Special report: Major computer outages occur worldwide 

Have you tried unplugging it, then plugging it back in?

This global internet outage is insane! All airlines grounded and i was stock the airport and even banks, media, and offices from the U.S. to Australia. How can CrowdStrike have such a monopoly that could help restore such a massive amount of tech?

They send a reporter to the Spirit Airlines desk where “emotions are spilling over.” Emotions are always spilling over at Spirit so everything is normal.

The irony of a cyber security firm being the root of the problem is hilarious to me.

This is what happens when critical software isn't treated as *critical* software.

As someone who works in tech, being the guy whose single bad code commit caused a worldwide outage costing billions is my recurring nightmare.

With cybersecurity like this, who needs criminals?

This just proves how insanely vulnerable we are to computer technology. Insane.

The irony of cybersecurity software bringing down machines is not lost on me

This is what people thought would happen back in 1999 when the year 2000 would start 💀

Who needs a hack when you have an update.

Yet another perfect example of why a cashless society is a terrible idea!

Is it just me or does “Crowdstrike” sound like an A.I. villain in a Terminator movie?

this is what people thought Y2K would be like huh

As an IT professional that spent his career in high end enterprise computing: all I am hearing is word salad trying to suggest industry incompetence excuses the situation. In the late 1970's three basic principles of big systems design were: 1. Design to be as secure as possible. 2. Design to have no single points of failure. and 3. Design into the system redundancy which can cope with the work if there is a failure. The last 24 hours have demonstrated several single points of failure and the disaster recover plan which is essentially a well spun PR campaign telling the public "its very complicated, its not our fault, we have the world's best people working on it". Gone are the days when competent people designed and ran the big critical systems. The most important qualification criteria in the industry nowadays is low cost and arrogance. The brains of the industry are engaged in massively profitable software where they might get a share of the IPO and the left overs run the worlds critical systems. The only real positive I can take from this outage is we will have a period free from news on which of the incompetents running for high government office are leading the herd ...

Traffic lights and major things in the government shouldn’t even be connected to the internet we never used to need it

When a single companys security software is so widespread, it IS the security threat that can be exploited against the public. That should not be allowed to happen.

Scary how fragile this is. It can disable an entire economy/industry if it were to crash even for just a few hours.

So, this is what testing on production is like.

Humanity's dependence on technology is pathetic.

This is exactly why we shouldn't monopolize everything.

This is why you test an update before you friggin deploy it world wide.

As a IT person we are told to never roll out a update on Friday because if it goes wrong then there is a good chance it will affect the weekend where a lot of IT staff don’t usually work. Don’t blame the person who rolled out this patch, I blame the management as this patch should have been fully tested before being applied to such a high number of devices.

Yep when relying on technology alone and not having a backup plan when it goes wrong it goes really wrong,imagine being in a totally cashless society

My daughter works in a major hospital and they can’t even do surgeries right now due to this glitch. That’s some scary stuff.

Can we just start calling this decade the Rolling 20s, because it’s just one event after another

Our society is more fragile than people want to realize.

It's weird how so many companies rely on 1 company for their critical infrastructure. We had airports and news stations in the 90s and this never happened.

A company called "CrowdStrike" would never plan on hurting the Public....

This is what happens WHEN YOU CENTRALIZE TOO MUCH TECHNOLOGY into TOO FEW HANDS!

It is kinda sad and scary how much we depend on technology

Don't ever make one piece of software become the critical infrastructure for everything

How scary it is that a simple update no more than 45mb can bring the world to its knees.

so this time when windows updated, the whole _world_ froze at "updates are 99% complete"

So thats what that switch does... My bad everybody.

FYI: In the blink of an eye - the entire world can be turned off and shuddered in the Dark Ages - our current technology is far too fragile

when engineers are laid off and HR is celebrated

This is what happens when software updates are pushed and installed without user review and consent. IT departments used to actually work on these kinds of updates to decide whether they were needed/wanted and safe to deploy. They would sandbox a test case to make sure it was solid before deploying systemwide. This is a direct result of ceding that power and responsibility to the software providers. How many times has a windows update messed up your machine?

Sooo no work today?? 👀

No way the system called “Crowd Strike” just Struck the whole Crowd 😂😂😂

Linux users around the world are saying "I told you so."

A few years ago I was taking a business class and one of the lessons was never letting all your business infrastructure rely on one software or hardware. You need redundancy. You need backup systems. This is a perfect example of this.

Don't forget folks, if your flight is delayed more than four hours, you are entitled to a refund equal to four times the value of the ticket.

Just imagine no cell phone outages world-wide. It would be total mayhem!😳

Imagine using windows in your submersible and you get this error while using a Logitech controller

A single point of failure. Never good.

Man, we are never going to hear the end of this from the Linux crowd.

This is why you don't enlist a cloud company to do your anti-virus solutions

I can almost guarantee this is a product of the business demanding progress but engineering demanding time to develop and test. And here we are.

A non-security issue at a major security firm IS a security issue. Don't try to double-speak me.

This is why you DON'T contract out your IT department. THAT GEEK THAT USED TO BE IN THE BASEMENT CAN BE VERY IMPORTANT.

The modern human is a helpless little child without technology now. "Sometimes, it's not about having a talent, skill, or passion. But what if I told you that with the right investment, you can still achieve your goals? No talent, no skill, no passion, but good investment can bring you financial freedom. Don't underestimate the power of smart financial decisions!"

LOL We used CrowdStrike when I used to work in a SOC. I got fired for arguing a ton with management about the tools they choose being bad. Talk about feeling justified.

I'm from Aruba and the outage thankfully hasn't affected much for our banking services due to them already being unreliable 😂

This is why you always click "don't update now" when the update window pops up on your phone.

This is what happens when you 'put all your eggs in one basket'

I blame forced automatic updates we have no control over.

When you cause more trouble than a hacker, there's a bigger issue than cybersecurity.

So with CrowdStrike, who needs Cyber Attacks?

Sounds like the start of Skynet.

This is why we need analog backups for things, crazy how fragile our digital world is!

Back in my day, we would run a back-up before any software updates to prevent this . . . automatic updates are evil.

This is one of those scenarios in IT where "things are working and everyone asks: why do we keep you around?"/"things aren't working and everyone asks: why do we keep you around?"

Imagine how much worst this will become as AI is turned loose by criminals

I've never been more happy to be a simple, single guy, with nothing going on.

If it were a cyber attack, would they even tell us?

It's concerning to know that one single publicly traded company has this kind of widespread reach over computer systems around the world

Maybe we shouldn't rely on individual companies for critical infrastructure... smh

July 19th, 2024, Skynet becomes self-aware.

our IT team pulled an all nighter last night to get it fixed at my job and they got it about 70% there

I love the idea of people being like ''what, your systems are down and you cant get planes in the air or even print out boarding passes?! Why haven't you updated the boards or sent out emails/texts!!?"

Skynet just got activated

"It's not a security issue, it's an incompetence issue"

As an IT person, I am not surprised this happened. Companies treat IT employees like garbage, underpaying them and treating them as expendable tools, undervaluing their actual worth and dismissing their concerns for security and productivity. I changed careers and moved into field technician work for healthcare equipment after a few years of IT. I don't feel pity for the companies who let this happened.

This is what happens when you fire the subject matter experts in an engineering company for cyber security. C suite played themselves

Nothing NEW - Windows is the most insecure operating systm ever sold. Just Microsoft updates are known to do this as well.

The newbie reporter at the airport did a great report on the fly!

What do people think companies are gonna be able to do? They think if they yell at the staff loud enough that the company will just magically make the worldwide outage affecting practically everyone on earth go away?

This is the Y2K event that was supposed to happen in the year 2000, but it occurred 24 years later.

Now the geeks know why smart people keep automatic updates off. This is one of the problems we warned was with cloud computing.

I work for a major medical transport company our entire system is down, this is a nightmare.

The guy should be the reporter. He's objective, informed, not dramatic. That's what a reporter should be.

The fifth horseman of the apocalypse: software updates

Seriously if they figure out who exactly (an individual human being) was responsible for this, not only should person be fired, but prosecuted. Causing this big a global catastrophe should be criminal

Please advise them to disconnect the device from the power source for approximately 10 seconds and then reconnect it.

This is how fragile the system we live under is no computers no services

I have been up since 130 am fixing our systems thanks to this update.

This is what happens when the world is hooked on ONE operating system.

I wish I didn’t watch the Netflix movie, Leave The World Behind, because now every computer issue freaks me out.

Think about if this happens on a self driving car which totally relies on computer technology, this is why I don't think I can completely trust them yet

You don't need a cyber-attack when you have this kind of issues. For the millions who missed their flights and companies that lost money, how are they compensated??

Im guessing they were all on windows 11. Me being on 10 didn't notice a thing.

“This is a test… this is only a test”

"blue screen of death" Bro is definitely a gamer.

Why do all the worst computer problems involve Microsoft Windows?

I’m off work today, and currently use a MacBook Air. Have a nice day.

CrowdStrike to cyber attackers “Hold my beer”

This is what happens when you are too young for job training and your boss is too old to understand what is going on

The class action lawsuit is going to be insane

That dude shakin his tail feather right behind the reporter the whole time 😂