A list of websites that are down

[BeyondGeography]

Link to tweet

[raccoon]

1. What's going on? Is it the end of the world as we knew it? NT

[dawg day]

14. Lol, I slept through the end of the world

CNN is back.

[hlthe2b]

2. Damn. Ebay is down. NYT is up, but loading slowly, CNN still down, Guardian (US ed) up, but

having some rendering issues. Ditto on the UK ed.

I want these a'holes doing this to be prosecuted within an inch of their lives. 60 minutes did a piece that showed the original group is now RENTING the software for others to do this!

[SergeStorms]

9. If the NSA.....

can destroy Iranian centrifuges with Stuxnet, they can surely put these assholes in a place they don't want to be.

I have a feeling we're finally going to see how much muscle intelligence communities worldwide possess, to put these malware/ransomware dipshits in their places.

Please, fuck their shit up. 👹

[irisblue]

15. cyberwar, early shots?

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Blue_Adept]

3. Twitter and disqus suffered as well

[TNNurse]

4. CNN is back up and after slow and not normal appearance,

so is NYT.

[Blue_Adept]

5. Cloud service company responsible

Link to tweet

Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday after an apparent widespread at cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and the U.K. government’s home page, could not be reached.
apne.ws/VlyKzjo

[irisblue]

6. Fastly, a cloud supporting company is under cyber attack

Link to tweet

?s=20

[48656c6c6f20]

11. There does not seem evidence at this time

To support that claim they are under cyber attack.

https://status.fastly.com/

[irisblue]

13. 7:09 am post

Link to tweet

?s=20

[48656c6c6f20]

19. Cyber attack?

I still don't see It .

[irisblue]

21. ok, YMMV. I'm not any type of network admin, are you?

edited to add, since I am not any type of computer, network admin or info technology person, I was repeating the info I received.

[48656c6c6f20]

25. Ok. Got it.

Just wasn't sure I saw a cyber attack report. And no I am a Platform Architect so I have a little IT knowledge.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. No issues here, but without ISP access last night for 4 hours

No idea if it was local. They, whoever they are, never tell us anything.

[Sympthsical]

8. Reddit seems ok

I'm guessing I missed something overnight.

[thucythucy]

10. But not Fox, Russia Today?

Probably just a coincidence, or the vagaries of the GOTI (Gods of the Internet).

[JHB]

12. Add Daily Kos and Imgur

Found that out when compiling today's TOON post.

On edit: well, they were down about an hour ago. Both seem to be back up.

[onetexan]

16. Note all the sites hit are left leaning

Hmmm im not ruling out deliberate sabotage here. I was just on amazon checking on status of an order &had no issues.

[samnsara]

17. i have been weaning myself off news shows except for an hr in the morning for local Seattle stuff

..so if Pluto TV, TCM and Solitaire Cash was still up and running then i didnt notice anything.

[OldBaldy1701E]

18. Ahhh

The usual rush to interconnect everything without giving the first thought as to whether or not it is truly a good idea. (They had to do this, of course, because there were *gasp* non rich people making money from it!) I cannot imagine that we had any thought as to this not being a great idea... oh wait...

(Important part at 3:20)

Hmm...

[Tarc]

20. All of these sites are fine now

[Silent3]

22. It's one thing to be suspicious of cyber attacks, it's quite another to speak confidently...

...as if you KNOW it MUST BE a cyber attack. That's the kind of conspiratorial thinking that's turned the Republican party into such a wreck.

As someone who works in software, who sees the messy underbelly of technology on a daily basis, it's fucking miracle this stuff keeps running as well as it does even when not under attack. Failure is always an option.

[Random Boomer]

23. Amen to that

Clicking the wrong button, pulling the wrong wire, updating the wrong component... you name it, there's a way to break it without meaning to do so. In my day I've taken down more than one website myself, although rarely for more than a few minutes while I scrambled to undo whatever I'd done that shouldn't have been done.

[getagrip_already]

24. given the complexity of web systems, it's a wonder it's ever up......

CDN (content delivery networks and what seems to have started this mess), idp's, sso's, nac, csp's, xaas, and a thousand other tender bits that need to work together deliver secure web content worldwide and with good performance.

I'm amazed it works at all. It's really just a house of cards built on a turtles back.

Companies rushing to the cloud aren't thinking clearly. It's always short term interest; never long.

[Demovictory9]

26. why?