Cyber-attacks seem to be occurring on a daily, if not hourly, basis. On 8 June 2021, multiple websites went offline briefly throughout the world after an outage at the cloud service company Fastly, revealing how critical a handful of companies running the Internet's network have become. Dozens of sites including the New York Times, CNN, some Amazon sites, Twitch, Reddit, the Guardian, and the U.K. government's home page, could not be reached.
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