Global IT Outage

[cliveb]

I'm not particularly surprised that Crowdstrike deployed an update without adequate testing - the industry seems to have been taking that kind of cavalier approach for decades now.

What does floor me, though, is that so many critical systems are running on Windows. God help us all.

 

[Alan Clifford]

I'm not particularly surprised that Crowdstrike deployed an update without adequate testing - the industry seems to have been taking that kind of cavalier approach for decades now.

What does floor me, though, is that so many critical systems are running on Windows. God help us all.

Won't affect the German army, they still use 8" floppies.

 

[Alan Clifford]

You're a CEO of a mega corporation. No, you can't come into our car parks without asking and disable the company cars. Critical computer system, no problem, come on in.

 

[jim8flog]

Just think - nuclear submarines still run their computer systems on Windows 95.

 

[rulefan]

It's not Windows (whatever version) that's the real issue. It's lack of proper Firewalls.

Though this seemingly is a different issue.

 

[Alan Clifford]

Just think - nuclear submarines still run their computer systems on Windows 95.

No dangerous and fatal updates then.

 

[Alan Clifford]

It's not Windows (whatever version) that's the real issue. It's lack of proper Firewalls.

Though this seemingly is a different issue.

No checking, no testing, no responsibilty for that taken by owners of a business. It's "tech", I don't understand it.

I thought that by the time my generation ruled the world, this abrogation of responsilbilty would have ended. But I'm retired now and it hasn't.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

No mention yet of compensation???

 

[RichA]

Mental that one tiny FU by a techie in Texas can do more damage to the western world's infrastructure than a platoon of hackers in Moscow.
You're better off investing in Bic ballpoints and Pukka notepads than blue chip companies at the moment.

 

[chrisd]

Won't affect the German army, they still use 8" floppies.

Is that a euphemism?

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Mental that one tiny FU by a techie in Texas can do more damage to the western world's infrastructure than a platoon of hackers in Moscow.
You're better off investing in Bic ballpoints and Pukka notepads than blue chip companies at the moment.

Well if they didn't know how before, they do now.....

 

[Alan Clifford]

Is that a euphemism?

No. And I apologise, it's the German Navy https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...ppy-disks-working-on-emulating-a-replacement/

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Wonder who from Crowdstrike will get 5yrs in the nick for causing very significant disruption and associated cost for business, plus risk to lives…hmmm…let me try and guess…

 

[Norrin Radd]

Bloody labour government, been in power ten minutes and the world has already got in trouble.

 

[jim8flog]

One of the weird (possible) aspects of this for me was that I have a VOIP phone. I had asked somebody to phone me and they messaged via FB the phone was not working in the morning.
In the afternoon I phoned them on my mobile. About 8pm I suddenly had a missed call notification call on my phone which was the call they had tried to make in the morning.

 

[chellie]

Saw a funny on X suggesting it was an ex PM'a first day. The one that was out lived by a lettuce!

 

[Wilson]

One of the weird (possible) aspects of this for me was that I have a VOIP phone. I had asked somebody to phone me and they messaged via FB the phone was not working in the morning.
In the afternoon I phoned them on my mobile. About 8pm I suddenly had a missed call notification call on my phone which was the call they had tried to make in the morning.

I suspect the issue was related to the infrastructure the VOIP solution was running on, luckily we don’t use CrowdStrike so weren’t affected, but I’ve read that the solution was to boot each device into safe mode and delete a file - that’s potentially 000000’s of machine’s to update!

 

[PJ87]

No mention yet of compensation???

CrowdStrike's terms and conditions say most customers would just get a refund due to the massive outage, cybersecurity lawyer says

CrowdStrike and cybersecurity insurers can expect years of lawsuits after a botched update sparked a devastating outage.

www.businessinsider.com

Just read this

 

[Mudball]

S*it happens in IT.. it was a very interesting day.. all our systems were slow/down. So cancelled all Teams calls and slow on emails. Productivity zoomed . Also as it was a lovely day, people took half a day off. It was win-win

 

[Wilson]

I suspect the issue was related to the infrastructure the VOIP solution was running on, luckily we don’t use CrowdStrike so weren’t affected, but I’ve read that the solution was to boot each device into safe mode and delete a file - that’s potentially 000000’s of machine’s to update!

They’ve said 8.5m devices