. Or someday the issue will be big, accident or attack does not matter, and the company will not recover and havoc will spread.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @03:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @03:49AM (#1146839)

    to avoid taking deposits. [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @10:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 18 2021, @10:14AM (#1146907)

    Otherwise, they should check the router for a nest of highly venomous spiders.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 18 2021, @04:00PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 18 2021, @04:00PM (#1146995) Journal

    Did they try turning off and then back on again?

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
  • (Score: 1) by BeaverCleaver on Saturday June 19 2021, @10:56AM (1 child)

    by BeaverCleaver (5841) on Saturday June 19 2021, @10:56AM (#1147272)

    We're all nerds here, right? Nerds know about backups, right? Well, the backup for this sort of thing is to make sure you always have some cash, so you don't have to rely on a computer network to support your card. (Not to mention all the security issues associated with "tap & pay" purchases)

    Don't support cashless businesses, and don't support the idiots in our government who try to discourage the use of cash.

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