Posted on 06/17/2021 1:37:00 AM PDT by PghBaldy
The websites for multiple companies, including major airlines such as Southwest, Delta, American and United, appeared to go down or experience problems shortly after midnight Thursday. Meanwhile, websites for E-Trade, ADP, Navy Federal Credit Union, Discover and Vanguard also were having issues, DownDetector reported.
https://downdetector.com/
How about the places the PedoDementoCorruptoCrat told Putin not to mess with?
~Easy
Someone I know in the cyber security field says that in general, cyber attacks on businesses is the hallmark of Chinese hackers while the Russians tend to go after individuals, as in Hillary’s laptop kind of stuff.
I could see China behind it and everyone blaming the Russians.
But honestly, the Russians have been taking the blame for everything for over 50 years and counting now. It’s getting old. They are just a convenient scapegoat because nobody wants to tick off the Chinese who have too many ways to retaliate and really hurt this country.
You should never become so dependent on your enemy for so much of your goods and economy.
I guess they weren’t on Biden’s “please don’t hack these places” list.
I think Biden just received a response to his list of the offlimits 16. Self-inflicted error of an overconfident staff triggered who knows what hacker network
In other news: Futures in covered wagon manufacturers and buggy whip factories set a 100 year high
And new student enrollment in horse-shoeing academies is at a fever pace
My guess is that all the sites in question use either Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, and somebody over there hit the wrong button. It happens more often than either of those companies like to admit.
Public clouds are neither cheaper, nor more reliable. You pay more and typically get less.
We’d be better off with more blacksmiths than gender studies majors.
Bkmk
Navy federal credit union? What? I knew something was up when I went from 1.2 million to 12 dollars. I hope they fix this. Lol.
Windows update?
I take it these were on Biden’s “please hack” list for Putin?
THAT was fast!! Vlad didn’t even wait till Joe got home!!
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