Facebook Explains Tuesday App Outage
This past Tuesday, several Facebook applications were erroneously disabled, as were many developer accounts. Facebook explained what happened Thursday, saying that it was too aggressive with its identification of a pattern that identified malicious apps, and that legitimate apps and developers were mistakenly caught in the dragnet.
This past Tuesday, several Facebook applications were erroneously disabled, as were many developer accounts. Facebook explained what happened Thursday, saying that it was too aggressive with its identification of a pattern that identified malicious apps, and that legitimate apps and developers were mistakenly caught in the dragnet.
Facebook Software Engineer Eugene Zarakhovsky detailed the reasons for the error and steps the social network is taken to prevent its reoccurrence in a post on the developer blog:
The Facebook platform and our users are constantly under attack from malicious apps, and we have many automated systems to protect the platform and our users.
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