Global IT outage 'a long time coming' - Microsoft and CrowdStrike face 'SERIOUS' reputational damage

'These companies have a serious problem ahead.'

Cyber Security Advisor at CyXcel, Megha Kumar, details the extent of the problems facing CrowdStrike and Microsoft amid the global IT outage.

#glitch #technology #itoutage #microsoft #crowdstrike

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[emmahowells]

This is why cash is needed in this situation.

[garethgill]

As someone who works in IT, we had a hell of a morning trying to resolve our client's problems - but fuck this video. This was NOWHERE NEAR a cyber attack. Crowdstrike works with Microsoft on Cyber Security threat identification, and the engineers rolled out a faulty patch that was causing the BSODs. All news about this incident is infuriating and is honestly just incorrect. We work our asses off every day, and then they say things like this that make us look bad. Yes, it was a mistake on Crowdstrike - but fucking hell learn your facts!

[peterbergman]

Scrap all this computer stuff and go back to the seventies when we had a life

[estellebaby]

After "pandemic" coming this moneydemic issue...panic again...new restrictions are coming...have cash

[wawaweewa]

its called a test run, not a failure.

[jamiecorrigan]

LOOKS LIKE 'SOMEONE' IS HAVING A PRACTICE RUN.

[d.c.Jones]

This is the reason you cannot get rid of cash

[Ablk]

It’s not a cyber attack, it's just incompetence.

[cmdr_elfin]

World Economic Forum Seems to Predict when and where and how things will happen years in advance. Strange that

[jamietowndrow]

The whole world is full speed ahead entering the computer age without even questioning if its a good thing or not

[micky]

And "they" want us to go digital with our money etc.

[zwbgvrg]

This should serve as a warning against forcing us into a digital economy. We need to keep the availability of cash as a protection against cyber attacks.

[russelllapua]

"Feels like a Cyberattack" by someone that's never experienced a cyberattack clearly.

[ashleydean]

Why is the real question not addressed.

What caused this?
Who or what is responsible ?
Will it happen again?.
Why is a small company controlling all of this cyber security.
Is it about time the Government took charge of such strategically important asset ?.
What about back up?

[guardian]

If human error can cause that, then imagine what could happen with people with bad intentions.

[OstrowskiMarcin]

This happened for a reason. This event was intended to make people realize that money is needed in the form we know, banknotes and coins, and not as a virtual currency.

[XocDlanor]

Not a cyber attack but possibly a minor test run!

[TheFreedyShow]

This is why Microsoft having a monopoly on all tech is bad, when all your eggs are in one basket, when the basket breaks, it causes a massive mess to clean up! However I got this from other comments from apparent Microsoft engineers: "While it happened at Microsoft, the real reason everything bricked was an untested update to Crowdstrike, which effected about 50% of things tied to it, and 10% of Microsoft global IT systems." - I am not sure if this is true or not, but they are both to blame. Measures need to be taken so that we have actual backups. I mean so much stuff was affected its stupid.

[Adelphi-tcll]

The bottom line really is this is what happens when big corporations go cheap on IT and trust vendors to deploy updates inside your infrastructure without testing them yourself first.

[paulroberts]

This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket, crowdstrike is totally ridiculous.