Central Bank of Thailand to introduce rules to limit bank system outages

ATM machines of different Thai banks at Siam Paragon, Bangkok
ATM machines of different Thai banks at Siam Paragon shopping center in Bangkok. Photo: Chainwit. CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Bank of Thailand (BoT) is to issue a new regulation which seeks to put a time limit on commercial banks’ mobile banking app outages, [Read More…]

‘Who broke the internet?!’ Major outages hit Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, Zoom, Snapchat & others after FB crash

MacBook Pro displaying lines of code
MacBook Pro displaying lines of code. Photo: markusspiske (Pixabay).

Many of the world’s largest apps and websites, including for banks and airlines, faced a cascade of outages all in the space of a few [Read More…]

‘We’re Sorry’: Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp Slowly Coming Back Online After Six-Hour Outage

Facebook home page
Facebook home page. Image: geralt (Pixabay).

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp appear to be coming back online after several hours of error messages and outages, according to users with Facebook’s community of [Read More…]