How a small software update triggered a global IT meltdown
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Published 2024-07-19
A software update by the US firm CrowdStrike lead to a day of chaos, with airports, banks and even broadcasters such as Sky News going down for hours.
But how did such an update disrupt computer systems worldwide?
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All Comments (21)
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Oh the irony of a cyber security company taking out systems globally
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Imagine if digital currency was our only way to access money… 👀 This would be catastrophic
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At work today… absolute nightmare
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Unfortunately my work systems weren't affected. Teams still worked no matter how hard I tried....
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The 2 main questions that SKY should be asking is, what happened to testing this release ? And why a third party software can bring down a whole operating system if it goes wrong ?
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Imagine how different the news would be if the exact same thing happened, but it were a Russian or Chinese firm instead?
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Did they try turning it off and on again
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Why the heck "whole world" have enabled automatic update
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Spooky that their name is 'Crowdstrike'
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Imagine the insurance claims!
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Crowdstrike!? Isn't that what they call 'Hidden in broad daylight'?
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Live simple people. This new way of living is turning disastrous
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Laughs in Linux.
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These clowns are unbelievable, and they expect the world to go purely digital. These outages has been going on for long time but they've never admitted to them.
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It just shows how fragile our society is, it's scary tbh.
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Don't drop the black box Jen
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I just love the BSOD everywhere lol seeing that technology is supposed to be robust lol
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That apology from Cyber strike has been deemed as weak , in fact , exceptionally weak
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I thought that prince Harry narrates Sky News now😅
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I'd say next time invest in QA testers but I don't think their customers will give them a next time now.