Facebook has had a nightmare week. So what exactly happened, and is it finally time to quit the data-hungry social network?
In this case, the timing of the outage was coincidental: Facebook wasn’t hacked, as ’ Davey Winder explains on this week’s Straight Talking Cyber: “Essentially, Facebook updated a configuration file that tells its routers how to communicate with the internet—something called BGP . They made a mistake in the configuration file, and that error propagated out and affected their DNS—it effectively told the internet that Facebook doesn’t exist anymore: ‘Our servers don’t exist, go away.
But the problem was the integrated ecosystem that Facebook has—which is why WhatsApp and Instagram went down too—because everything relies on Facebook’s infrastructure, including its security. “The people that would need to amend and correct the configuration fie couldn’t get authenticated because Facebook was down,” Winder explains.The issue shows just how finely balanced technical infrastructure is, says Sean Wright, SME security lead at Immersive Labs.
All the dialogue about Facebook this week has been entirely negative and as a result it’s been an incredibly costly week for the social network. Facebook’s. The ad business is going badly for the social network too. Being offline for five hours on Monday left many businesses unable to operate, and resulted in more lost revenue for its advertisers.
Apple’s new privacy features have also been hitting Facebook hard. The company admitted in a recent blog that it was no longer able to accurately measure ad campaigns without the identifier for advertisers , which Apple users are increasingly blocking as part of the new Yet people are becoming more aware of their privacy, and the data-hungry habits of Facebook. Some people are already deleting their accounts—although on paper, Facebook user numbers aren’t going down.
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