Epitome: Bug breaks the internet
By Elliott Richardson and Craig Daveson in Epitome on Thursday, 10th June 2021 at 9:58amEpitome is brought to you by the 2021 Samsung Australia IT Journalism Awards.
Business | For once it wasn’t a Kardashian’s scantily clad behind claiming to break the internet. This time it was a bug allegedly triggered by a Fastly customer which created a cyber-blackhole and prevented access to a number of large websites.
Business | For once it wasn’t a Kardashian’s scantily clad behind claiming to break the internet. This time it was a bug allegedly triggered by a Fastly customer which created a cyber-blackhole and prevented access to a number of large websites.
Simon Sharwood from El Reg carried Fastly’s response and clarification of what actually happened. It turns out that a software bug that was part of a 12 May software deployment was activated by accident when a customer pushed through a configuration change. Sharwood wasn’t too convinced by Fastly’s response, remaining sceptical of yet another company apologising for a mistake that was avoidable and caused a large amount of damag...
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