Major IT Outage Affecting Airlines, Banks, Railways, etc., Worldwide

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A major IT outage is affecting airlines, banks, railways, worldwide.

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide. A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines can’t start properly.

[theverge.com...]

www.theverge.com Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline The issues have been linked to a CrowdStrike update.

[tangor]

When the connected world bites you...

(Are there too many dependencies out there?)

[lucy24]

Oh! So that’s what this morning's xkcd was about!

[not2easy]

OK, you made me look.
TY.

[Kendo]

This is why we should never allow auto updates, that is, if we have the choice. Much better to wait and check for fallout.

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This might be the end of the auto-update for such systems.

<side note> There's an app I use that turned on auto-update at the last manual update, and I wasn't aware of it. The update in May turned the hardware into a brick on my system. Since then the company has been issuing updates to recover the problems, but, as yet, it's still failed to get back to where it was. It could have rolled back, but it chose not to.
Auto update - i'm not impressed.

[super70s]

I always consent to a Firefox browser update on my 10-year-old Mac system, they haven't abandoned me like Chrome did a couple of years ago and I'm afraid to refuse them would be discouraging them to keep it up.

But anyway have fun all you Windows users. >:)

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Microsoft explains the Crowdstrike outage in technical terms.

[microsoft.com...]

www.microsoft.com Windows Security best practices for integrating and managing security tools Microsoft Security Blog We examine the recent CrowdStrike outage and provide a technical overview of the root cause.