CrowdStrike to face US Congress over global IT outage | BBC News

A CrowdStrike executive will testify at the US Congress on Tuesday to explain what caused the global IT outage on 19 July.

A rogue software update by the US cybersecurity company crippled up to eight and a half million computers using Microsoft systems around the world.

The outage meant GPs couldn't treat patients, people were stranded as planes couldn't get off the ground, and small businesses lost thousands in sales.

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[Woodzta]

Here we go again. A bunch of nonsensical and assumptive comments from people who barely know how to turn the computer on giving IT security advice.

[Chops]

Keep consolidating everything to just a few companies... that makes so much sense!

[spmadeinusa]

I recall meeting with Bell Labs decades ago. We were all working in Advanced Technology Centers. The Bell engineers described legacy Federal Communication Commission requirements in place for decades, which mandated "There would always (99.99%) be a dial tone when you picked up the phone, and the network could have no more than a two minute (120 second) cumulative disruption each month. The engineers said "Those rules drove our reliability, which drove our network design. The penalties for violations were severe, including license forfeitures, and eventually, federally mandated competition." Or course, fast forward to multiple cell phone networks and those reliability standards are now extinct dinosaurs.

[lewis]

Maybe it was a bad idea to have loads of critical infrastructure rely on a single software

[polygonalmasonary]

A perfect example of what happens when you relinquish control of your product or property to third parties. This parodies exactly what is happening with our councils putting public services out to private companies with little or no policing by the councils. 🤔🙏🇬🇧

[polygonalmasonary]

Note: The young ladies £900 had not just ‘Gone’, it is now in the bank account of Rich people rubbing their hands with glee because they got it virtually for free. 😡🇬🇧🙏

[Johnnymahon]

Glitch in the system testing glitches. Haha!😂

[boucha]

Luckily wasn't intel failure back then, but majority was high end cpu issue

[Some_dude_eh]

I don't blame the staff, like Bowen it's always the company going rush-rush-rush get it out in time. Staff wanting more done but the bosses saying no.

[shadow.banned]

Banned Kapersky and Crowdstrike stock dumped and hacked.

[radjalomas]

Everyone and their opinion🙃... Really, it's the client's faults as well. You don't deploy critical updates without testing them first.

[marcorossi]

Crowdstrike! They really striked a huge crowd this time 😂

[BlueTaurianBull]

why banks CEOs and CTO and other Big managers not answerable to approve such products .... They MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE ..

[churabhok]

Imagine the fate of tech support around the world 😂

[pragueexpat]

I guess Crowdstrike doesn't have a very good change management procedure.

[young]

If we become totally dependent on computers, cyber war will be the equivalent of nuclear war

[raquetdude]

Conservative economics of monopolies functioning as they should… great ideas that have no faults /s

[天下為公]

Microsoft: I should take control like Apple, do I.

[Cory-vw]

Grover's Algorithm is a quantum algorithm designed to search unsorted databases faster than classical algorithms.

[sleepy_dobe]

No, you don't need different systems from different companies because then you'll have the huge problem of integrating different systems to work together. Obviously, the companies involved will not want to disclose any IP information that may be required during the integration process and each company will want to have a bigger share of the market. What you need is a redundancy system whereby everything is mirrored exactly, working on a different pipeline, and hosted in different locations so that should the primary system fail, the redundancy system kicks in immediately or within minutes to take up the slack and prevent mass or long-term outage. Costs? Humongous. Doable? Yes. Will it be done? No.