IT outages reported across globe by airlines, airports, banks and others

[triplets_93]

IT outages reported across globe as airlines, airports, banks and media companies experience disruptions

International airports, the London Stock Exchange and Google have been affected.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/american-airlines-issues-global-ground-stop-flights/story?id=112092372

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ground-stop-flights-communications-issue.html

 

[triplets_93]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide. A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines can’t start properly. CrowdStrike is widely used by many businesses worldwide for managing the security of Windows PCs and servers.

 

[gtb1943]

Somebody screwed up big time. Too eager to get out an update and did not thoroughly vet it more than likely.
the company is going to take a big hit; there will be competitors looking to capitalize on this

 

[Creeper]

The Crowdstrike CEO issued a statement on X today, but forget to apologize to customers for the screw up. I feel like this software was not tested very well considering the magnitude of the outage.

 

[gtb1943]

I talked to an IT tech years ago who addressed this; that a lot of updates are pushed out without sufficient vetting.

Look at some of the Windows Operating systems that were less than successful - they were often pushed out before they were ready.

and a lot of so called security updates are nowhere near as important as claimed.

 

[jsb357]

you wanted everything connected and in the cloud...

 

[Creeper]

If it was a bad update, then why not just back it out? Windows has a recovery feature to roll back to before the last change was applied.