{"id":6657,"date":"2021-06-10T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:58:07","slug":"one-fastly-customer-triggered-the-internet-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/one-fastly-customer-triggered-the-internet-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"One Fastly Customer Triggered The Internet Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a recent update, cloud computing company Fastly revealed that the internet blackout, which affected the operation of many high-profile websites, took place after a customer changed his settings and discovered a bug in a software update issued to customers in mid-May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, according to the company it caused, &#8220;85% of our network to return errors.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While apologizing for the power outage, Nick Rockwell, senior engineer at Fastly, said: &#8220;This outage was broad and severe &#8211; and we&#8217;re truly sorry for the impact to our customers and everyone who relies on them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57413224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fastly reveals that the internet blackout was triggered by one customer who discovered a software bug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}