Crowdstrike outage hits Microsoft

A glitch in a software update at Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm, caused a major IT outage around the world Friday morning

[RedRag]

Now I see why Mr. Krabs has a fear of robot overlords and keeps a cash register 😂😂.

[williamgrimberg]

Now just imagine what a total electrical outage lasting a few months would do . Especially in Winter.

[swdw]

Our company IT manager calls Microsoft updates "legal viruses"😆

[kellygem]

Oh I’m sure they will not lie about getting HACKED

[hiimstacie]

as a person who grew up messing with computers for 27 years. this is why you never set anything up for auto update it's best to wait a week before applying any updates just to be safe and choose the update instead of update all. they always have some weird issue almost every time

[donjaksa]

All I did was do a windows UPDATE and now my printer won't work

[JerryN]

The company’s name is CrowdStrike. Shouldn’t that name have raised any red flags????

[Valkyrie]

It should be noted that the "fix" is to delete a corrupted file, but it largely has to be done by hand on each and every affected machine, because they're no longer accessible via the internet.

Larger companies have methods of automating this fix with data centers and large servers, but laptops, desktops, cash registers, healthcare equipment, industrial controllers, etc that have this particular CrowdStrike product installed and were updated will mostly all need to be fixed individually, by hand.

Expect major outages and impacts to continue throughout the weekend, and for issues to linger for possibly weeks.

This isn't apocalyptic, but it is a decently bad problem with a body count and hundreds of billions in damages. It's as if a very minor, very temporary Y2K happened to a significant portion of society.

[gamingio]

Plot twist, Crowdstrike is taking revenge on Microsoft for randomly updating computers when we’re in the middle of lectures, online courses, intense gaming, etc.

[marioleon]

Pretty sure this is how Skynet became self aware.

[baphnie]

We’ve been dealing with Windows issues much longer than since yesterday, Carol.

[timp]

The FBI doesn't have time for this stuff, they are too busy investigating School Moms

[VirtualLunacy]

When non-technical people are trying to report on technical issues it sounds completely ridiculous

[chansaechao]

Most companies with a good IT department will validate an update or any piece of software before it's allowed into their environment, especially if there are hundred of thousands if not billions of dollars on the line. Loss of production and income is one thing most people try and avoid by taking measures and precautions.

[TroySchulz]

Moving to Linux is looking better and better all the time!

[brightchange]

Precisely the problem with monopolies. "CrowdStrike" - what a perfect name ... the crowds have been stricken.

[randyrcook]

Either hacked due to incompetence or pushed out an untested update. Either way, MS Sux.

[CraigScottFrost]

Blue screen of death is still a thing? Oh Microsoft. Will you ever learn?

[CAK]

lol just in time to change a news cycle…I’m starting to be very skeptical about everything they try to push on the news mainstream especially if they all start parroting it

[MetsBarth]

They should call the cyber police! Because I backTRACED it! Consequences…will NEVER be the same!