Getty Images reader comments 20 Orange España, Spain’s second-biggest mobile operator, suffered a major outage on Wednesday after an unknown party obtained a “ridiculously weak” password and used it to access an account for managing the global routing table that controls which networks deliver the company’s Internet traffic, researchers said. The hijacking began around 9:28… Read More »
reader comments 50 with 39 posters participating, including story author Share this story Amazon recently lost control of IP addresses it uses to host cloud services and took more than three hours to regain control, a lapse that allowed hackers to steal $235,000 in cryptocurrency from users of one of the affected customers, an analysis… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 22 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story Some Internet traffic in and out of Twitter on Monday was briefly funneled through Russia after a major ISP in that country misconfigured the Internet’s routing table, network monitoring services said. The mishap lasted for about 45 minutes before RTCOMM,… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story In a major outage yesterday, Facebook, along with its sibling sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unreachable for hours. Real-time website status tracker DownDetector received over 14 million reports from users who couldn’t use the social media giant’s apps and services. But beyond the obvious… Read More »
Enlarge / Today’s global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed by a Facebook engineer this morning. reader comments 369 with 218 posters participating, including story author Share this story Original story 1:26 pm EDT: Facebook—and apparently all the major services Facebook owns—are down today. We… Read More »
reader comments 85 with 56 posters participating Share this story The US Department of Defense puzzled Internet experts by apparently transferring control of tens of millions of dormant IP addresses to an obscure Florida company just before President Donald Trump left the White House, but the Pentagon has finally offered a partial explanation for why… Read More »
reader comments 42 with 30 posters participating, including story author Share this story This is https://speed.gulag.link/, a speedtest application that demonstrates Roskomnadzor throttling to Russian users it impacts. Jim Salter This is the Google-translated version of the gulag.link screenshot to the left. Jim Salter Last night, a confidential source at a Russian ISP contacted Ars… Read More »