Online Banking Apps Including ANZ And Commonwealth Downin Outage

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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 for customers.



As a result of an outage across the globe that hit websites and apps, online banking for Australian banks has been affected



Users have reported that Westpac and Bank of Melbourne were also unavailable, as well banks in New Zealand.



Customers were notified via the ANZ app that "Something went wrong." If you require assistance you can call us anytime.'



A message on the ANZ app said to customers"Sorry, there was something wrong. We are available 24/7 to assist you if you have any questions.



Some ATMs were also being reported to be out of commission too with reports of machines in stores malfunctioning during the outage.



A problem at the international content delivery network Akamai which is the backbone of major online services - is understood to be involved in the crash.



Some ATMs were reported to be out of commission too, with reports of in-store machines also not working during the outage.



The data on the Internet watchdog downdetector.com.au revealed the extent of the outage and the number of banks affected plus blue chip companies such as Telstra and Optus.



Amazon, Minecraft, Australia Post and the NBN website were also the victims of the crash, as per the website.



Services started to come back online about 3.35pm on Thursday, about 90 minutes after the first reports of problems.



However, Virgin Australia's website was down despite the return of other websites.



Peakhour.io, an Australian CDN company, said that the recent outage that affected such large companies underscores the fact that any network could fail.



A Content Delivery Network is a global cloud-based network that connects computers in order to improve the speed security, reliability, and security of websites that they offer to their customers. MULTIPLAYER SERVERS



Peakhour co-founder Daniel D'Alessandro explained that CDNs often create multiple versions of websites for their customers, then share them and cache them all over the globe.



The users who visit a website will be served from their closest cache, which makes the website appear faster and more responsive, by removing the limitations of distance and bandwidth between the client and server.



CDNs can also boost the reliability of websites. Users are unlikely to be aware that the website is down for a while, as long as the caches are operational.



"Many CDN providers also deliver cyber security services too blocking attack traffic close to the source, long before it gets anyplace near the target.'



But hackers will often try to bring websites and applications down through a method known as DDOS which stands for distributed denial of service. Mpservers In this, they orchestrate a massive surge of traffic at specific weak points within an internet network in an attempt to overwhelm it.



He added: 'Akamai is a venerable company and well respected globally however, as we've seen twice in the past week outages can happen to anyone.



"The fact that so many key major organisations, and the critical services they deliver across Australia, can all be destroyed simultaneously, due to whatever cause, indicates a critical need for redundancy.



Companies that route their traffic through a third party whether it's a CDN, DDOS protection, or not, all require an alternative plan, just like any other vital element of their IT infrastructure.