Global availability incident: Facebook.
Meta confirmed service disruptions impacting account access, alongside high disruptions reported in Ad Manager and business APIs.
Operational characteristics:
• Sudden spike in user reports (~4:15 PM ET)
• Global impact footprint
• No immediate root cause transparency
• Service restoration within ~2 hours
Availability is a security pillar — and outages expose:
- Centralization risk
- Cascading dependency exposure
- Business continuity gaps
- API reliance vulnerabilities

For security and reliability engineers:
Are social platforms integrated into your risk register and DR modeling?

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/facebook-hit-with-worldwide-outage-stating-accounts-are-unavailable/

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Microsoft has resolved an Exchange Online incident that intermittently disrupted IMAP4 mailbox access due to an authentication configuration issue.

While not security-related, incidents like this can impact monitoring, alerting, and legacy mail workflows that still depend on IMAP.

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Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-exchange-online-outage-blocks-access-to-mailboxes-via-imap4/

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