| ▲ | SubiculumCode a day ago |
| Also, while they claim it is not a cybersecurity attack (without saying how they know), these are exactly the kinds of things I would expect with the soon/maybenowww future of automated hacking agents wrecking world's cyber infrastructure. Right now, its embarrassing, when it happens to the banks, it will be something more than that. |
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| ▲ | UqWBcuFx6NV4r a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| This take is bizarre and i’m really beginning to think that a scant few people are pushing it in bad faith in an attempt to spread rumours. It has no connection with reality. Extended downtime and faffing about with distributed systems issues all happen without it being caused by an attack. |
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| ▲ | SubiculumCode a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I could and probably am was wrong, but it is not bizarre, nor was I starting rumors. Starting rumors involves a little more than that. Rather it is a natural line of speculation given the times we are in, and the fact that, now well documented, AI hacking attacks are a thing. | |
| ▲ | andruby a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | When was the last time MS had such a large outage? The timing is suspicious but could indeed be a coincidence. | | |
| ▲ | fuussssip a day ago | parent [-] | | One, coincidences happen all the time. Two, the world is always undergoing some sort of event that would make you go, "the timing is suspicious". There, distributed systems are hard. No need for conspiracy here. | | |
| ▲ | SubiculumCode 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | yeah. One coincidence. okay. Two coincidence, okay.. Three coincidence, all bets off. Yesterday Outlook. Today FAA ground stop. Tomorrow ... well we'll see. | | |
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| ▲ | OriginalPenguin a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A successful cybersecurity attack on a major email provider like Outlook or Gmail is an attack on the banks. Access to a user's email account gives attackers most or perhaps all they need to access their bank accounts. |
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| ▲ | MisterMunchkin a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yeah it’s either a hack or someone slopcoded something that has broken the servers so badly that they can’t be restored. |
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| ▲ | ifwinterco a day ago | parent [-] | | It's a huge distributed system, they're not hard to break in weird ways. Malice or gross incompetence isn't really required to break it, that's its natural state. You need high levels of competence to get it to work |
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