[The security box] What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?

[Jared Rimer]

We must remember that the Internet is not full proof.

I can care less whether it is up or down.  As I'm in the cyber talk 
room, the site has started coming back online.

Read the article carefully, it seems like they made a mistake doing some 
updates.  It can happen to anybody at any company.

Its not a daily routine.

Jared Rimer
Check out my shows on 986 the mix. www.986themix.com/schedule for more 
info. Shows are on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays
Wednesday's show is on the independent channel. Check schedule for time
www.jaredrimer.net for my other site.

On 10/4/2021 2:26 PM, Jennifer Martinez via Thesecuritybox wrote:
> shit!!!! OMG!! I knew this was going to happen...eventually. So much for 
> my page. after it comes up, I am going away...for good. I've thought 
> about just leaving it. Now, it's a necessity. Fuck you, Zuckerburg! Oh 
> well! Those that I want in my life.... all have other contact means. Go 
> to Hell TwoFace!!!
> 
> On Monday, October 4, 2021, 12:39:04 PM PDT, Jared Rimer via 
> Thesecuritybox <thesecuritybox at 986themix.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp?
> Krebs on Security  /  BrianKrebs
> 
> *Facebook* and its sister properties *Instagram* and *WhatsApp* are 
> suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this 
> happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside 
> Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell 
> computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these 
> destinations online.
> 
> Kentik’s view of the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage.
> 
> *Doug Madory* is director of internet analysis at *Kentik* 
> <https://www.kentik.com/analysis/facebook-suffers-global-outage/>, a San 
> Francisco-based network monitoring company. Madory said at approximately 
> 11:39 a.m. ET today (15:39 UTC), someone at Facebook caused an update to 
> be made to the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records. BGP is a 
> mechanism by which Internet service providers of the world share 
> information about which providers are responsible for routing Internet 
> traffic to which specific groups of Internet addresses.
> 
> In simpler terms, sometime this morning Facebook took away the map 
> telling the world’s computers how to find its various online properties. 
> As a result, when one types Facebook.com into a web browser, the browser 
> has no idea where to find Facebook.com, and so returns an error page.
> 
> In addition to stranding billions of users, the Facebook outage also has 
> stranded its employees from communicating with one another using their 
> internal Facebook tools. That’s because Facebook’s email and tools are 
> all managed in house and via the same domains that are now stranded.
> 
> “Not only are Facebook’s services and apps down for the public, its 
> internal tools and communications platforms, including Workplace, are 
> out as well,” New York Times tech reporter *Ryan Mac* tweeted 
> <https://twitter.com/RMac18/status/1445069187664293895>. “No one can do 
> any work. Several people I’ve talked to said this is the equivalent of a 
> ‘snow day’ at the company.”
> 
> The mass outage comes just hours after *CBS’s 60 Minutes* aired a 
> much-anticipated interview 
> <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-misinformation-public-60-minutes-2021-10-03/> 
> with *Frances Haugen*, the Facebook whistleblower who recently leaked a 
> number of internal Facebook investigations showing the company knew its 
> products were causing mass harm, and that it prioritized profits over 
> taking bolder steps to curtail abuse on its platform — including 
> disinformation and hate speech.
> 
> We don’t know how or why the outages persist at Facebook and its other 
> properties, but the changes had to have come from inside the company, as 
> Facebook manages those records internally. Whether the changes were made 
> maliciously or by accident is anyone’s guess at this point.
> 
> Madory said it could be that someone at Facebook just screwed up.
> 
> “In the past year or so, we’ve seen a lot of these big outages where 
> they had some sort of update to their global network configuration that 
> went awry,” Madory said. “We obviously can’t rule out someone hacking 
> them, but they also could have done this to themselves.”
> 
> In the meantime, several different domain registration companies listed 
> the domain Facebook.com as up for sale. There’s no reason to believe 
> this domain will actually be sold as a result, but it’s fun to consider 
> how many billions of dollars it could fetch on the open market.
> 
> This is a developing story and will likely be updated throughout the day.
> 
> 
> 
> Original Article: 
> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/ 
> <https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/>
> 
> 
> 
> Jared Rimer
> Check out my shows on Saturdays and Sundays right here on the mix.
> Www.986themix.com for more details. Jared Rimer
> Check out my show on www.986themix.com from 7 pm to 10 pm where we play 
> Magnatune and other indipendant artists
> Thank you for subscribing to the Security Box email list.  If you need 
> list management options, please see the link for a section to log in, 
> manage your subscription, and possibly other options that may be of 
> interest.
> 
> Need help?  write the owner, and the owner will get back to you as 
> quickly as possible.  Be clear on what you need.
> 
> Thanks for subscribing!
> 
> -- 
> Thesecuritybox mailing list
> Thesecuritybox at 986themix.com <mailto:Thesecuritybox at 986themix.com>
> http://mail.986themix.com/mailman/listinfo/thesecuritybox_986themix.com 
> <http://mail.986themix.com/mailman/listinfo/thesecuritybox_986themix.com>
> 
> Thank you for subscribing to the Security Box email list.  If you need list management options, please see the link for a section to log in, manage your subscription, and possibly other options that may be of interest.
> 
> Need help?  write the owner, and the owner will get back to you as quickly as possible.  Be clear on what you need.
> 
> Thanks for subscribing!
>