BRKG Global internet outage hits major websites - [edited seems to be sorted out, cross fingers]

[Melodi]

Fastly outage brings down major websites around the world - including the UK government site

Sites affected included Reddit, eBay, Twitch, The Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, New York Times and the Evening Standard.

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Global internet outage hits major websites - including the UK government site
By Chris Robertson, news reporter
Tuesday 8 June 2021 11:43, UK

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A number of major websites have gone down around the world, including the UK government web pages.
Those logging into to gov.uk have been faced with a message saying "503 Service Unavailable".

Other sites affected include news outlets The Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, New York Times, Evening Standard, Bloomberg and Le Monde as well as Reddit, eBay and Twitch.

Fastly, a global online content delivery network (CDN), has reported an outage across its network, affecting sites which use its platform.

The US-firm has confirmed it is "currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services".

The outage appears to be affecting some services on the Sky News website and app, including our live blog and videos.

 

[Melodi]

Multiple websites hit by major internet outage

Government, media and news websites are coming back to life after a widespread outage linked to US-based cloud company Fastly.

www.rte.ie

Multiple media websites report outages
Updated / Tuesday, 8 Jun 2021 11:44

New York Times among the websites affected

Multiple outages hit social media, government, and news websites across the globe this morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.

Fastly said it was investigating "the potential impact to performance with our CDN services," according to its website.

Most of Fastly's coverage areas were facing "Degraded Performance", the website showed.

Separately, Amazon.com Inc's retail website also seemed to be down. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.

Nearly 21,000 Reddit users reported issues with the social media platform, while more than 2,000 users reported problems with Amazon, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.

Amazon's Twitch was also experiencing an outage, according to Downdetector's website.

Websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times and Bloomberg News also faced outages.

The CEO of a cybersecurity service provider said it appears to be a distributed denial of server attack.

Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Claire Byrne, Ronan Murphy from Smarttech247 said attacks of this kind are now happening at an unprecedented scale.

 

[Melodi]

Websites begin to work again after major breakage

Cloud computing provider Fastly, which was behind the problems, said it was implementing a fix.

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Huge parts of internet currently offline
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A number of leading websites are currently not working, including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch.

The UK government website - gov.uk - is also down as are the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New York Times.

Affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable".

Early reports suggested it could be related to Fastly, a cloud computing provider, which underpins a lot of major websites.

Fastly said it was looking into problems with its global content delivery network (CDN).

In an error message posted just before 11am BST Fastly said it was "currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services."

It has not yet provided a formal statement.

 

[Melodi]

Huge parts of the internet facing outages

AMAZON.COM-OUTAGES/ (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-Huge parts of the internet facing outages

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Huge parts of the internet facing outages
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Tuesday, 8 June 2021 10:37 GMT
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June 8 (Reuters) - Multiple outages hit websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, affecting news websites and social media platforms.

Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the sites.

Separately, Amazon.com Inc's retail website also seemed to face an outage. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.

Leading websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times and Bloomberg News were down.

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[Melodi]

This seems to be spreading, I just warned my housemate that if we lose the net and/or she and her engineering team can't get some websites this is why.

Fastly Says It Fixed Outage That Took Down Swath of Internet

Websites across the internet were temporarily unavailable on Tuesday, including the New York Times, Bloomberg News, Reddit Inc., and the U.K. government, after services from content-delivery network Fastly Inc. went down.

www.bloomberg.com

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Website Outage Hits Reddit, News, U.K. Government Pages
By Amy Thomson and Nate Lanxon
June 8, 2021, 11:28 AM GMT+1

Websites across the internet were unavailable on Tuesday, including the New York Times, Bloomberg News, Reddit, and the U.K. government, after services from content-delivery network Fastly Inc. went down.

Fastly runs a content delivery network that pushes data quickly around the internet so businesses can help consumers shop online or watch videos on apps and websites. The company’s website said that it was investigating a performance issue around 11 a.m. U.K. time.

Not all of its customers appeared to be affected and several websites restored service relatively quickly. Shopify and Stripe’s websites were available on Tuesday.

A representative for Fastly didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Fastly is one of a number of high-level website and application hosting services that large enterprises use to serve content to millions of users simultaneously. Rather than hosting all website content on a single set of servers in one location, Fastly puts cloud infrastructure in dozens of locations to let people download from a server closest to them.

— With assistance by Natalia Drozdiak

 

[Melodi]

Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage

The online world has received a lesson on how vital a small number of behind-the-scenes companies have become to running the internet.

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Swaths of internet down, outage at cloud company Fastly
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FILE - In this Thursday, May 6, 2021 file photo, a sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, in New York. Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday June 8, 2021, after an apparent widespread outage 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. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

LONDON (AP) — Numerous websites were unavailable Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at the cloud service company Fastly.

Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch, Reddit, and the U.K. government’s home page, could not be reached.

San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 1000 GMT. It said in repeated updates on its website that it was “continuing to investigate the issue.”

Visitors trying to access CNN.com got a message that said: “Fastly error: unknown domain: cnn.com.” Attempts to access the Financial Times website turned up a similar message while visits to the New York Times and U.K. government’s gov.uk site returned an “Error 503 Service Unavailable” message, along with the line “Varnish cache server,” which is a technology that Fastly is built on.

Down Detector, which tracks internet outages, said: “Reports indicate there may be a widespread outage at Fastly, which may be impacting your service.”

 

[Melodi]

I hope this really is fixed, it sounds like they may have found the problem and are "working on it" - we shall see, hopefully, this will stop soon, a number of my usual sites went offline in the last half-hour.

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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A Number Of Websites Down In Massive Internet Outage

BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, JUN 08, 2021 - 06:19 AM
Update (0708ET): Fastly issued a new update that reads: "The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return."

So problem fixed?
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Update (0650ET): Fastly has identified the issues and a fix is being implemented.

How long until the Russians are blamed?
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Update (0646ET): Many websites are down this morning due to a CDN failure. The issue appears to be originating at the Fastly CDN network. We listed websites currently experiencing problems in an earlier update, such as Reddit, Twitch, PayPal, etc...
According to Bloomberg, the Fastly CDN (content delivery network) network experienced issues around 11:00 local time in the UK that disrupted internet data worldwide, preventing people from writing on forums, shopping online, watching videos, and using apps and websites.
"Fastly is one of a number of high-level website and application hosting services that large enterprises use to serve content to millions of users simultaneously. Rather than hosting all website content on a single set of servers in one location, Fastly puts cloud infrastructure in dozens of locations to let people download from a server closest to them," Bloomberg said.
Failures are rare, but when they do happen, there's widespread impact.
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Downdetector users report Reddit is experiencing issues and or outages nationwide. Besides Reddit, there are other websites that are down.

A search for "Reddit.com" comes up with "Error 503 Service Unavailable"

Problems at Reddit began around 0600 ET.

Downdector also reports multiple websites are down.

"Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, and news outlets CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times, BBC, Financial Times are currently facing an outage. A glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, is thought to be the reason, according to a product manager at Financial Times. Fastly has confirmed it’s facing an outage on its status website," said TechCrunch.

Here's what people on Twitter are saying:

• @metinferatii · 13m A lot of services are down including @reddit too, is the #AWS router down or?
• @StevenAgullo · 14m So.. Github and twitter not working properly, stackoverflow, reddit and twitch are down, is there a massive cyberattack going on right now or something?
• @downZindabad · 14m Replying to @suobset and @verge It's a problem with a major CDN, tons of sites are down. Reddit for example

E-mini S&P500 futures have slumped on the news.

This is terrible news for wallstreetbets traders waking up Tuesday morning, unable to pump meme stocks like AMC and GME.

 

[Melodi]

Nothing to see here, no questions about putting "everything on the cloud," nope all is well...for now...

Websites begin to work again after major breakage

Cloud computing provider Fastly, which was behind the problems, said it was implementing a fix.

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Websites begin to work again after major breakage
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A number of leading websites stopped working for a time on Tuesday, including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch.

The UK government website - gov.uk - was also down as were the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New York Times.

Affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable".

Cloud computing provider Fastly, which underpins a lot of major websites, appeared to be behind the problems.

The firm said it was looking into issues with its global content delivery network (CDN) and was implementing a fix. Websites were also beginning to be restored.

Fastly runs what is known as an "edge cloud", which is designed to speed up loading times for websites, as well as protect them from denial-of-service attacks and help them when traffic is peaking.

It currently looks as if the problems are localised, so only affecting specific locations across Europe and the US.

Similar problems have affected Amazon Web Services, another huge cloud computing firm, in the past.

It has led some to question the wisdom of having so much internet infrastructure is in the hands of a few companies, meaning when something goes wrong it causing mass disruption.

Jake Moore, a cyber-specialist at security firm ESET said: "This highlights the importance and significance of these vast hosting companies and what they represent."

The issues began at around 11am BST and lasted for an hour. Other affected websites included CNN and streaming sites Twitch and Hulu. The outage also broke some parts of services, including Twitter's emojis.

 

[Melodi]

Major media and government websites live again after outage across several countries

Fastly, one of the world’s major content delivery networks, said a “fix has been applied” after an outage across its global network.

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Fastly, one of the world’s major content delivery networks, said a “fix has been applied” after an outage across its global network.
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Outage on the UK government website this morning.
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A NUMBER OF media and government websites are live again after they stopped working this morning in an outage that affected sites across several countries.

Amazon, Reddit and Pinterest experienced outages along with news sites including the Irish Times, BBC and the Guardian, which are now accessible again.

The Irish government website – gov.ie – continued working as normal.

Access to the UK Government website – gov.uk – is now working, after previously giving the error message “Error 503 Service Unavailable”.

The outage appeared to have been sparked by an issue with a content delivery network (CDN), a system used to host websites and their content on the internet and serve it to users.

The Guardian’s UK Technology Editor Alex Hern shared updates on the website’s status on Twitter, which has now been converted to a liveblog on the Guardian site.


Source: alex hern/Twitter

Fastly, one of the world’s major CDNs, reported a major outage across its global network, which is believed to have caused the outage.

The company offers services such as speeding up loading times for websites, protect them from denial-of-service cyberattacks and helping them deal with bursts of traffic in order to stay online and stable.

The US-firm said the “issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented” at 11.44am Irish time.


It added just before midday: “The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.”


Source: Fastly/Twitter

Service monitoring website Down Detector registered a spike in reports of outages of Amazon’s cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services.
Additional reporting by Press Association and Lauren Boland


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[WalknTrot]

Nothing out of the ordinary.

It's gonna happen that these hacker putzes will get through to something big eventually. A matter of time. Be ready to flip on the radio again for your news.

I differentiate between "Russians" and "Russian hackers". Sure, the gov't over there probably does little to close them down, but I do doubt that the ransom-ware-like activity is gov't sanctioned, well, at least no more or less gov't sanctioned then our own Mafia or dark-web hacker brigade is gov't sanctioned.

 

[emiliozapata]

seeing what sites were down its a shame that they got fixed

 

[Doat]

Someone or some group is showing off there skills. How about a U.S. Wide Web and disconnect from the WWW. As usual just a shrug.

 

[Plain Jane]

The Conservative Treehouse had an article yesterday that makes me wonder about these hacks.

DOJ Says it Seized $2.3 Million in Bitcoin from Colonial Pipeline Hackers - The Last Refuge

..."approximately 63.7 bitcoins, representing the proceeds of the victim’s ransom payment, had been transferred to a specific address, for which the FBI has the “private key"...

theconservativetreehouse.com

DOJ Says it Seized $2.3 Million in Bitcoin from Colonial Pipeline Hackers
June 7, 2021 | Sundance | 203 Comments
Sketchy doesn’t begin to describe this DOJ narrative.

According to their press release the DOJ seized 63.7 Bitcoin (digital currency) through accessing a server in North Carolina used to enter the Bitcoin wallet password of the original hackers. However, the DOJ still claims the “hackers” were sophisticated Russian operatives. Meaning the “Russian Hackers” were so sophisticated they could hack a major gas pipeline, but not sophisticated enough to protect their wallet and hosted it online on a US based server?

DOJ […] approximately 63.7 bitcoins, representing the proceeds of the victim’s ransom payment, had been transferred to a specific address, for which the FBI has the “private key,” or the rough equivalent of a password needed to access assets accessible from the specific Bitcoin address. (read more)
Doesn’t this seem like either the private key wasn’t private, or the FBI was the original hacker of the pipeline?
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced that it has seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. These funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide, which had targeted Colonial Pipeline, resulting in critical infrastructure being taken out of operation. The seizure warrant was authorized earlier today by the Honorable Laurel Beeler, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California.

“Following the money remains one of the most basic, yet powerful tools we have,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco for the U.S. Department of Justice. “Ransom payments are the fuel that propels the digital extortion engine, and today’s announcement demonstrates that the United States will use all available tools to make these attacks more costly and less profitable for criminal enterprises. We will continue to target the entire ransomware ecosystem to disrupt and deter these attacks. Today’s announcements also demonstrate the value of early notification to law enforcement; we thank Colonial Pipeline for quickly notifying the FBI when they learned that they were targeted by DarkSide.”
“There is no place beyond the reach of the FBI to conceal illicit funds that will prevent us from imposing risk and consequences upon malicious cyber actors,” said FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate. “We will continue to use all of our available resources and leverage our domestic and international partnerships to disrupt ransomware attacks and protect our private sector partners and the American public.” (full press release)

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[alpha]

Well, by golly, there goes all that confidence in the "security" of digital currencies!

 

[annieosage]

Interesting. Probably unrelated but since our offices closed here in Las Vegas, our servers are now housed in L.A. and with a different internet company. We couldn't work yesterday at all because there was some kind of issue and no one could connect remotely. This was from out IT guy (note the underlined red portion which I thought was strange):

The connection problems we are experiencing are due to a problem on the Internet. The tables that are used by Internet providers regarding the networks under their control are in error.

Some internet provider is incorrectly telling the world that our IP addresses are a part of their network. Our internet provider, **********, is working to find where the error is coming from and correct it. However, this may take a while to fix since it’s not a problem entirely under their control.

The bottom line is that we have to wait until they find the problem and fix it. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do to get everyone connected until that happens.

I will be pestering *********** every hour or so until they either fix the issue or give us a workaround.

I’ll let everyone know once things are working again. In the meantime I’m afraid we’re just going to have to deal with the system being inaccessible. I’m sorry to say that but this is completely out of our control at the moment. I’ll apply as much pressure as I can in the meantime.

We are small beans compared to the sites mentioned in the article but I thought it was possibly more than a coincidence.

 

[Kris Gandillon]

Interesting. Probably unrelated but since our offices closed here in Las Vegas, our servers are now housed in L.A. and with a different internet company. We couldn't work yesterday at all because there was some kind of issue and no one could connect remotely. This was from out IT guy (note the underlined red portion which I thought was strange):

The connection problems we are experiencing are due to a problem on the Internet. The tables that are used by Internet providers regarding the networks under their control are in error.

Some internet provider is incorrectly telling the world that our IP addresses are a part of their network. Our internet provider, **********, is working to find where the error is coming from and correct it. However, this may take a while to fix since it’s not a problem entirely under their control.

The bottom line is that we have to wait until they find the problem and fix it. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do to get everyone connected until that happens.

I will be pestering *********** every hour or so until they either fix the issue or give us a workaround.

I’ll let everyone know once things are working again. In the meantime I’m afraid we’re just going to have to deal with the system being inaccessible. I’m sorry to say that but this is completely out of our control at the moment. I’ll apply as much pressure as I can in the meantime.

We are small beans compared to the sites mentioned in the article but I thought it was possibly more than a coincidence.

Go read how BGP works and you will understand why "it's not a problem entirely under their control".

Border Gateway Protocol - Wikipedia

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[desert_fox]

Well, by golly, there goes all that confidence in the "security" of digital currencies!

Those who believe in the digital currency and invested deeply will never lose confidence in them. Same as how millions still see the dollar as something of worth.

 

[Publius]

Sounds like to many eggs in the same basket.

 

[Kris Gandillon]

Sounds like to many eggs in the same basket.

There is actually 4 major baskets in this market: Akamai, Limelight, Fastly and Cloudflare.

Read about what a CDN is and why they are critical to how the Internet performs.

Comprehensive Analysis Of Cloudflare Vs. Fastly: Which Stock Is Worth Buying?

Read to find the industry risks faced by Cloudfare and Fastly from major cloud providers such as Amazon and Microsoft including legacy CDN providers such as Akamai and Limelight.

seekingalpha.com

 

[annieosage]

Go read how BGP works and you will understand why "it's not a problem entirely under their control".

Border Gateway Protocol - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thanks but that could be written in another language for as much as I understood LOL

 

[intothatgoodnight]

Interesting. Probably unrelated but since our offices closed here in Las Vegas, our servers are now housed in L.A. and with a different internet company. We couldn't work yesterday at all because there was some kind of issue and no one could connect remotely. This was from out IT guy (note the underlined red portion which I thought was strange):

The connection problems we are experiencing are due to a problem on the Internet. The tables that are used by Internet providers regarding the networks under their control are in error.

Some internet provider is incorrectly telling the world that our IP addresses are a part of their network. Our internet provider, **********, is working to find where the error is coming from and correct it. However, this may take a while to fix since it’s not a problem entirely under their control.

The bottom line is that we have to wait until they find the problem and fix it. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do to get everyone connected until that happens.

I will be pestering *********** every hour or so until they either fix the issue or give us a workaround.

I’ll let everyone know once things are working again. In the meantime I’m afraid we’re just going to have to deal with the system being inaccessible. I’m sorry to say that but this is completely out of our control at the moment. I’ll apply as much pressure as I can in the meantime.

We are small beans compared to the sites mentioned in the article but I thought it was possibly more than a coincidence.

Regarding red comment - your IT folks are referring to the Domain Naming System (DNS), which is an international locating system that matches a website name with a specific IP "street address." Think of the DNS as knowing a specific name of a business, and ALSO knowing the one-of-a-kind actual street address where that business "name" is located - anywhere on the globe.

The assigning of specific and unique IP addresses to specific names is controlled/doled out by folks at the top of our internet system, whose job it is to assign, associate and track this specific info. Large corporations/IT operations (Google, Amazon, others) will be assigned one or mores blocks of IP numbers - those large operations will then used those assigned blocks of IP numbers as their needs dictate.

The international DNS system has been somehow, apparently, corrupted - this is out of the control of everyone - Goggle and Amazon and other bigs - and will be fixed by our national security elements, in conjunction with those who control the master DNS IP/name table assignments/listings.

Could have been a hack, could have been a malfunctioning regional/international router - could have been the clandestine bigs tweaking for unknown reasons - think about this as if Google Maps was suddenly showing your name associated with a completely incorrect street address/map view/street view, and all of your friends began showing up at that bogus street address, looking for you - current residents have no idea who you are, or why - suddenly - your friends are all showing up at their (incorrect) address.

Clear as mud?


intothegoodnight

 

[annieosage]

Could have been a hack, could have been a malfunctioning regional/international router - could have been the clandestine bigs tweaking for unknown reasons - think about this as if Google Maps was suddenly showing your name associated with a completely incorrect street address/map view/street view, and all of your friends began showing up at that bogus street address, looking for you - current residents have no idea who you are, or why - suddenly - your friends are all showing up at their (incorrect) address.

Clear as mud?


intothegoodnight

Thank you actually this makes sense

 

[packyderms_wife]

Someone or some group is showing off there skills. How about a U.S. Wide Web and disconnect from the WWW. As usual just a shrug.

That was last year when Amazon's server farms were under attack.