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Meanwhile, ransomwareВ - a form of cyberattack which locks files and data on a user's computer and demands payment in order for them to be released back to the ownerВ - is also on the rise. There have been increases in the sophistication of hacking, experts say, with numerousВ Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks seen recently, including on Microsoft, Google and other massive companies.ДDoS attacks work by flooding a victim's system with 'internet traffic' in an attempt to overload it and force it offline.

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Meta's outage on October 4 was ultimately blamed on user error, when a faulty update disconnected its servers from the internet.

IT employees for companies, tech giants and even supermarkets make mistakes, which one cyber security expert blamed on them being 'under pressure' and having to take shortcuts. People often assume any kind of web disruption is linked to hacking, but actually more mundane reasons such as human error tend to be the more likely cause, experts say. 'What we saw was that as the outage continued, the tweets that talked about the desire to find other social media outlets began to increase,' Ms Liao. This suggests that users may not be loyal to one site compared to other, according to Mengqi Liao, first author of the study. The analysis revealed that 29,000 tweets following the Facebook outage expressed a desire to find another form of social media.

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The topics included: complaints, mockery, media reporting, social media detox, log-in desperation, lessons on over-reliance, business impact, problem-solving, personal and professional impact, and social media alternatives. 'This kind of outage provides us an opportunity to see how people reflect on their access to social media, and what we see is that social media has become so important that it's almost a utility.'ДЄfter removing duplicate tweets, the researchers used a statistical model that allowed them to identify the 10 key topics that emerged from the data on the tweets. 'Most media effects research is about showing people media and seeing how they react, but in this study we see that removing media can actually be more informative,' said Shyam Sundar, co-author of the study. Researchers from Penn State University analysed 223,815 tweets following the October Facebook outage that used the hashtag #facebookdown.