Special report: Major computer outages occur worldwide

Watch the full special report on a massive global technical outage tied to CrowdStrike. This cyber security provider has knocked critical computer infrastructure offline nationwide and worldwide.

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[LeahLewis-nyiu]

This global internet outage is insane! All airlines grounded and i was stock the airport and even banks, media, and offices from the U.S. to Australia. How can CrowdStrike have such a monopoly that could help restore such a massive amount of tech?

[marthawhitehouse]

They send a reporter to the Spirit Airlines desk where “emotions are spilling over.” Emotions are always spilling over at Spirit so everything is normal.

[BigA]

Have you tried unplugging it, then plugging it back in?

[TenderloinsToughest]

The irony of a cyber security firm being the root of the problem is hilarious to me.

[gosnooky]

As someone who works in tech, being the guy whose single bad code commit caused a worldwide outage costing billions is my recurring nightmare.

[donkey]

This is what happens when critical software isn't treated as *critical* software.

[Thinkingnamesishard]

With cybersecurity like this, who needs criminals?

[dougthomson]

This just proves how insanely vulnerable we are to computer technology. Insane.

[tomr]

The irony of cybersecurity software bringing down machines is not lost on me

[chris]

Who needs a hack when you have an update.

[philyoutuber]

This is what people thought would happen back in 1999 when the year 2000 would start 💀

[ryanb]

Traffic lights and major things in the government shouldn’t even be connected to the internet we never used to need it

[mijan]

Scary how fragile this is. It can disable an entire economy/industry if it were to crash even for just a few hours.

[joeking]

As a IT person we are told to never roll out a update on Friday because if it goes wrong then there is a good chance it will affect the weekend where a lot of IT staff don’t usually work.

Don’t blame the person who rolled out this patch, I blame the management as this patch should have been fully tested before being applied to such a high number of devices.

[mellymckenzie]

As an IT professional that spent his career in high end enterprise computing: all I am hearing is word salad trying to suggest industry incompetence excuses the situation. In the late 1970's three basic principles of big systems design were: 1. Design to be as secure as possible. 2. Design to have no single points of failure. and 3. Design into the system redundancy which can cope with the work if there is a failure. The last 24 hours have demonstrated several single points of failure and the disaster recover plan which is essentially a well spun PR campaign telling the public "its very complicated, its not our fault, we have the world's best people working on it". Gone are the days when competent people designed and ran the big critical systems. The most important qualification criteria in the industry nowadays is low cost and arrogance. The brains of the industry are engaged in massively profitable software where they might get a share of the IPO and the left overs run the worlds critical systems. The only real positive I can take from this outage is we will have a period free from news on which of the incompetents running for high government office are leading the herd ...

[joet]

Yet another perfect example of why a cashless society is a terrible idea!

[krakulandia]

When a single companys security software is so widespread, it IS the security threat that can be exploited against the public. That should not be allowed to happen.

[FishbedFive]

this is what people thought Y2K would be like huh

[taichoumilly]

This is exactly why we shouldn't monopolize everything.

[prairiegirl]

Humanity's dependence on technology is pathetic.