GLOBAL OUTAGE | Huge IT issue hits banks, hospitals and airlines

Cybersecurity expert Ritesh Kotak says this major worldwide outage was caused by a technical issue not a cyberattack

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[timtrainage]

Been in IT for most of my adult life.
Guess what I DON'T do as a seasoned vet?
Rollout updates to ALL MY CLIENTS all at once.
🤦‍♀️

[yoshshmenge]

Did you try turning it off and back on?

[BertGraef]

Crowdstrike. The name sounds so appropriate.

[joeschlepp]

this is what happens when humanity has become 99.5% dependent on tech to survive🤣😵‍💫

[MajorMosh]

They don’t even know all you gotta do is unplug it and wait 30 seconds

[danieldragisic]

99% of the time the issue is somewhere between the chair and the keyboard.

[samskisamsonof]

yeap, thats why we need to keep our physical currency.

[TheSilverlady]

Advertisements are coming through just fine!

[fknfreddy]

And these are the supposed smart guys.

[metime]

Air Canada runs normally according to its website.

[theguyfromsaturn]

Question, how do you apply a patch to a system that is stuck in a reboot loop?

[jptrainor]

CrowdStrike ... The same outfit who were tangled up in russia-gate bogusness.

[darioz]

Just a test run for what's yet to come.

[mightyherbivores]

Coming from the IT field here, I have a waiting period set so never roll out Windows updates immediately to our endpoints - because trusting Windows updates fresh out of the box is a bad move.

Linux Users, where you at, and what's your fav distro and why?
(Mine is POP! OS)

[Ihatetrudeau]

How do you run a patch on a system in a constant state of reboot?

[TheRealFlightSkoolTv]

How bad would it look if the security companies we use aren't secure.

[kangaroo]

Sign of the time. This was just a test. These outages will happen more frequently. They want to discourage you from earning a living and travelling. You will take the Government Currency Handouts, and you will do, as they ask of you...

[averagejoesmiling]

Yup, we believe everything you say. Not.

[jiggycalzone]

So how long before theres some kind of IT tax?

[jasons]

I don’t know why he said a server is a “virtual” machine.