FACEBOOK UNDER ATTACK

Social media sites Facebook and Instagram are down for users around the world, with Facebook taking to Twitter to assure users it is not because of a cyber-attack. With Facebook’s recent history of deception, you can be sure of one thing…this is an attack, people! But do not call the police. They can’t help.

Overnight, in the early morning hours (CHamorro Standard), Guam residents began to experience difficulties accessing their Facebook accounts. The global outage quickly spread, crashing Facebook, Fb Messenger, Instagram, and causing problems with WhatsApp. Many users are experiencing total blackouts.

The digital bug first struck shortly after noon, Eastern Standard time, yesterday, primarily striking mostly urban areas across the US and Europe, and parts of South America. The impact has since gone global with Guam residents now in the midst of digital withdrawal as the viral outage expands.

Despite denials from Facebook, dark web sites claim this is a massive DDoS attack. “DDoS”stands for “distributed denial-of-service,” and is an attack that occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, such as Facebook’s servers.

Facebook was forced to go to Twitter to deny the speculation and appeal to users for patience. Don’t believe them. This is an attack, people!

The largest DDoS attack in history hit GitHub early Wednesday, Feb 18, 2018, around 12:15 PM EST. It was 1.35 terabytes. That’s the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. And it didn’t use a botnet. The Facebook attack may be even bigger, but the company refuses to admit it is under attack.

The empire of Zuckerberg tried to assure users through Twitter that Facebook geeks are working on the problem; but 6 hours after flatlining globally most Facebook accounts remain offline and under the control of the hackers.

WhatsApp — also owned by Facebook — has been hit by spotty service issues as well, though it does not appear to have been affected as hard as the other apps.

Facebook’s issues came off the back of users encountering a number of problems yesterday trying to access Google’s YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive services.

According to an outage heat map, it appeared that users in the American East Coast, Central Europe and Japan were the most severely affected.

Meanwhile, the Mountainview heavyweight wasn’t the only company hit with downtime drama. Amazon Web Services and GitHub reported “unidentified” struggles with technical difficulties. No one wants to say whether the events are connected.

The Cyber Wars Begin, Folks!

Guam residents are strongly urged to not call the police for help.