Major internet outage impacts websites and apps around the world

It was caused by an outage at Fastly, a CDN provider like Akamai and Cloudflare. It does look like something that would happen due to DDOS or an internal systems compromise - possibly a fallout from Solarwinds compromise a few months ago. I am waiting to see more information being released. Very interesting though.
 
bjorn said:
Oh wow. A major hack attack during the summer. Just as Klaus Schwab, the Dark Lord of the Great Reset predicted.

Now, cybersecurity is going to become a talking point during the upcoming G7.
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Almost like Herr Schwab can look into the future, eh? However, the massive brainwashing machine is absolutely dependent on the net. Our rulers will only turn it on and off, for short while, to scare people into compliance. They need to feed us their lies.
 
Victor Pigeon said:
Almost like Herr Schwab can look into the future, eh? However, the massive brainwashing machine is absolutely dependent on the net. Our rulers will only turn it on and off, for short while, to scare people into compliance. They need to feed us their lies.
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Yeah. There's no intention of deactivating it entirely.

However, they do have the problem that it's a double edged sword: a powerful propaganda/surveillance tool on the one hand, but an equally potent deprogramming tool on the other.

My guess is they want to blunt one of the edges, by removing anonymity, and putting in place systems to censor everything they don't like.

Whether they can succeed with that, on the other hand....
 
Well, according to the below press release, it was a software bug which caused the issue, not a cyberattack. Or, at least that’s what they are saying.
www.theregister.com

Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer

Promises it won't happen again, expresses remorse … all the usual stuff that clouds (and Zuck) say after they stumble around making messes
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Fastly has explained how it managed to black-hole big chunks of the internet yesterday: a customer triggered a bug.

The customer, Fastly points out in a post titled Summary of June 8 outage, was blameless. "We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change," wrote Nick Rockwell, the company's senior veep of engineering and infrastructure.

The bug was introduced in a 12 May software deployment and lay dormant until, on 8 June, "a customer pushed a valid configuration change that included the specific circumstances that triggered the bug, which caused 85 per cent of our network to return errors."


Cue global chaos.

Rockwell's post states that Fastly "detected the disruption within one minute, then identified and isolated the cause, and disabled the configuration. Within 49 minutes, 95 per cent of our network was operating as normal."
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The veep also admitted that Fastly should have done better.

"Even though there were specific conditions that triggered this outage, we should have anticipated it," he wrote.

The company has therefore resolved to do four things:

  • We're deploying the bug fix across our network as quickly and safely as possible.
  • We are conducting a complete post mortem of the processes and practices we followed during this incident.
  • We'll figure out why we didn't detect the bug during our software quality assurance and testing processes.
  • We'll evaluate ways to improve our remediation time.
And, of course, it has apologised and promised it will do its very best not to make mistakes like this again. Which is just what all clouds, and social networks, say when they make avoidable but very damaging errors. ®
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