Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks

I am also indirectly affected. My work collegues directly. I also can't work, even though I installed internal linux distribution since last month, because most intranet sites are down or throwing randomly exceptions and errors. Looks like a great time to take long overdue upskilling courses

 

Update: it seems like this is some bug in CrowdStrike Falcon making Windows crash

 

Crowdstrike issued a patch earlier, which is seemingly causing disruption for corporations/businesses worldwide.

No issue for me with my personal laptop.

 

Whoever wrote that update is in a lot of trouble today.

 

Not only Crowdstrike employee. A lot of other businesses showed lack of or poor bussiness continuity plan implementation today

 

Undoubtedly. Happens every day but nobody gets caught until something happens.

 

"...[Today's] outages would probably take time to resolve because the suggested solution involved rebooting each computer manually into safe mode, deleting a specific file and then restarting the computer. While it is a relatively straightforward process, security experts say, it may not be easy to automate at scale..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/business/microsoft-outage-cause-azure-crowdstrike.html

 

Crowdstrike "Statement on Falcon Content Update for Windows Hosts"

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content-update-for-windows-hosts/

 

Maybe?

 

Indeed, it is hard to automate anything on a computer that does not boot
The another problem is that CrowdStrike is mostly used in enterprises, and enterprises do encrypt hard drives. It means you can not just boot into safe mode, you must have master Bitlocker key first.

 

same here, clients are fine, ms cloud services also, but our server struggled, no eplan working.

 

https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/faulty-crowdstrike-update-crashes.html

Another sad but classic example that corp. IT worldwide isn't doing their job by not testing updates prior to installation on the corp. network.

 

Southwest Airlines is unaffected as they still have a mix of Win 3.1 and Win95 as the base (true).

 

I knew what the end of that line was going to be before I got to it.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if Crowdstrike had its own in-app channel to receive updates bypassing IT update channels

 

Sounds likely based on their FAQ

What is CrowdStrike? FAQ | CrowdStrike

 

I totally agree with that.

 

In 2010 McAfee caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty upgrade.
The CTO at the time was George Kurtz. He is currently the CEO of Crowdstrike.

 

Regarding testing it is worth to expand on it more. It is worth to hear this video Software's HUGE Impact On The World | Crowdstrike Global IT Outage
https://youtu.be/MwjQVAwIATE?si=BpbGYkwjcEF2FuC4
on Continuous Delivery channel.
Of course there is more to software enginering testing practices than it was inclused in this quickly produced content, yet worth to listen to anyway