IT pede here in networking, not nearly on the level of FB though...from what I can see from sources, this isn't an issue with the BGP being hijacked or rerouted like can happen sometimes. It looks like as you said, the records have been completely withdrawn. If that's the case, there's only a couple things I can think of that caused that to happen:
There is some sort of hellish attack specifically targeting FB that went on using a method that no one's aware of yet. If this is the case then shit is scary as hell as it means that someone has basically found a "kill switch" for large Internet services.
Someone super high up at FB went rogue and pulled the routing tables.
Someone with just-high-enough levels of access to their system pushed out an update that is literally the perfect storm of stupid that cascaded and took down their entire networks. If this is the case then FB has a gaping design hole bigger than the one in between a Vegas hooker's legs and should never be trusted for anything again.
Yep. The only way that it could be "hacking" isn't by attacking BGP like some people are claiming. Someone would either have to have found a way to breach FB so badly that they have full control of the most critical part of their infrastructure and take it down from inside (not likely). Or they'd have to have control of either the BGP provider or the global root servers. Slightly more likely I suppose but way more scary.
Couldn’t say, haven’t been monitoring threatmaps. Doesn’t fit their MO in my opinion. Usually them and China like DDoSing stuff to death. Methinks if this is an external attack it’d have to be extremely precise with a high likelihood of someone internal being involved to assist.
IT pede here in networking, not nearly on the level of FB though...from what I can see from sources, this isn't an issue with the BGP being hijacked or rerouted like can happen sometimes. It looks like as you said, the records have been completely withdrawn. If that's the case, there's only a couple things I can think of that caused that to happen:
There is some sort of hellish attack specifically targeting FB that went on using a method that no one's aware of yet. If this is the case then shit is scary as hell as it means that someone has basically found a "kill switch" for large Internet services.
Someone super high up at FB went rogue and pulled the routing tables.
Someone with just-high-enough levels of access to their system pushed out an update that is literally the perfect storm of stupid that cascaded and took down their entire networks. If this is the case then FB has a gaping design hole bigger than the one in between a Vegas hooker's legs and should never be trusted for anything again.
IS HAPPENING.
That's all I can think of.
For those saying hacking:
Yep. The only way that it could be "hacking" isn't by attacking BGP like some people are claiming. Someone would either have to have found a way to breach FB so badly that they have full control of the most critical part of their infrastructure and take it down from inside (not likely). Or they'd have to have control of either the BGP provider or the global root servers. Slightly more likely I suppose but way more scary.
You think maybe Russia could be behind this? They were warning Fakebook last week about CP being on their network.
Couldn’t say, haven’t been monitoring threatmaps. Doesn’t fit their MO in my opinion. Usually them and China like DDoSing stuff to death. Methinks if this is an external attack it’d have to be extremely precise with a high likelihood of someone internal being involved to assist.