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Major DNS resolvers returning "SERVFAIL" status for Facebook.com. Security experts identified the problem as a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) withdrawal of the IP address prefixes in which Facebook's Domain Name System (DNS) servers were hosted, making it impossible for users to resolve Facebook and related domain names, and reach services.
Those trying to use their favorite social media apps most likely ran into problems Tuesday morning. Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads − all owned by Meta − crashed Tuesday ...
In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
The problem could be caused by server delays due to a lot of people accessing their email at once. Usually this is resolved in just a few minutes. Be aware, if the picture was sent in an unsupported file format, such as TIFF, you may not be able to view it. Ask the sender to resend the picture using JPG or GIF file format. Check the attachments
[1] [2] This was due to the Tor Project's planned July 2021 deprecation of v2 addresses due to their inherent crackability using brute-force attacks by modern hardware that did not exist at the time of their introduction (many private keys are known to equal the same v2 address due to a hash collision). [13]
Users complained the change was unnecessary, they did not want an @facebook.com email address, and they did not receive adequate notification their profiles had been changed. [238] The change in email address was synchronized to phones due to a software bug, causing existing email addresses details to be deleted. [239]
Croom et al. found that Facebook users know only a bit more than two thirds of their "friends" on the platform, meaning that they did not know one-third of the individuals in their friend-lists. [94] This raises security and privacy issues and the project researchers alerted participants that they would better unfriend people they did not ...
Facebook alleged it was "old data" from a problem fixed in August 2019 despite the data's having been released a year and a half later only in 2021; it declined to speak with journalists, had apparently not notified regulators, called the problem "unfixable", and said it would not be advising users. [245]