ANZ Banking Service Outages Cause Frustration and Financial Disruption October 25, 2021 ANZ banking, one of Australia‘s largest banking institutions, is currently experiencing widespread service outages, leaving customers unable to access online banking, credit and debit cards, ATM services, and branches. Since 1pm on Friday, more than 8000 people have reported service disruptions on the […]
Online payment platform Square experiences widespread outage Square service outage causes financial loss for small businesses Small businesses across Australia have faced significant challenges today as a widespread service outage affected the online payment platform, Square. The outage resulted in businesses struggling to process sales and caused financial losses for many owners. Tim Webbers, the […]
Widespread Outage Plagues Online Payment Platform Square By Allanah Sciberras, 4:45pm September 8, 2023 Small businesses across Australia have faced significant challenges in processing sales today, as a widespread service outage has affected the popular online payment service Square. The outage has caused frustration and financial losses for business owners who rely on Square for […]
Australia Frustration and ‘unacceptable service‘ as Square outages force customers to pay cash Introduction The online payment platform Square has been plagued by service disruptions and outages, leading to frustration among customers and business owners, forcing them to resort to cash payments or IOUs. The impact of these outages is not limited to Australia alone, […]
## Archive of Our Own Faces DDoS Attack: A Blow to Fan Culture ### Introduction In a shocking turn of events, the popular fanfiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) has fallen victim to a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, rendering the site inaccessible. While the website’s system administrators are diligently working on implementing countermeasures, there remains […]
National News: ‘Rate limit exceeded;’ Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide Introduction On July 1, 2023, Twitter faced a major disruption that affected thousands of users worldwide. The issue arose after owner Elon Musk implemented new restrictions, limiting most users to viewing only 600 tweets per day. Musk claimed that these restrictions were necessary […]
Technology ‘Rate limit exceeded;’ Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide Introduction On Saturday, July 1, 2023, thousands of Twitter users around the world experienced a significant outage, rendering the social media app inaccessible. The report, shared by CBS News, states that users encountered error messages like “RateLimitExceeded” and “Sorry, you are rate limited. Please […]
Commonwealth Bank Outage Impacting Customers Around Australia Introduction The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, also known as CommBank, is currently experiencing a widespread outage that is causing disruptions for its customers across the country. Many users have reported long load times for the CommBank app and an error message stating that their balance cannot be displayed. […]
Commonwealth Bank working ‘urgently’ to fix downed services The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) is currently experiencing technical difficulties that have caused certain services to be inaccessible. Users attempting to access their online banking accounts may encounter difficulties logging in. CommBank has acknowledged the issue and is actively working to address the problem. “We’re aware […]