Massive IT outages: How severe are they and who is affected? | DW News

A global tech outage is disrupting companies worldwide from airlines to broadcasters and banks. The US is issuing a ground stop on all its flights worldwide, as delays hit Berlin and Amsterdam's Schipol airport -- among many others. In the UK, the London Stock Exchange was temporarily affected along with the Sky News channel, which was unable to broadcast for several hours. Two hospitals in Germany have also canceled non-emergency operations.

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[SevenStanesMBT]

Crowdstrike certainly seems like an appropriate name....

[nathansharma]

I work for a very small roadside assistance company in Australia and even we went down. Makes you realise how vulnerable and reliant we are as we get pushed more and more digital.

[loudrah]

Imagine how they will easily switch us on and off once we are all fully

[John-ourm]

The conversation that 'needs to be had' will go like this... "You want secondary backup? The total cost will be twice as much"..."Oh, we can't afford that, hopefully it won't happen again".

[janofe]

All civilizations fall when they put all their eggs in one basket...

[vladimirgorea]

if instead of governments pouring bilions in the pockets of MSFT they would fund open source projects like linux, libre office, etc, this would have been avoided. but MSFT has the politicians, the CEOs in their pockets

[tuhkathri]

I question the wisdom of having a single company have so much control 😂

[urkiddingme]

BBC: Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike says a "defect" in one of its software updates hit Windows operating systems
A fix has been deployed, the company says, but admits it "could be some time" before systems are fully back up and running

[bravewarrior]

The widespread disruptions caused by the CrowdStrike update stem from a faulty software modification to its Falcon platform, which is designed to secure Windows systems. This update led to critical errors, notably the "Blue Screen of Death, " affecting devices globally.

The issue began in Australia and quickly spread, impacting various sectors, including airlines, hospitals, and financial institutions.

No malicious cyberattack has been linked to these outages

[robertsmith]

"Real Motorcycles Have Kick Starters."

[waynevandermerwe]

Well I am in South Africa and we should be ok as we are always off line anyway

[williamhoole]

depending exclusively on any system not good

[deano_bites]

Problems have been happening for a number of days now

[MiSt]

Here in Poland, the only symptom of this was when I was in the shop this morning some of the self checkout mashines had this blue screen, but only 3 out of 10.
No issues with my PC in any case

[Muricans]

This is what happens when you're more interested in padding Exec Compensation instead investing in real world Operations, SW Updates and Release Management. Criminal for this to have occurred.

[blackterminal]

Customers world wide apparently are being rude to staff who can't help because of this issue.

[aceyage]

Open source software has to be the standard!

[royalscot]

Why is it that one single private corporation is entrusted, by means of its secretive and little understood vulnerable operating system, with the control of practically the entire planet's internet based communications?

[elija]

I just got home from work 4 Hours early because our systems arent functioning aswell

[AaronOkeanos]

Kudos for not making theories about the origin BEFORE we know some more facts. Not every media is able and jumping immediatly on the usual suspects.