Mark Ellero

A shockingly realistic #cyberthriller, inspired by #cloud computing, casting a sinister shadow on our future #hackers

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Una recensione del tutto inattesa da parte di @cuori_inch, e per questo ancora più gradita. Forse un tantino troppo indulgente nei confronti delle mie #CyberCrimeStories, ma va bene così! Date un'occhiata a https://t.co/1Pu5Qd6gUu, scoprirete un'inattesa "anima" cyber...😎

[Cuori d'inchiostro @cuori_inch]

Panico in corsia - ...: https://t.co/2XjTeNbRrd - #ConsigliDiLetture #Collaborazione #Crimine #Crimini #CyberCrimes #CyberSecurity #Cybercriminali #Cybersecurity #Fiction #Giornale #GranBretagna #Icarus #Informatica #Inglese #Inglesi #Lettura #Letture #Libri #Libro #MarkEllero

[briankrebs @briankrebs]

From trusted source: Person on FB recovery effort said the outage was from a routine BGP update gone wrong. But the update blocked remote users from reverting changes, and people with physical access didn't have network/logical access. So blocked at both ends from reversing it.

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Here's another good explanation of #facebookdown

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Segni di vita da Facebook. Possiamo andare a letto tranquilli...

[Doug Madory (also on Bluesky) @DougMadory]

Signs of life for Facebook?

Global outage has lasted over 5.5hrs so far.

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Perhaps he is underestimating FB ecosystem, but yes, AWS outage would be pure terror.

[Nick Merrill @_elsehow]

as far as structural outages go, this FB thing is relatively minor. a few hundreds of millions of dollars lost at most. if a similar outage hit AWS, cloudflare, akamai, etc, no one's credit card would work. i expect the losses would be in the billions if not trillions.

[Carola Frediani @carolafrediani]

A small team of employees was soon dispatched to Facebook’s Santa Clara, Calif., data center to try a “manual reset” of the company’s servers, according to an internal memo https://t.co/NLeUy6b7gi

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Come volevasi dimostrare...

[BNO News @BNONews]

Facebook has sent a team to one of its California data centers to try to manually reset its servers - NYT

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

La situazione di #facebookdown in estrema sintesi:

[Joyce Karam @Joyce_Karam]

UPDATE: Facebook , Insta, WhatsApp Outage

• 4 hours, ongoing
• NYT: unlikely a hack; FB employees unable to enter building in a.m
• Servers likely behind problem: CTO
• Facebook stocks 📉
• Zuckerberg lost $7 billion: Bloomberg
• Global loss > $160 million/hr: @netblocks

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Questo disastro del #facebookdown sembra la trama di un cyber thriller. Deja vu?🧐#Netcrash?🤔
https://t.co/EHt8u0ojZQ

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

After Facebook gets network back up I expect a long period of instability. Rebooting a distributed system of this size is hard. They will have cold caches and systems that need other systems to bootstrap. #hugops

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

@disinformatico Appunto. Sembra proprio vero. Già due giornalisti del NYT lo confermano.

[Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18]

Not only are Facebook's services and apps down for the public, its internal tools and communications platforms, including Workplace, are out as well. No one can do any work. Several people I've talked to said this is the equivalent of a "snow day" at the company.

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Deeper explanation for #facebookdowm #instagramdown #whatsappdown: "now sysads have to access phisically the peering routers".
All this reminds me more and more closer my #Netcrash novel.

[Jim Salter (aka @[email protected]) 🐀 @jrssnet]

u/ramenporn on Reddit r/sysadmin speculates that an erroneous BGP config change was pushed this morning, which locked out anyone who wasn't physically local to Facebook's BGP core routers:

https://t.co/VAg979Ijsx

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Explanation for #facebookdowm #instagramdown #whatsappdown

[WhatsApp @WhatsApp]

@Twitter 👋 hello!

[Will Oremus @WillOremus]

Anyone who remembers the "fail whale" era in which Twitter would charmingly crash roughly once a week, forcing everyone onto Facebook, can probably imagine how much schadenfreude they must be feeling at this moment

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

# ping https://t.co/HD3bYStTxw
ping: Temporary failure in name resolution

This is really concerning.
This is really a #Netcrash scenery.
https://t.co/iZjUkd8OTE

#facebookdown #instagramdown #whatsappdown

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

# ping https://t.co/HD3bYStTxw
ping: Temporary failure in name resolution

Questo è davvero preoccupante.
Questo è davvero uno scenario da #Netcrash.
https://t.co/EHt8u0ojZQ

#facebookdown #instagramdown #whatsappdown

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Inaccettabile, @LaStampa! cc @MassimGiannini
#Fastly #FastlyDown

[Corrado Giustozzi 🇮🇹🇪🇺 @cgiustozzi]

Come non si fa corretta informazione. Un guasto ad una (importante) linea di comunicazione viene spacciato per un attacco globale a centinaia di siti. Questo è terrorismo psicologico, contrario alla deontologia professionale.

[Mark Ellero @markellero]

Un'ora fa #Fastly è crashato, bloccando centinaia di siti di informazione (e non solo) in tutto il mondo (White House, CNN, https://t.co/MYJXBnXMb9, https://t.co/1R3pEXhr5P, Github, ecc.). Quando la #CDN si trasforma in un #SPF e la realtà supera la fantasia del mio #NetCrash