Facebook is down!

As of approx. October 6, 12:30 AM EST GMT -5 Facebook HTTP services seemed to have gone down.

Ping tests were successful during this time, however, attempts to load the website resulted in timeouts.

More updates tomorrow morning after some official announcements have been made. My initial speculation is botnet and/or DoS attack but this is very preliminary.

Update 12:49 AM EST GMT -5

Looks like downrightnow.com is down as well…

Update 10:15 AM EST GMT -5

Some other sites also seem to have gone down, reddit, apple store and digg among others.

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About Ronnie Diaz

Ronnie Diaz is a software engineer and tech consultant. Ronnie started his career in front-end and back-end development for companies in ecommerce, service industries and remote education. This work transitioned from traditional desktop client-server applications through early cloud development. Software included human resource management and service technician workflows, online retail e-commerce and electronic ordering and fulfillment, IVR customer relational systems, and video streaming remote learning SCORM web applications. Hands on server experience and software performance optimization led to creation of a startup business focused on collocated data center services and continued experience with video streaming hardware and software. This led to a career in Amazon Prime Video where Ronnie is currently employed, building software and systems which stream live sports and events for millions of viewers around the world.

Posted on October 5, 2010, in General Discussion, Security & Cryptography and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.

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