CrowdStrike: World’s biggest IT outage continues to cause global chaos

CrowdStrike, the cyber-security company that has acquired a certain infamy after admitting responsibility for the IT outage that has upended services across the globe, is warning of "bad actors" trying to take advantage of the chaos.

Cyber agencies in both the UK and Australia have urged people to be alert to fake emails or calls.

Meanwhile, transport and health systems have been badly hit, with travellers facing continued delays and cancellations.

[OliverLiam-pxvx]

This global internet outage is insane! All airlines grounded and i was stock the airport and even banks, media, and offices from the U.S. to Australia. How can CrowdStrike have such a monopoly that could help restore such a massive amount of tech?

[rcg]

It actually made all of the computers safe and secure. Can’t attack a computer that doesn’t work.

[teresaharris-travelbybooks]

I appreciated how the man said that the British Airways staff were not briefed, rather than blaming them for not having answers and solutions.

[WhichDoctor]

One cyber secret firm managed to do more damage in one day than ever malicious hacker in the world combined could do in a decade

[elsells]

One CS professor at Harvard said it best. It all comes down to economics. IT companies that cut spending on quality control can deploy buggy software to production. Just look at the quality control at Boeing. Airplane parts falling off during flights. Comes down to testing. Test, test, test, and test some more. I had a math professor in grad school from Czech Republic who was super smart. He had worked for IBM and tried to find bugs in their code and could never find any. With Microsoft code, he found bugs all the time.

[PuppyLuvU]

This is going to be the biggest tech lawsuit in history.

[SohailKhan-wtgd]

For a company that's so much concerned about security. I am surprised why a Show Stopper level issue skipped a QA check. Why a soft-launch method is not a standard.

[alexthemtaandrweatherfa]

I'm going to hate Crowdstrike forever

[supreme_overlord]

The WEF also correctly predicted this ahead of time maintaining that 100% correct prediction rate of bad things that happen from them....

[JonathanSwiftUK]

Staged updating is the answer, IT can do that, but there is a cost. So if you have 4 machines, 2 get updated on day 1, and the other 2 some days later. It doesn't even have to be said that much more thorough testing is needed, and Crowdstrike clearly didn't do enough testing. Microsoft also release buggy updates, and have bluescreened machines. Cylance, like Crowdstrike, also released a very buggy update some years ago, that caused a lot of problems - which drove many to Crowdstrike.

[aleksandartomic]

This has highlighted a massive vulnerability in our society. Software that everything depends on should be as regulated as aviation - it’s bonkers to think that a “routine update” could cause such issues globally.

Something like this was bound to happen, and we were fortunate that people didn’t die as a result of emergency services or hospital software failing.

[SheSweetLikSugarNSavage]

Its too late. Its now obvious how fragile our country is. This simply should have never happened when America claims to be the best in technology.😂

[SOULPHUR]

So an IT firm in Texas has a global effect

[bencaton]

We really shouldn't rely on Microsoft for our global security when they can't even create a word processing program without it being riddled with bugs

[ronniew]

When the world is built on a foundation of sand.

[knightofwind]

If only the Internet would go down too lol

[prabjotsingh]

Every System has to be checked manually and the list is long, it will take at least a week to get things up.

[CaribouDataScience]

Well, that's happens when you put all your eggs in one basket. 😮

[christopherballard]

Watching this at home after our flight was cancelled, ruining our holiday today.

It’s out of their control they say, but they chose to use the software, so is.

[LastiJerb]

This just shows how dependent we are to technology, one small mistake can cause such a major disaster.