Unsafe sites

[Skub]

Since the recent,worldwide IT woes afflicting the likes of F/B,I'm having difficulty accessing some sites. I've tried with Safari,Opera and Chrome,but no joy on any of them. Usually on the 'unsafe' option the browser will let you proceed,on some others it won't even load,or if it does,it'll all to cock/script.

I've done all the usual clearing cookies,etc but it made no difference. Some of the sites have resumed normality,so is it just a case of waiting for the rest?

[Rockburner]

Since the recent,worldwide IT woes afflicting the likes of F/B,I'm having difficulty accessing some sites. I've tried with Safari,Opera and Chrome,but no joy on any of them. Usually on the 'unsafe' option the browser will let you proceed,on some others it won't even load,or if it does,it'll all to cock/script.

I've done all the usual clearing cookies,etc but it made no difference. Some of the sites have resumed normality,so is it just a case of waiting for the rest?

The issue that a lot of web-servers have, behind the scenes, not kept 'quite' up to date with their software updating and patching.
Part of this 'keeping up to date' is keeping a list of 'security certificates' on the server.
These certificates are used by the software that allows one server to talk to another.
If the certificates are not kept up to date, then the software on one server can't talk to another because there's a lot of 'checking' of the certificates whenever one server talks to another (to prevent data being intercepted in transit).

The current issue is that one of the services providing these certificates has had some of it's own internal certificates themselves become 'out-of-date' (due to another provider of software not keeping it's certificates out of date), and so the whole house of cards has partially collapsed and people are now scrambling around trying to get things sorted out.

The problem for a lot of systems is that if you patch a piece of internal software (say the one of the software programs that helps to hosts your website), and do NOT check it thoroughly, you don't know what is going to break until it breaks. Sometimes the developers of a piece of softwarwe wil almost completely change the way it is interacted with when they bring out a new major version (it won't be COMPLETELY different, but it may be significantly different enough to break things). The upshot of that is that it takes time to update your software, especially if you don't have automated testing setup to some degree or other.

I think the Facebook estate issues were something else entirely, and entirely within that estate (ie it only affected FB/Instagram/WhatsApp and a few other services, not the internet as a whole).

[Skub]

Ta RB.

Seems like there's nothing I can do in the meantime then,apart from wait.