I agree its reasonable to speculate, given its a particularly vulnerable time in democracy with US election in 35 days and there's a lot to gain in disruption. Obviously MS/Apple/Google are all the juiciest targets for acquiring private communications, something that can (and possibly did) change the outcome of an election. I would expect this is an extremely active time in attack/defense in cybersecurity regardless of this incident.
IF this is the case, what do we think this could be? What's common among the different outages?
Google says 9/24's outage was traffic routing hardware. [1]
Microsoft says 9/28's outage was authentication error due to a bug in a service update, deployment tooling error, and a bug in rollback [2]
Apple's has affected many services including Apple ID but it isn't clear what root cause is.
IF this is the case, what do we think this could be? What's common among the different outages?
Google says 9/24's outage was traffic routing hardware. [1]
Microsoft says 9/28's outage was authentication error due to a bug in a service update, deployment tooling error, and a bug in rollback [2]
Apple's has affected many services including Apple ID but it isn't clear what root cause is.
[1] https://twitter.com/uhoelzle/status/1309313556328841216
[2] https://status.azure.com/en-us/status/history/