AOL outages and service status in Franklin, Massachusetts

Problems in the last 24 hours in Franklin, Massachusetts

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Franklin, Massachusetts and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports

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  Zubiqo (@zubiqo) reported 9 minutes ago

  PortSwigger reveals new CSS attack chains breaking webmail defenses to steal passwords and tokens. The techniques compromise major platforms including Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail. One Outlook and Firefox attack chain spoofs a Microsoft sign-in screen to capture typed passwords in real-time. A Yahoo and AOL vulnerability allows attackers to reconstruct a 12-character Medium login token to hijack accounts. The research remains strictly proof-of-concept with no active malicious exploitation reported as of August 8. Security teams can't keep relying on sanitizers to block CSS when browsers and AI assistants inherently trust the interface context.

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  Xavier Rivera (@XavierRiveraX) reported 14 minutes ago

  PortSwigger's Gareth Heyes demonstrated CSS/HTML sanitizer-bypass attacks against 6 major webmail providers at Black Hat USA 2026, letting content inside an email escape the message boundary and hit the trusted interface: - Outlook (+Firefox): label-jacking spoofs a Microsoft sign-in screen, captures the typed password - Gmail: image-set() bypass chained with prompt injection via Claude Cowork's Gmail connector to steal a Slack token - Yahoo/AOL: paste-race bug exposes a 12-character Medium login token - Fastmail: two CSS mutation bugs plus a UI-hijacking flaw, since fixed - Proton Mail: proxy bypass that leaked recipient IPs, patched on retest Public PoCs are still live. Guidance: isolate HTML email in sandboxed iframes, restrict CSS.

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  Peter Wharton (@PeterVWha) reported 14 minutes ago

  @SandraB81459197 @braves2430 Full house then👏👏 I only got 17 even tho I’m probably a few years older Never bothered buying a Walkman or using AOL (used an English provider) nor a paper mat

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  Sean 🇨🇦 (@CsbWorlds) reported 14 minutes ago

  @TimothyImholt The count for me is 19. Never had an AOL address, and yes, I am GenX.

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  Ramp Monsters (@RampMonsters) reported 17 minutes ago

  @HurricaneStiz I’m old and washed now. Around 2000 on AOL college football chat I was dominating the nerds so bad. 2001 was insane. So many stars in NFL. It was a scrolling cascading chat. Twitter was too. First tweets you texted a phone number then waited for your tweet to scroll by.

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  𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗪𝗼𝗹𝗳𝟴𝟬𝘀 (@DarkWolf80s) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Wild_Nefari @Hulex My only reason for discord usage is for streaming & community build it has far better tools for that. TG I use it for virtually anything. But damn I do miss the days of MIRC or AOL cause when you send a file it doesn’t matter how big it was.

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  Teafor2 (@GTeafor2) reported 20 minutes ago

  @EvadneFirenze @MDymore @AOL I think you are correct and they turned her down.

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  VibeDraft (@vibedraft_app) reported 25 minutes ago

  spent the morning mapping the 90s internet buildout against the ai era, layer by layer. the rhyme is almost suspicious. 1. the protocol layer. tcp/ip and http were deliberately dumb, open, and free. they beat richer closed rivals (aol, gopher) on adoption, not capability. gopher died from a licensing announcement, not even enforcement. mcp is running the same play: simple, open since late 2024, adopted by every rival lab within months. the lesson transfers: protocols stay dominant only while they stay credibly free. 2. picks and shovels. cisco sold the routers of the boom and became the most valuable company on earth in march 2000. then the buildout paused and the stock took 25 years to reclaim its peak. shovel revenue is a derivative of capex sentiment, not end-user value. nvidia is playing the same role beat for beat, including the most-valuable-company milestone. 3. the capability curve. every app category had a modem speed where it became viable. text at 2400 baud, images at 14.4k, e-commerce at 28.8, napster at 56k. context windows, tool-use reliability, and cost per token are the new baud rates. the question that printed money in 1994 still works: what just became viable this year that wasn't last year? 4. the trust layer. this is the interesting one. in 1994 the web was read-only and nobody would type a credit card into it. then four boring primitives shipped almost at once: cookies (1994, state), ssl + verisign (1995, identity), online payments (netmarket 1994, paypal 1998), and reputation scores (ebay 1995). a controlled experiment later showed ebay's feedback scores earned sellers 8.1% higher willingness to pay. trust primitives, not storefronts, were the moats. agents in 2026: no portable memory, identity duct-taped with api keys, no native machine payments, and tool trust decided by github stars and vibes. we are standing in 1994 of this layer. all four are unclaimed. 5. discovery. yahoo hand-curated a directory. it broke at scale. altavista indexed what pages said about themselves. it got spammed. google won by mining a signal the web deposited as a side effect: links as votes. mcp registries today are the yahoo phase. the pagerank of agents, invocations as votes, does not exist yet. the internet's biggest fortunes came from the boring layer, built in the four years after the protocol went open. mcp went open 20 months ago. the clock is running.

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  Jacob Jackson (@ChangeJatelo) reported 27 minutes ago

  @citizentvkenya Sorry to say but Prof has gone AOL for too long genuinely focusing on Kisumu County which is full of insecurity though. I have no personal problem with Prof but Vision 2060 can only be real if we do the basics right.

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  Magimetal👨‍💻🤖 (@MagiMetal) reported 28 minutes ago

  @araseb_ Geocities and AOL Instant Messenger hands down. Really where I got started with code