Thousands of websites and digital services around the world were unavailable on Thursday after cloud computing company Akamai experienced what it called a "service incident." Akamai's DNS services guard against those attacks, known as DDOS or Distributed Denial Of Service attacks. "We are aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service," Akamai said on its website. —@AkamaiBut reports suggest tens of thousands of company websites and apps continue to be disrupted, including airlines, banks, technology companies and retailers. Barely a month ago, a similar DNS issue at web services company Fastly also wiped out thousands of websites and cost $2 billion in economic losses.

Source: CBC News July 22, 2021 17:33 UTC