The underlying problem behind today's massive IT outage | DW News

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Published 2024-07-19
A technical outage is disrupting companies worldwide - from airlines to broadcasters and banks. The US initially grounded all of its flights worldwide, as delays hit airports including Berlin and Amsterdam's Schipol. In the UK, the London stock exchange was temporarily affected and two hospitals in Germany had to cancel non-emergency operations. The problem is being linked to the cyber security firm Crowdstrike and the Microsoft Windows operation system.

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All Comments (21)
  • @_rkrd
    Why does he keep saying "malicious" and then says there are no "malicious" actors involved? It's not a "malicious" update, it's a broken one.
  • @danielekirylo
    As an IT consultant I am baffled, once again, how we create so many single points of failures, know them and do NOTHING .. NOTHING to mitigate the risks. COVID has thought us NOTHING!
  • @ImarBenIsrael
    He said its malicious but then its not an cyber attack but a messup on themselves. Sounds like a Freudian slip to me
  • @TudorAdrian
    If it's not caused by a third party actor then why do we have "malicious" in statements?
  • @BenState
    Dude has clearly never looked at the definition of 'malicious' nor the price of AWS/Azure
  • @MissFoxification
    The problem is that IT departments are rarely properly funded and in all too many instances businesses don't have in-house IT at all. As it stands this is not appear to be malicious as the interviewee states, it is however a product of negligence and incompetence. If an AV or other software can be instructed to delete/isolate/rename/etc a file essential to the system THIS is what happens.
  • @cecillanter3207
    there is no way I use that screwed up cloud my info is mine and kept on my systems
  • @ScribeAdept
    The person being interviewed should have been vetted a bit better - his presentation of the information causes more confusion than informs. "Malicious" update and "malicious" code, etc., does nothing to explain if the issue is actually an inexplicably non-compatible update which caused an unexpected cascade of failure in the existent coding. It was five minutes of not saying anything.
  • @emersonmsd
    and then you realise it was just chat GPT 4 idea of a joke.
  • @agentnd
    Its the code that is malicious, not a human
  • @hinthegroove9740
    I stopped using Microsoft when Windows XP became obsolete and kept thinking of them as something only used outside of America. Until now.
  • @RavagHer
    skynet is probing for weaknesses
  • @mycosys
    Well that was terrible. He doesnt know that cloud-only services werent affected - this only affected orgs running their own servers. And he doesnt know what malicious means
  • @ciprianpopa1503
    Sorry guys. There was a sign with the writing don't touch that button while I was at the entrance of Microsoft bathroom. But I couldn't help myself.
  • @enkephalin07
    "Malicious" is such a sensational term. Who cares if it's inaccurate?
  • @WackadoodleMalarkey
    This audio quality, wow you poor guys are in trouble - unaffected thus far in Moo York 🐮
  • @stanleykubrick8786
    This is nothing compared to watching Annie Jacobsen's book scenarios come true. Stay tuned.