Miscellaneous Tech News
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@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
last few hours I have had issues getting to ML and to Microsoft.. I suspect - it's related.
I had issues with telegram 20 mins ago..
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@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
last few hours I have had issues getting to ML and to Microsoft.. I suspect - it's related.
No trouble with ML for me.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update. -
@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.How does that affect DNS?
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@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@gjacobse said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Facebook and some of its apps go down simultaneously
ArsTechnica reports:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.How does that affect DNS?
Disclaimer:
I do not own, did not write the article describing the issues with Facebook et al, or BGP. -
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know [Updated]
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
DNS—short for Domain Name System—is the service that translates human-readable hostnames (like arstechnica.com) to raw, numeric IP addresses (like 18.221.249.245). Without working DNS, your computer doesn't know how to get to the servers that host the website you're looking for. The problem goes deeper than Facebook's obvious DNS failures, though. Facebook-owned Instagram was also down, and its DNS services—which are hosted on Amazon rather than being internal to Facebook's own network—were functional. Instagram and WhatsApp were reachable but showed HTTP 503 failures (no server is available for the request) instead, an indication that while DNS worked and the services' load balancers were reachable, the application servers that should be feeding the load balancers were not. -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The root cause of the worldwide outage appears to be a flubbed BGP route update.
Huh - wonder where I have read that before....
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
We have customers reporting that Vitelity is losing calls now, too.
Theirs is not a DDoS. They have had multiple technical issues over recent weeks.
https://status.vitelity.com/historyOh, just general problems with similar timing.
A little follow up was posted on the FreePBX community.
https://community.freepbx.org/t/vitelity-net-down/78373/17
@adell444 posted:In regard to Vitelity, I had a call with them today which included the Director of their Voice Engineering and their NOC director. Basically:
- They have been working towards upgrading their infrastructure to be in line with Inteliquent, and on the same network as theirs. This is largely the cause, or indirectly related to the cause of their recent issues in the last few months.
- They have had to roll back their outbound platform migration, but are saying that they have roughly 20% of their customer base on the new platform running without issue. However, being on this new platform would not have avoided the service issues they had on 9/22 and 9/30-10/1. The issues they had on 9/14 were not experienced by anyone on the platform.
- They are hoping to have their infrastructure upgraded by “Thanksgiving” is what they said. Worst case is Q1 2022. They did not inspire confidence when speaking about possible issues between now and then.
- The issue from 9/30-10/1 seems to be something different, but they were not able to tell me anything other than it being an “Exterior Network Event”. This in particular sounds different than the previous issues since they really could not provide me with any information, though I am only speculating.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they have more issues in the next few months related to their infrastructure. I hope this information is useful to anyone reading.
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Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
.Syniverse and carriers haven't revealed whether text messages were exposed.
Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access to customers' text messages. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week said that "in May 2021, Syniverse became aware of unauthorized access to its operational and information technology systems by an unknown individual or organization. Promptly upon Syniverse's detection of the unauthorized access, Syniverse launched an internal investigation, notified law enforcement, commenced remedial actions and engaged the services of specialized legal counsel and other incident response professionals." -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
.Syniverse and carriers haven't revealed whether text messages were exposed.
Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access to customers' text messages. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week said that "in May 2021, Syniverse became aware of unauthorized access to its operational and information technology systems by an unknown individual or organization. Promptly upon Syniverse's detection of the unauthorized access, Syniverse launched an internal investigation, notified law enforcement, commenced remedial actions and engaged the services of specialized legal counsel and other incident response professionals."Wow - didn't know most if not all US SMS went through a single carrier like that.
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Game-streaming platform Twitch has been the victim of a leak, reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.
One would think streamer earnings is confidential company information.
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@jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.
One would think streamer earnings is confidential company information.
LOL, true.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years
.Syniverse and carriers haven't revealed whether text messages were exposed.
Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for hundreds of carriers including Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, revealed to government regulators that a hacker gained unauthorized access to its databases for five years. Syniverse and carriers have not said whether the hacker had access to customers' text messages. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week said that "in May 2021, Syniverse became aware of unauthorized access to its operational and information technology systems by an unknown individual or organization. Promptly upon Syniverse's detection of the unauthorized access, Syniverse launched an internal investigation, notified law enforcement, commenced remedial actions and engaged the services of specialized legal counsel and other incident response professionals."Well,... that'll leave a mark
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Twitch source code, creator earnings exposed in 125GB leak
Twitch confirms the data breach but is investigating the full extent.
Live video broadcasting service Twitch has been hit by a massive hack that exposed 125GB of the company's data. In a 4chan thread posted (and removed) Wednesday, an anonymous user posted a torrent file of the data dump. The dump contains the company's source code and details of money earned by Twitch creators. In a 4chan post seen by Ars today, an anonymous user claimed to leak 125GB of data lifted from 6,000 internal Twitch Git repositories. The forum poster mocked Amazon's acquisition of Twitch, writing, "Jeff Bezos paid $970 million for this, we're giving it away FOR FREE." -
Tesla: Elon Musk says company headquarters will move to Texas
Tesla has announced it will move its company headquarters to Texas from California.
Chief executive Elon Musk announced the move at the electric carmaker's annual shareholders' meeting in Austin. Mr Musk had fallen out with local politicians in Alameda county, California, the location of a key Tesla factory, over its Covid response. He gave several reasons for the move, telling shareholders its Californian factory in Fremont was "jammed". California was also a difficult place for his employees to find affordable housing, he told shareholders. "There's a limit to how big you can scale it in the Bay Area. In Austin our factory is like five minutes from the airport, 15 minutes from downtown," he said. The billionaire technology entrepreneur has had an fractious relationship at times with California. -
US gov’t will slap contractors with civil lawsuits for hiding breaches
Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative mandates data-breach reporting for gov't contractors.
In a groundbreaking initiative announced by the Department of Justice this week, federal contractors will be sued if they fail to report a cyber attack or data breaches. The newly introduced "Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative" will leverage the existing False Claims Act to pursue contractors and grant recipients involved in what the DOJ calls "cybersecurity fraud." Usually, the False Claims Act is used by the government to tackle civil lawsuits over false claims made in relation to federal funds and property connected with government programs. "For too long, companies have chosen silence under the mistaken belief that it is less risky to hide a breach than to bring it forward and to report it,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco, who is pioneering the initiative. "Well, that changes today. We are announcing today that we will use our civil enforcement tools to pursue companies, those who are government contractors who receive federal funds, when they fail to follow required cybersecurity standards—because we know that puts all of us at risk. This is a tool that we have to ensure that taxpayer dollars are used appropriately and guard the public fisc and public trust." -
Passengers couldn’t fly after NHS vaccine passport went offline
Outage lasted approximately 4 hours, causing issues with health app.
England's COVID Pass system went offline for hours on Wednesday, causing British travelers to remain stranded at airports. Some passengers couldn't board their flights, while others suffered delays as both the National Health Service (NHS) website and app experienced issues. An NHS system outage lasting approximately four hours left many British travelers unable to access their vaccination records and present their COVID Pass to the airlines. Prior to letting passengers board, most airlines in the UK require proof of vaccination in printed or digital form. But those without a paper copy were left in limbo as the NHS smartphone app kept throwing up errors. -
Facebook to hire 10,000 in EU to work on metaverse
Facebook is planning to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to develop a so-called metaverse.
A metaverse is an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice on the concept. The announcement comes as Facebook deals with the fallout of a damaging scandal and faces increased calls for regulation to curb its influence. "The metaverse has the potential to help unlock access to new creative, social, and economic opportunities. And Europeans will be shaping it right from the start," Facebook said in a blog post. The new jobs being created over the next five years will include "highly specialised engineers".
