A worldwide computer outage around Microsoft systems is grounding airlines and causing other problems. I’m hearing a Crowd Strike security update is causing the problems.
If you haven’t been affected consider yourself lucky. Crowdstrike pushed out a patch last night that basically killed companies who use their software for security all at once. The reason why it is going to be slow to get services back online is that the workstations and servers involved blue screened and the fix requires booting the computer into safe mode to delete the bad patch. We use Microsoft’s version of this program and are unaffected directly but my coworkers are b****ing about Starbucks being down today. https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/global-outage-intl-hnk/index.html Here’s what you need to know: What is behind the outage? The outage appears to stem at least partly from a software update issued by Crowdstrike, on Microsoft Windows systems. The US cybersecurity firm told customers early Friday that engineers were addressing the problem, according to an advisory viewed by CNN. The issue is specific to Falcon, which is designed to protect files saved in the cloud. How long will the outage last? Microsoft said the “underlying cause” of the outage “has been fixed,” adding that residual impact is still affecting some services. “We’re conducting additional mitigations to provide relief,” the tech company said in a post on X. Some services have been restored, but others are still grappling with the disruptions. Who has been affected? Global banks, medical services and critical infrastructure have been impacted by the outage. Medical providersincluding the UK’s National Health Service, and one of Europe’s largest health facilities in northern Germany, have been stifled by IT delays. Meanwhile, banks, broadcasting outlets and supermarkets in Australia, New Zealand and the UK were affected, including ABC News and Sky News. Airlines worst hit: Scenes emerged of flustered travelers filling the corridors of major airports on Friday, as US and other international carriers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East had to delay and cancel flights. There are around 110,000 scheduled commercial flights today worldwide, according to preliminary data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company, shared with CNN. As of 6 a.m. ET, there were 1,390 canceled flights globally. That figure is growing. International response: The White House says it is “looking into” the disruption caused by Friday morning’s cyber outages. “We’re aware of the incident and are looking into the issue and impacts,” a White House National Security Council spokesperson told CNN. Meanwhile, the UK government held an emergency meeting to discuss the outage, Downing Street said, according to the UK’s PA Media news agency.
I will answer your question: The answer is no, there is no concrete evidence. Now answer mine: Do you think rolling out a software update to every customer on the globe is competent?
It's a double edged sword. Companies were not installing updates at all and were getting hit by known exploits. Insurance companies required audits and enforcement to combat this which means updates are not deferred and if deferred audits are failed resulting in being possibly dropped. So know a company like CrowdStrike can charge exorbitant prices to enforce this but also push a patch on production to wreck the whole world.
Just recovered my PC this morning manually through command prompt. This is going to cost Billions. It's an IT nightmare. "Crowd" Strikes. What a massive fk up.
Been dealing with this for work since 1AM. The fix that CrowdStrike sent out is working on maybe 70% of our computers.
Crowdstrike has a stranglehold on the industry if one single non-malicious malfunction from them basically shuts down large portions of the world Do they even have competition?
I think so? We use Defender for Endpoint. I saw people mention ZScaler. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Gartner-2023.webp
Come on, dude. Keep that **** out of the Hangout *********************** Anyway, this is a royal ****-up by the ironically/appropriately named company.
We were previously using FireEye. It used up system resources to the point it made some computers unusable.
