#Facebookdown: big "blackout" of Facebook network sites on October 4, 2021

[izentrop]

If we rely on data from the Downdetector site which identifies problems affecting Internet services but also access providers, the Facebook outage began on Monday October 4, shortly after 17 p.m. French time, with a peak from 18 p.m. . It was still in progress at 23:30 p.m. with still over 2000 error reports in France. The 500-speed mark was crossed down after midnight. The outage will therefore have been particularly long, impacting all services over a period of 6 to 7 hours in total ...

According to a freelance reporter who spoke to Twitter the evening, the Facebook bug is linked to "a routine BGP update gone wrong, erasing the DNS routing information Facebook needs for others to networks can find its sites ". https://www.linternaute.com/hightech/ma ... e-facebook

[Christophe]

Yes yes a bug at $ 7 billion obviously they will not admit to having been penetrated deeply! Otherwise it is not 7 but 70 that he would lose the other ...

I believe more in the explanation of Russian ... the next few days will tell

Moreover, some fb users report strange behaviors ... such as the disappearance of photo albums ... to be confirmed!

And what is the relationship between dns and employee security badges?

[ABC2019]

it's very enjoyable to read this thread when you don't have a twitter and instagram account, and just a facebook page that you hardly ever use ...

[Christophe]

Yeah ABC we say thank you who?

I save you a crazy amount of time!

ps: for the last ping it was an error, the whois was not up to date (great), it pings well in EU ... so I learned something: that some sites / whois data were completely out of date ... and that fb (and those who copy paste the info) lie like a tooth puller talking about "bugs" ...

[ABC2019]

certainly your tireless activity of monitoring the net teaches me a lot of things!

but apparently good for the breakdown, everything is working out ...

https://www.legorafi.fr/2014/06/19/face ... urs-caves/

[Christophe]

Yes yes it is getting better ... apparently ...

And for the "failure" sorry ... but it was not one!

The 1st rule of the Fight Club is that it does not exist ... du "good" network administrator is not to admit that it has been hacked ... so as not to admit the weaknesses of its infrastructure to users clients !

We are talking about 1.5 billion accounts left in the wild ... of the dark net ... do you think for 1 second that Zuckerberg would admit that ??? It's exactly like the pfizer cohort of 20 with 000 mouahahahah side effects

The video of the guy with the "Russian" accent above seems closer to the truth to me than the articles in the mass media which speak of "failure" ... without any conspiracy ...

Personally, I will wait a few days before reconnecting to it ... or even a few weeks ... for what it brings anyway!

[izentrop]

The video of the guy with the "Russian" accent above seems closer to the truth to me

you will tell me, the hospitals of Paris have been fooled, following major negligence which should not have taken place with correctly encrypted data

The breach in question was a 0-day (or zero-day) vulnerability. These flaws are the most feared in computer security, because they relate to weaknesses that have not yet been documented. Clearly, they went under the radar, or if they were identified, they were not made public for various reasons - they can be kept for later, for example. https://cyberguerre.numerama.com/13390- ... ncais.html

Fessebouc normally has many more means to avoid this kind of flaw

[Christophe]

Fessebouc normally has many more means to avoid this kind of flaw

Yes, except that security is neglected (but certainly less than respect for private life ...)

Worse there were leaks a few weeks ago ...

So no one (provided they have a minimum of computer security basics and neurons still connected ... it becomes rare) can believe in a coincidence!

Obviously the journalists will do their work of educational undermining and talk about internal "beug" ... to reassure the sheep ...



Facebook prefers profit to security, accuses whistleblower Frances Haugen

https://www.courrierinternational.com/a ... ces-haugen

[Christophe]

The CI debrief on video:

[Christophe]

Otherwise as already said above: the stock market quotation of FB was in free fall FROM the opening ... hours before the blackout therefore!

And today on Bourseorama we can see this: https://www.boursorama.com/cours/FB/

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Nah but no kidding, it's more conspiracy theory it's putting it into practice!