World wide IT dropout

Maybe mae13 but luckily not "life and death" - and it will go through today or Monday, surely?

🤞 for you.

The world we live in now is dependent on technology there often is no paper backup at all, this was an ordinary update that caused the problem.
Critical systems should be isolated from the internet we all use every day, think what chaos would be caused if a deliberate act put data centers out of action for a long period.

CrowdStrike pushed a broken software update, which forced Windows computers into an unusable state. The incident is estimated to have delayed over 5,000 flights worldwide, costing the economy at least $1 billion.

As CrowdStrike is one of the biggest cybersecurity firms in the world, the outage touched about 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide, forcing Windows computers into the dreaded “blue screen of death.” The company is still dealing with the impact of the bugged update, which has impacted many critical devices and servers that are hard for engineers to fix.

How can a computer crash cost the economy so much money? If you want an answer, all you have to do is look to the airline industry — the outage disrupted the computers that airlines use to schedule and track flights, delaying tens of thousands of flights and canceling over 10,000 between Friday and Sunday. Thousands of passengers were stranded at airports, and airlines are still struggling to get their services up and running.

8.5 million devices worldwide isn't really that many if you think about it.

The problem arose because of who was using them.

My son manages systems for a number of companies and a defence contract and didn't have a single one go down as none of them use Crowdstrike - but his friend had one contract of 6,000 hotels go down!

It was easy to reset them but had to be done individually I believe.

Also, I'm not sure they pushed a broken software update? Unless you just meant implemented one with flaws?

Just checked. They have 24% of the market.

A quarter of the world market then. Some business!

Microsoft blames EU rules for allowing world’s biggest IT outage to happen.

European Commission deal prevented software giant from making security changes that would have blocked CrowdStrike update, claims tech giant.

McAfee ePO has 22% don't know about all the others. Would expect Microsoft to have a masdive share tbh.

Have just googled this Urmstongran

Discovered SentinelOne has10%,
Duo Security 8%

Not sure who other competitors are..

Thanks NotSpaghetti.

Urmstongran

Microsoft blames EU rules for allowing world’s biggest IT outage to happen.

European Commission deal prevented software giant from making security changes that would have blocked CrowdStrike update, claims tech giant.

I never thought I would defend the eu but I have to in this case.
The ruling was tied up with Microsoft having an unfair advantage over other companies, which they do.

It may also be to do with the EU's stronger data protection?

This just shows how foolish we would be to go to a cashless society.

I still keep hard copy records for every transaction in my business - I am old fashioned like that. At least I know who has bought what and where I have to send it. Even if the posta service ceases to operate because their computers have gone down ....

This just shows how foolish we would be to go to a cashless society.

I get the impression the tide has turned on this.

*Glammagran, you were correct - this was not a malicious act - and I was wrong to automatically imagine the worst. Cloudstrike has changed their roll-out procedures now so they will time-stagger software updates instead of everyone at once. It was just poor planning and not a cyberterrorrism act.