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This doesnt look right: whois facebook.com @8.8.8.8 Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. FACEBOOK.COM.DISABLE.YOUR.TIMELINE.NOW.WITH.THE.ORIGINAL.TIMELINE-REMOVE.NET FACEBOOK.COM.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM FACEBOOK.COM.LOVED.BY.WWW.SHQIPHOST.COM FACEBOO…
BBC[1] are reporting it was a "configuration problem", no hack [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30996928
That's why I can't comprehend companies using SaaS solutions like Slack or HipChat for something as crucial as internal communication, that requires a connection to an external server to work. What's even more scary is the data leakage risk - with DDoS you know when something bad happens, because the service simply doesn't work, but with data leakage how can you tell? Every single conversation stored on a 3rd party s…
We self-host our own HipChat servers, so they weren't affected by this.
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For comparison, the cost of downtime for a single oil rig is on the order of $100 per second. Petrobras, as an example, operates 70 rigs and has a market cap of $125 billion. Facebook has a market cap of $216 billion. (source for cost: Cormorant Alpha shutdown in 2013) Edit: misplaced parenthesis => my first number was way off, $70 000 vs $100. Redid analysis, made mental note not to do math before coffee intake.
That seems a tad... high. $70,000 = $2 trillion a year, assuming 24/365 usage. Total value of all oil produced in the world (assuming $50/barrel) is roughly $1.4 trillion a year.
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I am not familiar with Lizard Mafia, do they have a history of famous hacks?
They hacked Malaysian Airlines website yesterday. The wiki page goes into more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Squad
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Simple Bayesian analysis says it is them as they do not have a record of lying. Why would they? There is nothing to gain and everything to lose.
How does simple Bayesian analysis suggest that? :-)
Official update: "Facebook and Instagram experienced a major outage tonight from 22:10 until 23:10 PST. Our engineers identified the cause of the outage and recovered the site quickly. You should now see decreasing error rates while our systems stabilize. We don't expect any other break in service. I'll post another update within 30 mins. Thank you for your patience." https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/393…