Reddit goes down with second 'global outage' in two days after Facebook disruption

Daily Star UK ^ | 07 October 2021 | Ethan Blackshaw

[blueplum]

Users of popular forum website Reddit are fuming once more as the social media platform experiences its second global outage in as many days.

Connectivity issues on the site have been detected across the globe, including in the UK, US, Canada and Australia.

The disruption was confirmed by Down Detector, a website that tracks the status of social media platforms.

Data from the site shows that the amount of reports of Reddit being down skyrocketed by 11 times just before 3am today....

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[blueplum]

UK Banks and Reddit? what is going on, IT peoples?

[Dundee]

There was an outage today of one of Australia’s 4 biggest banks as well.

[wannabegeek]

Huh?  Something is cookin'?  If Twitter goes down, too, and google-youtube goes down, too, they maybe probing someting?

[Berosus]

Good, that’s one less email I’ll get tonight. For the past few months, Reddit has sent me an email every evening, letting me know what people are talking about on their site. Why do they email me? I have never had a Reddit account, nor do I remember visiting the site before this started.

[metmom]

This and Facebook?

Something big is going on and I think heading down the pike at us.

I think these are trial runs.

[radu]

That thought struck me, too, when I saw these latest two threads.
Who’s doing it is the big question.

[Mount Athos]

Could it be down pending payment of ransom?

[ronnie raygun]

I agree I’ve been hearing about outages and thinking the same ting, testing testing

[rarestia]

The Facebook/Insta outage earlier this week was deliberate, IMO. The number of things required to go wrong to force a BGP update across a LAN that size is impossible for it to not be an inside job.

Now this?

Several large security entities have been reporting on increased signal intelligence out of China and Russia, specifically state-sponsored hacks, that are targeting global businesses such as banks. I genuinely believe we are seeing activity that history books will refer to as a “run up to WWIII.”

China’s rattling its saber VERY loudly. Taiwan is practically begging for help. The largest military power in the region, Australia, is paralyzed by internal fear, and America, once considered the world’s police force, is being systematically dismantled. Our fighting forces will give the Chinese a run for their money, but logistics are on their side for a war in the Pacific. Destroying the world’s financial industry would be a spark that very few could ignore.

[Old Yeller]

The monsters can pull the Internet plug at will. And they will.

[srmanuel]

I’ve always thought if you really wanted to take down the internet you would do these two things and I’m not sure it’s possible to do either one.

Severely damage the DNS root servers causing them to go offline for an extended period

Develop a kill mechanism that would damage and shut down all Cisco System Routers and Switches connected to the internet, this one step would immediately stop the vast majority of all internet traffic and most internal corporate digital communications as well

Why attack individual companies or industries when you can kill the entire thing at one time

[Roccus]

testing, testing....

Anyone remember Obama's Arab Spring? Back then we were told that all the unrest was being coordinated through social media.....Coincidence?

[Alas Babylon!]

Agreed.

IT folks need to really keep up on their security updates and patches, check their security logs multiple times a day, and keep backups as current as possible.

I know it sounds old school, but vigilance is still required, and not all AI or programmatic security programs can be the only thing.

[sergeantdave]

“IT folks need to really keep up on their security updates and patches, check their security logs multiple times a day, and keep backups as current as possible.”

I’d bet a steak dinner that the dark web has a better backup of Facebook than Facebook.

[The Louiswu]

Reddit is a toilet

[The Louiswu]

"The monsters can pull the Internet plug at will. And they will."

Exactly...I suspect that these outages are just tests, dry runs if you will for the coming day when there will be governmental crackdowns on a national scale here in the US.
Pulling the plug on the internet will kill any coordinated opposition and prevent any real time publishing of images and accounts of the attacks.

Coming food and energy shortages, supply chain disruptions, pandemic to keep you inside, control of a vast majority of the media (the rest they can shut down easily), bad days are coming folks.

[Vaduz]

LOL

It’s lucky the dog could even walk after that.

[ro_dreaming]

Facebook, Google, Reddit, banks, major DNS outage on the west coast last night (supposedly a Frontier connection to T-Mobile/Sprint in the LA area), and more to come as the powers that be try to ‘clean up’ or hide some of their malfeasance.

[Old Yeller]

Yep. Neuter the opposition.