{"id":1805,"date":"2021-06-09T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/09\/fastly-says-single-customer-triggered-bug-behind-mass-internet-outage\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T12:52:05","slug":"fastly-says-single-customer-triggered-bug-behind-mass-internet-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/09\/fastly-says-single-customer-triggered-bug-behind-mass-internet-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastly says single customer triggered bug behind mass internet outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bug was introduced in May and lay dormant until a customer updated their settings, firm says<\/p>\n<p>An internet blackout that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/08\/massive-internet-outage-hits-websites-including-amazon-govuk-and-guardian-fastly\">knocked out<\/a> some of the world\u2019s biggest websites on Tuesday was ultimately caused by a single customer updating their settings, the infrastructure provider Fastly has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>A bug in Fastly\u2019s code introduced in mid-May had lain dormant until Tuesday morning, according to Nick Rockwell, the company\u2019s head of engineering and infrastructure. When the unnamed customer updated their settings, it triggered the flaw, which ultimately took down 85% of the company\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/09\/fastly-says-single-customer-triggered-bug-that-caused-mass-outage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ee37153ea7c2b16ab1b2a3188acf8c85ea1ef668\/0_0_5368_3223\/master\/5368.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0fffa2b37310c023725e20da5a498956\" title=\"Fastly says single customer triggered bug behind mass internet outage\" \/>Bug was introduced in May and lay dormant until a customer updated their settings, firm says<br \/>\nAn internet blackout that knocked out some of the world\u2019s biggest websites on Tuesday was ultimately caused by a single customer updating their settings, the infrastructure provider Fastly has revealed.<br \/>\nA bug in Fastly\u2019s code introduced in mid-May had lain dormant until Tuesday morning, according to Nick Rockwell, the company\u2019s head of engineering and infrastructure. When the unnamed customer updated their settings, it triggered the flaw, which ultimately took down 85% of the company\u2019s network. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bug was introduced in May and lay dormant until a customer updated their settings, firm says An internet blackout that knocked out some of the world\u2019s biggest websites on Tuesday was ultimately caused by a single customer updating their settings, the infrastructure provider Fastly has revealed. A bug in Fastly\u2019s code introduced in mid-May had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/09\/fastly-says-single-customer-triggered-bug-behind-mass-internet-outage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fastly says single customer triggered bug behind mass internet outage<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1806,"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\/1805"}],"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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}