Massive IT Outage Grinds Cyber-World to
a Halt
Hot Air,
by
Jazz Shaw
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/19/2024 10:08:08 AM
Overnight, there was a global IT outage that has thrown much of the tech world into chaos. People using Windows systems, primarily for business operations, were greeted with the "blue screen of death" when attempting to log in. One of the first and largest systems to be impacted took down airline communications. American, United, and Delta all lost control and communications capabilities, leading to a ground stop for all departing flights. Flights that were already in the air were instructed to continue circling until the situation could be resolved.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 7/19/2024 10:10:15 AM (No. 1760843)
I returned to work part-time on Monday. Off today. I just texted a coworker. Our company has been hit.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 7/19/2024 10:17:58 AM (No. 1760849)
Per the AP 33 minutes ago President "has been briefed on the CrowndStrike outage and his team has been in touch with CrowdStrike and impacted entities..." Did they wait until he got up?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 7/19/2024 10:22:31 AM (No. 1760855)
I ditched the buggy, slow, unreliable Microsoft operating system many years ago. Switched to Apple and have had virtually no problems.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/19/2024 10:23:50 AM (No. 1760856)
Huh. The global elites must be really mad at Trump because he is still here and had a terrific night last night. No internet means no praise for Trump can be fed to the commoners via the news sites and blogs.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 7/19/2024 10:24:59 AM (No. 1760857)
It wasn't windows it was "Crowdstrike"...people with any memory remember the name because THAT was who was running Hillary's illegal server, that went "Poof"...."Ooops we cant produce any of those 30,000 emails, they seem to have disappeared"
Wiped? What do you mean wiped? Like with a rag???(knowing full well her team had been smashing servers, laptops and phones with actual hammers) rather than maintaining records as the law requires, or producing records under subpoenas.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
john56 7/19/2024 10:26:04 AM (No. 1760860)
You remember Criwdstrike? The guys who told us that Wilileaks from DNC in 2016 came from a Russian hack.job but refused to share that information with Obama's FBI and they said okay.
I wouldn't trust anything from Crowdstrike.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 7/19/2024 10:32:16 AM (No. 1760863)
Hmmm. Huge update rolled out that crashed lots of businesses, airlines, etc. - did they not even test it before doing this??? Sounds like a bunch of programmers that think they know everything and testing isn't necessary before rolling out the update. These are the kind of idiots I would come behind and clean up their messes when I was doing contract programming / project managing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Axeman 7/19/2024 10:45:02 AM (No. 1760869)
Update didn't play nice on some virtual servers. You can't test everything. So far I have only had one site that I frequent that is offline. I just wonder if this has anything to do with the DEI kill-off at MSFT?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Californian 7/19/2024 10:55:07 AM (No. 1760876)
8, you can't test everything but something that impacted millions of servers across countless companies was not properly tested. This was not some obscure glitch that only occurs in very rare circumstances and environments.
There's no excuse for this nonsense.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 7/19/2024 11:47:10 AM (No. 1760926)
Never trusted Crowdstrike. They covered up the details in the Seth Rich computer "hacking" incident which was NOT hacking.
IMO, Crowdstrike is evil.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 7/19/2024 4:00:52 PM (No. 1761128)
My bet is that some idiot at CrowdStrike effed up a .dll file. These are Digital Linking Libraries, and some are used by many different 'services' and other bits of software like the printer driver, or network driver, or even the disk driver, that are critical to the system working. One bad DLL and you are screwed.
And....fixing it, apparently, is going to mean a system manager type person with a replacement file needs to boot the computer into safe mode (which keeps it off of any networks) and then replace the bad file or files from something like a thumb drive. Then reboot.
Rinse, repeat for EVERY individual computer.
Fun, fun, fun.
A DEI hire at CrowdStrike?
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