Global IT Outage

Cyber security company CrowdStrike has admitted to being responsible for the error that hit Microsoft 365 apps and operating systems and said a 'fix has been deployed'. The American firm said it was caused by a 'defect found in a single content update' and insisted the issue 'was not a security incident or cyberattack'.

Technology experts have said the disruption is at the scale expected from Y2K or the 'Millennium Bug', a computer programming shortcut that was forecast to cause chaos as the year changed from 1999 to 2000 but never materialised.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ls-knocked-offline-massive-global-crisis.html
 
Social Security office sent staff home nationwide today.

States of North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia unable to access drivers license records. Good day to test the high-end speed of your car on the interstate.
 
LOL. Not where I work. Over 400 calls internally LOL. Poor IT guys. Had no idea we had so much stuff so reliant on MS and Crowdstrike. All sorts of weird shit

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CrowdStrike -- an American cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud workload protection, threat intelligence and cyberattack response services -- said the outage is not a due to a cyber attack; it was caused by a software issue that has been identified and a fix had been deployed.

Some systems can be fixed and back up and running immediately -- but for others it "could be hours, could be a bit longer" before everything is back up and running, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told CNBC in an on-air interview. For some customers, it will take more than rebooting systems to work through fixes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...tp&cvid=e5e5186e9d9944b9bfc3f5474b525103&ei=4

seems there needs to be a better way of doing things that doesn't rely on one system protecting so much and therefore all vulnerable at the same time
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...tp&cvid=e5e5186e9d9944b9bfc3f5474b525103&ei=4

seems there needs to be a better way of doing things that doesn't rely on one system protecting so much and therefore all vulnerable at the same time
The problem is that the software is the best on the market at its job. You'd have to get people to buy inferior products to solve the issue, which is also counterproductive.

I think crowdstrike needs to review its release channels and refine their QA
 
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