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Facebook is apparently getting DDOSed

Irobot82

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SJRB said:



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EILI5 please
 
p_xavier

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rofif said:
Lol that is a reason why I refused to accept "IT security auditor" position at my company.
It is a SINGLE PERSON position responsible for whole thousand people company IT security.
I feel I know this stuff but not nearly enough... and even if I would, You still get fired for this type of stuff which is not your fault.

So I am still an engineer.....
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Or you get a cyberinsurance. I saved 5 millions.
Pietanic said:
Nothing wrong with being an engineer my man. I am happy being a security engineer for the rest of my days, way worse jobs you could do. I agree we need to stop this victim blaming and having singular people from organisations take responsibility for breaches. If a big or bad enough APT group wants to take you down….they will. We are always fighting a losing battle.
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Yup.
 
ColonialRaptor

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Sybrix said:
Do we know the cause?

Hackers or technical fault?
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All we know is the DNS servers are gone and fb employees can’t access the internal systems for security cards for physical access onsite.

There are rumours that seem to imply a hack.

Im no system engineer or IT specialist but I understand things well enough to speculate a little. From what little I understand of how these things work it seems to me it may have been an internal mistake or deliberate hack. If it’s an inside job FB could potentially claim ‘technical fault’. I read that an update from last night was the cause, so that’s where I think the inside job stuff is coming from because a small coding error in the update wouldn’t cause this much trouble and last this long it would be simple enough to reverse the update and use the redundant backup. Seems to me a bigger issue, but this is all speculation.

edit: and it’s back.
 
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Irobot82

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MJackson said:
Imagine if someone deleted all the contacts on your phone and you couldn't remember all of their numbers.

Edit: lol they fucked up and put facebook.com on oculus.com for a second then >_<
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So they still have all their data on their servers they just don't know how to route it? If they don't know those numbers can't they just make new ones?
 
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Annnnnd the records are all back, give it 5 minutes to cache shit tho before trying it again.

Irobot82 said:
So they still have all their data on their servers they just don't know how to route it? If they don't know those numbers can't they just make new ones?
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Well they just needed to configure a bunch of shit from scratch without their internal comms working, so it's why oculus.com went to the facebook CDN for a few seconds until they picked the right IP for it. Everything is there, it was just a routing issue.
 
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It's crazy how interwoven social media has become within human society.
Large swaths of people jumping to the next active large platform and the memes and meta nature surrounding that lol
Anyone addicted to being on social media is likely experiencing some anxiety.
An obscene amount of calculable revenue loss from just a few hours of downtime. Holy shit.
Several platforms for communication and channels of information, gone without warning.
When millions of humans have access to each other on that scale it feels like a shock to the system whenever it goes down.
It feels significant now, even if you don't particularly like social media you're still hearing about it.

Hate it or love, this shit is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Like a new layer of reality.
 
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rofif

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Tommi84 said:
So...uhmmm... how are your Oculus Quest headsets?

Are you able to play games?
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I only had quest 1... You can't play offline with quest 2?! I know it requires fb account but surely not to play downloaded games?
 
Pallas

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Here I was hoping that Facebook would be gone forever. Gonna be interesting to see how this played out.
 
Nitty_Grimes

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ColonialRaptor said:
If it is just the routing servers then the data and their backups are fine but all we know from the outside so far is that the routing servers are gone and the Facebook buildings digital cards aren’t working. That says to me that something in the inside is worse than just the routing servers. If it’s just the routing servers they would have fixed it already. They have many redundant backups of the data though so I doubt we’ll see any personal loss. That hacking sale thing makes me believe it’s just stirring the pot the amount of data for 1.5 billion people is no small thing.
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If anyone would know, Gem would 👍🏻
 
Insane Metal

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Whatsapp still down here. We use it for everything here in Brazil.
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IT'S BACK! The minute I said it was down lols.
 
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dorkimoe

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ItsGreat said:
I imagine the amount of messages backed up and queued to send must be immense.

How will they deal with the backlog?
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We had some idiot somehow do a send all to like 70,000 employees, and then people replied to it, took our servers down for awhile. There was like million messages in queue lol so the facebook amount would be billions
 
AJUMP23

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I couldn’t upload my family trip pictures today for a while. But I survived. Location date still isn’t working though.
 
LMJ

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Oh sure, you could blame the Whistleblower, or say it's an internal thing...

But we all know the real reason

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Kagey K

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EviLore said:
How many people around the world today realized that they're addicted to Instagram or Facebook?
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Hopefully some of them realized just how dependant they are on these big conglomerates, and why putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea.

I imagine TikTok and Twitter saw a surge of entertainment users, but business users really realized just how dependant on these systems they are, and hopefully realized they need to diversify.
 
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BadBurger

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Kagey K said:
Hopefully some of them realized just how dependant they are on these big conglomerates, and why putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea.

I imagine TikTok and Twitter saw a surge of entertainment users, but business users really realized just how dependant on these systems they are, and hopefully realized they need to diversify.
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I know a woman who works a kind of high level marketing job, and according to her Facebook is actually a pretty shitty platform for pure marketing purposes. It's good at extending reach, as she called it (I guess that's total eyes?) but doesn't really drive sales and isn't considered crucial as an advertising platform to anyone in the know.

Grain of salt though. Just one anecdote from a person I happen to know and all.
 
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Kagey K

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BadBurger said:
I know a woman who works a kind of high level marketing job, and according to her Facebook is actually a pretty shitty platform for pure marketing purposes. It's good at extending reach, as she called it (I guess that's total eyes?) but doesn't really drive sales and isn't considered crucial as an advertising platform to anyone in the know.

Grain of salt though. Just one anecdote from a person I happen to know and all.
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As a small business, Facebook does nothing for us. It's more of a headache than it is worth.

It has only driven a handful of customers, despite someone actually spending time and effort on it.

I've seen others find moderate success with it, but it's not the essential service some made it to be in this thread.
 
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