{"id":1797,"date":"2021-06-08T19:38:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/major-internet-outage-shows-infrastructure-needs-urgent-fixing\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T19:38:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:38:05","slug":"major-internet-outage-shows-infrastructure-needs-urgent-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/major-internet-outage-shows-infrastructure-needs-urgent-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"Major internet outage \u2018shows infrastructure needs urgent fixing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say outage shows internet services too centralised and lack resilience <\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s biggest web outages should act as a \u201cwakeup call\u201d that internet infrastructure has become dangerously over-centralised and lacks resilience, security experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/08\/edge-cloud-error-tuesday-internet-outage-fastly-speed\">unexplained configuration error<\/a> at a single infrastructure provider, Fastly, which handles 10% of the world\u2019s internet traffic, was enough to render <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/08\/massive-internet-outage-hits-websites-including-amazon-govuk-and-guardian-fastly\">major websites and services inoperable<\/a> for almost an hour on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/08\/security-warning-error-cloud-websites-offline-outage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2f6206c180d7253a6d65dafc10f40645b9a8a12d\/0_313_5428_3256\/master\/5428.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fa7f9759896e00ef02305d7af3d1590f\" title=\"Major internet outage \u2018shows infrastructure needs urgent fixing\u2019\" \/>Experts say outage shows internet services too centralised and lack resilience<br \/>\nOne of the world\u2019s biggest web outages should act as a \u201cwakeup call\u201d that internet infrastructure has become dangerously over-centralised and lacks resilience, security experts have warned.<br \/>\nAn unexplained configuration error at a single infrastructure provider, Fastly, which handles 10% of the world\u2019s internet traffic, was enough to render major websites and services inoperable for almost an hour on Tuesday morning. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say outage shows internet services too centralised and lack resilience One of the world\u2019s biggest web outages should act as a \u201cwakeup call\u201d that internet infrastructure has become dangerously over-centralised and lacks resilience, security experts have warned. An unexplained configuration error at a single infrastructure provider, Fastly, which handles 10% of the world\u2019s internet &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/major-internet-outage-shows-infrastructure-needs-urgent-fixing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major internet outage \u2018shows infrastructure needs urgent fixing\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}