Facebook outage

[hollohas]

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been offline most of the day.

Their DNS records were wiped. If that were the only issue, I suspect they would have been back online much quicker.

But reports are now coming out that employees can't access FB offices because their keycards don't work. Which isn't associated with DNS. They have internal system problems too.

Nobody is saying "hack" yet, but it sure seems like a much bigger issue than the DNS human error they reported.

I know there is no love lost between folks here and FB, but this could get interesting. This is happening as a whistleblower is testifying in front of Congress tomorrow. Interesting timing.

Did some hackers finally decide enough is enough? Time will tell. But if it's no back online tomorrow, their stock is going to absolutely crater. They already lost of $50B in value today.

[Scanker19]

That’s terrible…

[TEAMRICO]

That?s terrible?

[FoxtArt]

Sounds like a possible stock opportunity in the near future TBH. Not that I don't hate facebook.

Very curious on the DNS wiping.

DNS is the real weakness of the entire internet. If a widespread BIND vulnerability ever was identified, the entire internet would pretty much blink out for awhile insofar as name-based browsing is concerned. Or many other possibilities. It's nowhere near as redundant as people would like to believe.

That would have to be a hell of a hack though to get to the keycards. If true, that is suspicious. I have a hard time believing a company like Facebook would leave their access/control server internet connected. That... almost sounds like an insider / deep network pen. Or a long undetected nation state pen to get that far...

Unless they are morons on logical/physical security, which is not entirely impossible, but seems unlikely.

[def90]

Sounds like a possible stock opportunity in the near future TBH. Not that I don't hate facebook.

Very curious on the DNS wiping.

DNS is the real weakness of the entire internet. If a widespread BIND vulnerability ever was identified, the entire internet would pretty much blink out for awhile insofar as name-based browsing is concerned. Or many other possibilities. It's nowhere near as redundant as people would like to believe.

That would have to be a hell of a hack though to get to the keycards. If true, that is suspicious. I have a hard time believing a company like Facebook would leave their access/control server internet connected. That... almost sounds like an insider / deep network pen. Or a long undetected nation state pen to get that far...

Unless they are morons on logical/physical security, which is not entirely impossible, but seems unlikely.

I install access controls systems, a lot of them are moving to cloud based management and smart device app integration in addition to or in lieu of using actual keyfobs or card key tokens. The app integration would require an operational web connection between the access control server and the outside world/internet to work. Depending on whether or not Facebook is hosting their own access control server and if they are operating it off the same system that the platform itself is running on then I could see that outage happening.

[hollohas]

I install access controls systems, a lot of them are moving to cloud based management and smart device app integration in addition to or in lieu of using actual keyfobs or card key tokens. The app integration would require an operational web connection between the access control server and the outside world/internet to work. Depending on whether or not Facebook is hosting their own access control server and if they are operating it off the same system that the platform itself is running on then I could see that outage happening.

Yikes. That's concerning. I guess it makes sense, people are installing residential versions too. I'm all for web connected tools. I love them. I have tons around my house, including sensors of all sorts. But none of them responsible for my main security. The web connected door lock is where I draw the line.

[Irving]

Consider me interested.

[FoxtArt]

Just reading into it now, also hit all their owned apps - Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.

Sounding slightly less like a hack. More like a cascading, horrible, shitty day for a few people in IT that will have to be job hunting soon.

[hollohas]

And worldwide productivity must have skyrocketed today.

[hollohas]

Agreed on the possible stock opportunity soon.

Cloudflare with some more details. FB maybe back up soon? Cloudflare is seeing some activity from FB.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-...cebook-outage/