Online Banking Apps Including ANZ And Commonwealth Downin Outage
Due to an outage across the globe, internet banking has been affected by Australian banks.
On Thursday afternoon, major banks such as ANZ and Commonwealth Bank were displaying their websites to customers.
In the wake of a global outage hitting apps and websites, internet banking for Australian banks has been affected
Bank of Melbourne and Westpac were also reported as not accessible to customers, as well as banks in New Zealand.
Customers were notified via the ANZ app that "Something went wrong." If you need help you can call us anytime.'
A message on the ANZ app told customers"Sorry, something went wrong. We are available 24/7 to help you if you have any questions. GAMING
Some ATMs were reported to be inactive The reports also stated that ATMs in stores were affected as well.
The crash is believed to be caused by an issue at Akamai the world's largest content delivery network platform which is the core of the major online services.
There were also reports of ATMs being out of action, and in-store machines reporting an outage.
Data from downdetector.com.au revealed the extent of the outage. It affected all major banks as well as blue-chip companies such as Telstra, Optus, and numerous others.
Amazon, Minecraft, Australia Post and the NBN website were also among the victims of the crash, according to the website.
Services started to come back online about 3.35pm on Thursday, around 90 minutes after the initial reports of problems.
Despite the return of other sites Virgin Australia's website wasn't affected.
Australian CDN company peakhour.io said that the latest downtime that affected major companies underscored the fact that anyone can be affected by a network failure.
A Content Delivery Network is a global cloud-based network that connects computers to improve the speed as well as security and reliability of websites that serve their customers.
Peakhour co-founder Daniel D'Alessandro explained that CDNs often create many copies of websites for their customers, and then distribute the copies and cache them across the world.
People who visit a site will be served from the closest cache, making the site appear more responsive and faster by removing the limitations of distance and bandwidth between the client and server.
'CDNs can also boost website reliability - users will often not notice if the actual website goes down, so long as the caches remain functional.
"Many CDN providers also deliver cyber security services too - blocking attack traffic closest to where it's sourced in the first place, before it gets close to the goal.' [https:/techplanet.today/post/how-do-i-download-minecraft-for-pc-1 Games]
Hackers will often attempt to disable websites and apps by employing a technique called DDOS – distributed denial of service. This is how they generate a huge surge of traffic at specific weak points in a network to overload it.
He said, "Akamai is a venerable and well-respected business However, as we've seen two times this week, outages are possible to anyone.
"The the fact that so many major organizations and the vital services they offer across Australia could be affected simultaneously, regardless of the reason is a signal that there is a dire need to redeploy.
'Companies that send their traffic through a third party, whether it be a CDN or DDOS protection, all require a Plan A, just like any other crucial piece in their IT infrastructure.
