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Facebook Hacked (Knocked offline)
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Posted on 11/02/2012 4:47:28 PM PDT by Bon mots
Looks like Facebook is having some real trouble... knocked offline for some reason and not coming back up...
http://downrightnow.com/facebook
http://www.facebook.com
TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: down; facebook; hacked; offline
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To: Bon mots
Sounds series, hugh even.
Are you logged on?
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posted on
11/02/2012 5:53:17 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
Yes. It’s hugh. A moose once bit my sister...
Actually, the world’s most notorious hacker hacking the world’s most valuable Internet property (and social network) in one of the world’s largest markets is a pretty big story.
Of course, you are free to care less...
:)
42
posted on
11/02/2012 5:58:04 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
(Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
To: driftdiver
UPDATE
According to another source, Facebook is acknowledging the outage in Europe, but saying that it is not due to Anonymous... but due to DNS changes.
(Domain Name Server)
Facebook Europe Hack
So don't dump your stock just yet...
:)
43
posted on
11/02/2012 6:05:19 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
(Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
To: Bon mots
Facebook says reports that its servers have been hacked by Anonymous are false, and that the company is actually experiencing outages on the European continent.
A hacker that goes by the Twitter handle @AnonymousOwn3r claimed to have taken down Facebook in Europe earlier today, siting a vulnerability called cross-site request forgery. @AnonymousOwn3r is otherwise known for hacking into GoDaddy in September. “Evidence” was posted on Pastebin, but Facebook called the hacker’s bluff, telling VentureBeat in an email:
There has not been a hack of Facebook, we have investigated these claims and they are not valid. The evidence cited was produced by an automated vulnerability scanner that alerts developers of potential vulnerability, and we have found these all to be false alerts.
We expect Anonymous just like we expect any other attack on any other day. Due to our size, we face the same threats as seen everywhere else on the web, but we have developed partnerships, backend systems, and protocols to confront the full range of security challenges we face. Facebook has always been committed to protecting our users’ information, and we will continue to innovate and work tirelessly to defend this data.
A website called DownWhere?, however, shows Facebook as only “moderately” available in Denmark, France, and Norway, and is “severely” unavailable in Italy. Facebook told VentureBeat that this was the result of a change to its domain name system.
“Earlier today we made a change to DNS as part of a traffic optimization test, and that change resulted in some users being temporarily mis-routed. We detected and resolved the issue immediately, but a small number of users located primarily in Western Europe experienced issues accessing the site while the DNS addresses repopulated. We are now back to 100 percent, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
44
posted on
11/02/2012 6:08:31 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
(Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
To: Bon mots
In my previous post they said that they are back to 100%, and that is not at all true. I'm still getting this:
45
posted on
11/02/2012 6:10:50 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
(Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
To: Bon mots
Don’t have any stock to sell.
A DNS fubar certainly makes sense.
46
posted on
11/02/2012 6:11:49 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
BofA is down too.. I just paid two BOA credit cards online minutes ago.
These companies have extensive distributed systems, sometimes depends on the customer's location or type of business and sometimes not. Rarely is the whole works down (but can happen).
47
posted on
11/02/2012 6:12:15 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture tm)
To: Bon mots
hurray! good riddance, the quicker it crashes the better...
48
posted on
11/02/2012 6:19:44 PM PDT
by
B212
To: Bon mots
i get to facebook fine
maybe its just your problem
49
posted on
11/02/2012 7:04:11 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: Ingtar
Dittos on the Like Button for FR...
50
posted on
11/02/2012 9:19:11 PM PDT
by
tubebender
(Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
To: Ingtar
Dittos on the Like Button for FR...
51
posted on
11/02/2012 9:19:19 PM PDT
by
tubebender
(Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
To: tubebender
Just goes to show, don’t mess with the Navy Seals
52
posted on
11/03/2012 4:01:51 AM PDT
by
DAC21
To: Bon mots
It says they are redoing their files. I’m wondering if it’s an excuse to prevent anti-obama stuff from getting shown during the election, my page had such things. (Surprise!)
53
posted on
11/06/2012 2:24:36 PM PST
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: Nateman
Has anyone else noticed an ad all day that is a link to 0bama’s page that WAS NOT REMOVEABLE? Usually when something about him pops up I click the little x and choose “offensive” as the reason for removing it. Today there was no little x and no way to remove!
54
posted on
11/06/2012 2:32:09 PM PST
by
worrywart
(Living up to my freezer name today, big time!)
To: Nateman
Has anyone else noticed an ad all day that is a link to 0bama’s page that WAS NOT REMOVEABLE? Usually when something about him pops up I click the little x and choose “offensive” as the reason for removing it. Today there was no little x and no way to remove!
55
posted on
11/06/2012 2:32:33 PM PST
by
worrywart
(Living up to my freeper name today, big time!)
To: Nateman
Has anyone else noticed an ad all day that is a link to 0bama’s page that WAS NOT REMOVEABLE? Usually when something about him pops up I click the little x and choose “offensive” as the reason for removing it. Today there was no little x and no way to remove!
56
posted on
11/06/2012 2:32:36 PM PST
by
worrywart
(Living up to my freeper name today, big time!)
To: Nateman
57
posted on
11/06/2012 2:38:19 PM PST
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: worrywart
Yes, I’ve noticed similar ads. I saw one that said “are you in?” I wanted to reach through the screen and slap him!
58
posted on
11/06/2012 2:40:08 PM PST
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: Free America52
I did not click on any link. I Trash everything I get from FB.
59
posted on
11/22/2012 7:31:34 PM PST
by
HotHunt
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A hacker that goes by the Twitter handle @AnonymousOwn3r claimed to have taken down Facebook in Europe earlier today, siting a vulnerability called cross-site request forgery. @AnonymousOwn3r is otherwise known for hacking into GoDaddy in September. “Evidence” was posted on Pastebin, but Facebook called the hacker’s bluff, telling VentureBeat in an email: