“The biggest problem is fears over a cyber attack but as we saw from Fastly in the summer I would hedge my bets on that not being the case as we’re talking about one of the biggest companies in the world, but there’s always a chance.” “It could well be a human error or a software bug lurking in the shadows but whatever it is Facebook needs to do its best to mitigate the problem of causing more panic about this. He told the PA news agency: “There have been many reports and I’m struggling to find out exactly what has happened- I’m reading it could be DNS related, which means there is an issue with the connection not knowing where to go to your device. However, cyber security specialist Jake Moore said there is a “chance” the issue could be related to a cyber attack. “Notably, many organisations now define their physical infrastructure as code, but most do not apply the same level of testing rigour when they change that code, as they would when changing their core business logic.”įacebook, Instagram and Whatsapp have all been down for a number of hours. “It is reported by unidentified Facebook sources on Reddit that the network changes have also prevented engineers from remotely connecting to resolve the issues, delaying resolution. “Many of the recent high-profile outages have been caused by similar network level events.
READ MORE: LIVE updates as Facebook, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram are down in huge global blackoutĪdam Leon Smith, of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and a software testing expert, said: “The outage is caused by changes made to the Facebook network infrastructure. Security experts speculated the problem came following network changes, with the cause still unconfirmed by late Monday evening. The platforms confirmed on Twitter that they were aware of issues and were working to resolve them after thousands of people reported outages shortly before 5pm on Monday. The sites were down for several hours – with users across the globe experiencing issues getting on to them. While it's still not completely clear what happened an outage which affected WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook was down to networking issues, some experts have said.
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