A raft of global institutions - including major banks, media outlets and airlines - have reported a mass IT outage, affecting their ability to offer services.
Several airlines have grounded flights around the world and many more are reporting delays.
The US state of Alaska has warned its emergency services are affected, supermarkets in Australia have been crippled, and media outlets in several countries have been left scrambling as systems failed, with Sky News in the UK temporarily forced off air.
The cause of the outage is unclear, but many of those impacted have linked it to Microsoft PC operating systems.
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âThis is not a security incident or cyberattack.â
gasp What will USians do without their 24/7 feed of hype, hysteria, and advertising being passed off as ânewsâ?
Several days ago, the local ânewsâ ran a report on how much higher peopleâs stress levels are now, compared to a number of years ago. The irony, of course, being it is the mediaâs steady diet of hype and hysteria that is probably the root cause of the elevated stress.
Just curiousâŚhow could one just delete crowdstrike? Wouldnât you have to deploy a replacement service otherwise the security services provided by them would be lost.
Sounds like it was an update that ran amok. Probably a good reminder that itâs not good to have two companies with almost 50% market share in the endpoint cyber security realm.
âCrowdstrike - Ransomware without the ransom.â
Last month, Tesla declared it would [recall every car it has ever shipped with Autopilot] (more than two million total) to curb its misuse after an NHTSA investigation. Its solution was simple: Issue an over-the-air update to make driver monitoring stricter. But that update hasnât gone off without a hitch, as Tesla owners are reporting a range of software failures that often disable Autopilot. The cause? Teslaâs service centers are struggling to diagnose it, but it seems to be a cluster of related software and hardware failures.
You would think that the standard procedure for doing updates would be to trickle them out to a few customers that know they are getting an update, before sending them out to all customers
