What we know about the worldwide outages for industries using Microsoft

A technical problem that global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says it has identified in its software and is working to resolve is causing massive outages around the globe for businesses, airlines and people using Microsoft. CrowdStrike provides antivirus software to Microsoft for its Windows devices. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has more on how airlines are responding to the outage and Jamil Jaffer, founder and executive director of the National Security Institute at George Mason University's Scalia Law School, joined CBS News to discuss how an incident like this happens.

[kuruptzZz]

The incompetence is staggering. I can't imagine anyone deploying an update like this affecting so many businesses, before testing it in a closed environment first

[conchobar]

CrowdStrike sounds like the name of a hacker group

[denzelwashington]

Now imagine if 45% of the population had neurolinks and an update like this went live lmao

[mpgingdl]

This is what happens when efficiency overrides resilience.

[manav.bathija]

Netflix gonna make a 8 episode show….😂

[lhrejhu]

So, if radio is down in places and emergency numbers are affected, then no body can know of a public emergency.

[alphabanks]

My main concern is the emergency systems such as 911 and hospitals.

[levmoses]

The price of monopolies. Seems having various contracted alternatives would be safer in some errors.

[bigdreams]

Suddenly buying a NAS, physical media, knowing how to use a map and compass, and not being afraid to call someone instead of using Teams all day seems like a good idea

[DavidRamos-srcx]

The price we are paying for making everything cloud. 😂

[dagobello]

This is what you get when a cyber security degree takes 10 weeks.

[pauleades]

Demonstrates the importance of resilient business continuity planning and the dangers of over reliance on digital systems without the analogue backup of critical systems.

[wvjtmcu]

They call it a blue screen of death, but dont worry about it. 🤔

[GrimGalore]

Perfect timing. God knows they needed something else to talk about.

[jonstirling]

Did someone not check this deployment at small scale first? I’m having trouble believing this.

[brianm]

starbucks couldn't even give me a hot coco this morning because their maker was down due to this...

[JustMonday-turx]

I am just a simple PC user. But. This explanation doesn't make much sense.
First - a trial run should be done the triple check whether the update is functioning correctly.
Second, why is such update done at the same time around the globe? Doesn't make much sense to me. Which update is so urgent that not any possible error was calculated and considered?

[earthwormjim]

This is what happens when you relentlessly lay off thousands of expert employees in favour of "AI" out of pure greed.

[chi-jenyang]

In the future when AI is widely adopted everywhere, AI will have no difficulty in wiping out humanity.

[flynnstone]

How many people over 50 remember life being much better before the Internet?