Global cyber outage crises exposes world 'vulnerability' as banks, airlines, media outlets hit
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Published 2024-07-19
Engineers are working to fix the "outage" that is causing Microsoft users across the globe to experience "the blue screen of death", says technology journalist Chris Stokel-Walker.
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All Comments (21)
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Heres an idea, how bout we get back to basics and not put all our eggs in one basket when it comes to tech
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I was once fired from my job for installing Linux rather than Microsoft Windows. LOL. This is PAYBACK! LOL.
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To quote Iago, Jafar's parrot in Aladdin, "Why am I not surprised?". Squawk.
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This is the consequence of running your IT backend on cloud based services.
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CROWDSTRIKE ISSUE, NOT A MICROSOFT ISSUE!!!!
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The danger of a monoculture of software.
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So much for phased rollout- who are these muppets?
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Couple of years ago my island at very North of Scotland had both cables into it cut. One by fishing boat and one by submarine. We were cut off from world for 1 week. Little english govmt making everyone change to digital telephones which means more chances for being cut off from rest of world. At moment can plug in an analogue fon if there is a power cut. Ridiculous they can see the problems that r possible but still carry on down the road of computerising everything.
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The computer says NO :<(
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Outage here in Australia
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7:00 Rolling back is not going to be just a "snap of the finger" as computer is bluescreening - it won't be able to obtain any updates, unless it is manually fixed as it is guided by CrowdStrike and endusers. Rolling back only prevents those still running machines that aren't yet obtained bad update to be saved from BSOD, others requires most probably IT support to do things. Long weekend with not lot a sleep I would guess to many on IT support.
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Let's hope it does not affect the SCADA systems.
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Being a Luddite, I am still on Windows 7 with Zero Cloud services. I am having no problems at all!!
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Now I wonder who was responsible for that and how will that country be held accountable and punished
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Did they try switching it off and on 😂
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"Insert recovery media".
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"The Cloud" is just someone else's computer! Treat it as such!!
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Work from home haircut is strong with this one
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Other operating systems are available.
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Usually, such updates are thoroughly tested to avoid widespread disruption like this.