The Great IT Outage Of 2024

[@macra_]

I work in an IT company and by pure luck, we don't use anything CrowdStrike related for any companies we manage so we've managed to avoid it! But I feel so much for the IT people in the companies that are affected 😔

[@AdamMartyn]

It's gonna be a struggle for them that's for sure!

[@MrSean64]

We appreciate your business and hard work.

[@ChrisHilgenberg]

Same here, we had lots of third-party vendors of products we use that went down, which caused outages on our end, but we didn't have an internal cloud/on-prem items impacted, thankfully. I've been seeing the mega threads on Reddit in dev and sysadmin subreddits, and holy crap the fires they're putting out there. I can't imagine needing to get the manual bitlocker key for 20k BSOD'd computers, but that's a thing happening out there.

[@friendlyotaku9525]

Pretty sure this is what people feared Y2K was going to be... 24 years later!!

[@DanielHowarth00]

In Australia our media networks have been posting memes about it to pass the time between reading news off paper notes One network asked if anyone had the simpsons on tape, another wrote their apology on ms paint... we arent real in this country😂

[@pinkdiamond1847]

I love Australia for this

[@RealJoBoGamer]

This is exactly like how I run my media network

[@mikepanchaud1]

Luckily, Microsoft rang me up this morning and offered to fix my PC, as they were detecting hackers on my PC. I told them to go away...... 😂

[@fishettibean]

They rang me afterwards. They couldn't fix the hackers as well because I was using a Mac 😂

[@DanielHowarth00]

Im in Australia and we lost our pay tv network, the public broadcaster (abc) and even had a radio network go completely dead for hours. The damage to our critical infrastructure was worse - At one stage we also had no functional fuel terminals and lost our interstate rail network entirely

[@DeltaC79]

Did the nbn break

[@whophd]

@@DeltaC79 nope, I didn't even notice anything until I browsed KZbin before going to bed

[@whophd]

By "lost", what does that mean? I was gleefully unaware, just doing real things on real internet with real operating systems

[@DanielHowarth00]

@@whophd the list of technical issues around th3 country is pretty long: All 100 foxtel channels switched to title cards for as much as 6 hours The triple M radio network went to dead air on both DAB and FM nationally Abc TV went off air for a while and ABC radio switched to backup broadcasting Several networks including WIN and ten pulled all their news broadcasts. In real work land: Reports that people were trapped at both fuel terminals at botany because swipe cards stopped working National rail signalling failures across the Aurizon and ARTC networks because if the bluescreen

[@williamhosking9312]

half of my Foxtel channels went off air so i just watched KZbin as my NBN was not affected

[@97channel]

Having grown up in the 80's and 90's, I've witnessed the complete history of the wholesale shift from manual systems, to IT and online infrastructure running the entire world. I think an event like this should be a cautionary tale to have robust manual backup systems in place which can be instantly deployed as effective solutions to outages. When the simple act of buying groceries is rendered impossible, that should highlight the dangers of relying entirely upon IT. But the worrying thing is, I don't think we can actually reverse the reliance now. IT has perhaps mostly changed the world for the better, but we are losing control of simple tasks to being entirely dependant upon it.

[@robustreviews]

@@97channel Didn’t industrial action causes many of the same issues in the 70s/80s?

[@97channel]

@@robustreviews Yes, I take your point. I suppose every system can be taken down, one way or another.

[@robustreviews]

@@97channel You're not wrong to raise the question either, but remember the UK had rolling power cuts during the 1970s because various unions wouldn't dig coal, drive the trains or lorries to move it, or wouldn't tip it in to generating station furnaces. I can't think of anything more 'analogue' that a combination of 1970s industrial action and coal! Same effects, shops shut, no media, all the trappings of modern society suddenly crumble. I make no political point here - I'm just trying to expand this a bit. It's not always a problem with 'modern life' - these issues have their analogues (if you pardon the dreadful unintentional pun) going back a long, long way. You might argue simply human beings are the root issue :)

[@VillaFanDan92]

I was watching the cricket on Sky Sports - and clearly they are having trouble getting access to wherever they store the video files for their adverts - as every so often, there will just been a black screen during the ad breaks for a few seconds before the next ad plays. It's actually quite nice to have a bit of quiet from the adverts lol

[@Redrally]

Well done Delhi My workplace got affected but had diversified the sources of tools and supplied software so we could still work.

[@sasiuru]

You know it is bad when local small grocery shop keeper ask first when you step in to shop "do you know about that, that IT thing, that crashed. not yet affecting me...". And this is a small shop in a rural Finland, they are using tablet and some cloud based point of sale system... (owner knows everybody from this small "town" and therefore knows that I work on IT sector...) Thats when you know that big heap of S has hit the fan. :D

[@BerserkSurvival]

Background in focus ✅ Foreground in focus ❎ the background is more important anyway lol

[@picoultimate7707]

I heard about the outage from my grandmother this morning, but I wasn't affected due to not using Microsoft's online services as much as others. Still, it's awful how badly this has affected even the NHS. Fingers crossed the whole thing can be resolved soon.

[@talibong9518]

It wasn't Microsoft, it was Crowdstrike's fault

[@picoultimate7707]

@@talibong9518 Yeah, I watched the video and noticed.

[@CubeAtlantic]

That is terrible for working people working in that IT/Crowdstrike outage but my Windows 11 PC was working fastly & good this morning.

[@picoultimate7707]

@@CubeAtlantic Same with my Windows 10 one. The outage mainly affected the businesses being backed by Crowdstrike (ala Sky and the BBC).

[@robustreviews]

Purely in television terms, anybody older than about 30 will remember when this stuff was routinely played out from physical media which used to “shit itself” fairly often. It’s not a great state of affairs, but the IBA used to just turn off transmitters for maintenance during the day. In television terms, the fact that a serious breakdown occurs in the days that they are *so rare* causes people to pay attention points to how generally reliable the system actually is. Even the 90s I recall the famous “this program will continue as sound only” or a wobbly breakdown slide and a harried sounding continuity announcer sounding more and more panicked as the minutes ticked by trying to ad-lib were pretty common events. In television terms, actual loss of program is pretty rare today. I would suggest it’s greater that 99.9 “uptime” in modern parlance.

[@-ormsby4443]

Love your eurovision poster in the back ❤❤

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

As an IT Guy myself,I feel sorry for the people working behind the scenes trying to get everything back up and running again. If any of them are reading this,good luck guys!

[@robustreviews]

@@PelinalDidNothingWrong Fair point!

[@pinkdiamond1847]

Thank you IT people 🙏🏼

[@ceninant]

I need sleep but I've been awake so long it's hard.

[@Theresabrown1805]

I haven't noticed any outages yet. I haven't put my tv on today so I haven't noticed any major problems.

[@Markstubation01]

I was just about to finish my shift at work and everything went down.

[@RegularCapital]

Although this was a major outage affecting many things, inside and outside broadcasting, but focusing on UK broadcasting alone, the Red Bee Playout Incident was a bigger disaster due to how long it took for the channels to get back to normal. At least today's issue was fixed very quickly.

[@rogerdarthwell5393]

Cor blimey! An AMTV News video way earlier than scheduled! Good job Adam!

[@MillywiggZ]

Holidays; airports/trains and kids TV go down just before holidays start in the UK. They knew what they were doing hahaa!

[@SophiaSmith24]

U see CBBC is back on air, Energency News on Sky News, and Sky Sports News, which I believe is based in the same studios, is totally off air, But they’ve put the Open Golf on the channel

[@jlelliotton]

This has hit Crowdstrike's stock hard. They closed yesterday at $343.05 and closed today at $304.96 (down 11%) and hit a mid-day low of $290.10.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

If you rely completely on computers for broadcasting, with no backup to go to, do not be surprised when things like this happen..........

[@robustreviews]

What do you mean “a backup”? We aren’t using PAL anymore. There needs to be IT in the system, it’s not 1994 any more.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

@@robustreviews A digital HD broadcast videocassette backup playout system like DigiBeta HD and manual control of all broadcasts / functions, that's what I meant.

[@robustreviews]

@@anthonyperkins7556 But none of that equipment has been supported for at least a decade. I see your point, but I doubt many broadcasters want to start keeping duplicates of playout on expensive, temperamental, expensive to maintain devices that no longer are supported? It should be considered these were loss of program transmissions, not a meltdown of the network. You had to watch a _slide_ for a bit ultimately.

[@SideQuestStories]

@@robustreviews That fact is in itself worrying. The world would be pretty much screwed if we ever had an intense solar flare or something.

[@robustreviews]

@@SideQuestStories Yep, but consider program playout is only a piece of the puzzle. The Tx equipment would be utterly destroyed in the first instance (being connected to a huge antenna n’all) I wager so worrying about program storage is probably low down the priorities list. If it happens, and the effects predicted happen, it’ll go full _Threads_ anyway so ultimately what’s to do?! 😂 Film would be the only real solution, if you want to hold it up to the light and watch it frame by frame with no sound 😂

[@Ese96Agoaye]

This reminds me of when Sky Sports News abruptly went off air back in 2015.

[@Sadarak1980]

Its crowdstrike thats the issue (think anti virus for enterprise environments but it does other stuff). They released an update that caused BSODs on machines using it. Any companies using it had many machines, clients and servers do this, hence the outages. (Im an it system support officer for the nhs).

[@DavidDoom95]

If I saw Shaun the Sheep in CBBC, and a static card was played instead, I would be confused.

[@rackeyzun]

So urgent he had to upload a video at a time that isn’t 6pm

[@AdamMartyn]

Mad urgent 😂

[@rogerdarthwell5393]

@@AdamMartyn Have to say it, if RXTVinfo ever decide to start their own youtube channel, they should seriously hire you, you are a brilliant journalist!

[@MrNweth]

So urgent he didn't have time to do his hair or was that to do with the IT outage

[@mnky75]

I've been in meetings all day, with some of the guys at the top asking about Linux servers. MS has seemed to have really messed it's trousers over this one.

[@ThibaudVall]

In disneyland Paris, every information screen, including the queue time, were not working

[@JennyAnnTea]

We did have power problems also in the hospital but kicked over to the generators which thankfully were recently replaced. They kept everything going but A&E was absolutely rammed as people couldn’t get in touch with their doctors as the phone lines were down. The most major problem was some of the lifts wouldn’t work which caused patients in beds to miss appointment slots. As far as patient records go, everything’s backed up on good old paper! And also patient appointments are written down as well as going on the computers. Our scanners and X-ray machines weren’t affected

[@robspereall8203]

Apparently the UK's train network was at a complete standstill on Friday... nothing to do to with the IT issue, just another normal day at the office as far as they were concerned!

[@VW_Fan]

I work for the IT department at an Airport. It has been a nightmare, we have all essential services running but still haven't fully recovered.

[@joeharley1423]

Me, a Linux user, who has the ability to manually update my system: “I fucking warned you lot, and you didn’t listen.” The methods used by Crowdstrike and other Microsoft-like groups - including MS themselves - make situations like this harder to deal with than they *should* be. I’ve been saying it for years that a situation like this would happen for some piece of mission critical proprietary software and lo-and-behold years later I’ve been proved right.

[@marcd6897]

This is not OS specific, but only shows poor IT administration processes. Why do you allow a software to update itself across a large numbers of PCs you administer automatically without letting it run through an approval process first. If administering more than 5 PCs, any automatic update process for anything is a big No-No. Using the “wrong” administration tool, you can brick any OS (been there, got the T-shirt)…

[@steeviebops]

@@marcd6897 While this is true for application or Windows updates, I don't know of anyone who manually approves AV/EDR updates. I also wouldn't want to be the one tasked with doing this, as it increases the risk of a new threat gaining entry to the system during the staging window.

[@marcd6897]

@@steeviebops yeah, but this is just an organizational issue. In contrast to the multi-billion dollar issue we now had, I guess approving isn’t such a bad idea. And my guess is, whatever bricked Windows yesterday within the Crowdstrike application suite, it wasn’t just a pattern (which I agree should go through). And my guess is that we will never know, just because CrowdStrike is certainly already in a damage control mode.

[@inny74]

CrowdStrike also broke Linux distros previously, so its not really a "SEE!! Windows Bad!" moment. More like "Incompetence from a cybersecurity firm" moment.

[@Jimbob_Offical]

I think what's happened is that CBBC and Sky News might use a sever running on windows while the other BBC channels will likely run on a Linux based server.

[@earthluma]

I would also think it's probably macOS based (just like me!)

[@Jimbob_Offical]

@@earthluma I don’t think Mac server are a real thing anymore, Apple isn’t in the server business as much as they used to be.

[@robustreviews]

@@Jimbob_Offical it’s not “a server” - program origin to Tx is a long and complicated path involving a host of companies. I would imagine CBBC is played out by Red Bee Media, which is probably where the issue was. Lots of “experts” chatting here who have no idea how these transmission systems _actually_ work.

[@Jimbob_Offical]

@@robustreviews Well you seem to know your stuff, but for the record I’m not a self proclaimed expert. I’m just a student who is studying broadcast engineering, and has learnt the workflow of broadcasting. I’m just making educated assumptions from what I know. Funny enough the media city base of Red Bee is right above my lecture room.

[@robustreviews]

@@Jimbob_Offical That's really cool, wish I would have studied something like that! Good luck with it, I'm sure it's fascinating! I'm a VT machine nerd with lots of broadcast equipment from yesteryear, but I stress Tx isn't my area. What I do know, is that it is a lot more complicated than most appreciate. Red Bee handle all of the BBC playout as far as I'm aware (I'm not an expert on BBC internals but I've picked up a bit my osmosis over the years); BBC Parliament being the sole exception which I can't off-hand explain away. Maybe because it's mostly live? I think as most broadcasters move in to the "publishing" realm coupled with a now far more stratified broadcast landscape it makes sense to hand it off to a third party. Until a decade or two ago all the UK facing BBC had to do was output to the main transmitting stations in 625-UHF days. Add in digital broadcast complexity, online streaming, satellite uplink it's not a case of "push it down the pipe to Crystal Palace" (I stress, I mean that in the *figurative* sense) anymore. I won't pretend I'm an expert on this but I think all the major broadcasters (and some of the minority ones) use Red Bee Media to deal with everything once the single source leaves the studio. Red Bee I believe also handle subtitling and associated program services. I'm happy to be corrected if somebody has greater knowledge though, this really isn't my area, like I said, just bits (possibly half remembered) I've picked up over the years through contacts in Beeb.

[@caseyf14483]

Mercedes's F1 Team is powered by Crowdstrike, and there's a Grand Prix this weekend 💀

[@sasiuru]

Just wondering if there were some busy bees around the equipment when this broke out... Current F1 cars are nice paper weights without that massive IT system around them... :P

[@yvonnerogers6429]

Thanks for the summary. That was well done. 👍🏻

[@canalpretocl]

“We urge patients to be patient…”

[@AdamMartyn]

Unintentional iconic line 👌

[@coleisforrobot]

Oh wow. I thought that was just an issue with my train station.

[@BBCSPCPortlandTigerL]

How the freak that I need to go to BBC broadcasting house to fix the CBBC problem??????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[@Stephie2007]

Over here in my neck of the woods (the US), the local Lunchtime broadcast was having trouble with showing news footage and transitions between said footage for stories and the news anchor on duty, Ryan Houston at the news desk.

[@Teknikah]

Yep, in the NHS, if your records have been "digitalised" and uploaded to your digital record. Those physical papers that were scanned have been destroyed. Staff have zero access to any of your info

[@Roadent1241]

Which is why you have yours on paper, it's not that difficult. Most people's stuff will fit onto two pages because they've got naff all problems.

[@robustreviews]

@@Roadent1241 Because paper notes never went missing, were never adulterated and were absolutely ideal should you be taken ill anywhere except your local medical facility. Cue fax machines and hoping that the patient record department aren't too busy. I guess when you add on medical imaging the digital system is far better. 2 sheets of A4 for 65,000,000 people is an awful lot of pieces of paper!

[@Teknikah]

@@Roadent1241 the notes include everything. Not just your "current" illnesses. There's such thing as a "brief summary" but those can be a number of pages themselves. It gives the last X amount of written consultations, the last X months of test results, immunisations, current and past medication, adverse reactions, and current and past problems. From the other reply, I remember during COVID GP was absolutely dead. No one was calling. We had the first opportunity in forever to go A-Z through every single paper record and we found sooooo many that were marked as "lost" because they'd been misfiled or the name had changed but not on the paper so it wasn't recognised as that person. We had to request a huge amount of labels to return the notes we no longer needed to keep. Before the digital notes if your GP misfiled your notes and no one could find them, that was it. There were plenty of instances where we'd routinely request notes from previous GPs for patients newly registered and we'd get a reply saying they couldn't find them.

[@Roadent1241]

@@robustreviews It is but that's normal. Imagine how much paper is used in schools lol and none of that is important.

[@robustreviews]

@@Roadent1241 - An how many pieces of school work need to be stored under a raft of legal conditions, kept in such a way that it can not be adulterated, has strictly controlled access and needs to potentially be near-immediately searchable going back for up to 75 years?

[@Lilleh__]

I get home from holiday and find out about this outage.

[@WeAreSTV1_Inc]

I wasnt expecting a video this early.

[@AdamMartyn]

I work fast 👀

[@WeAreSTV1_Inc]

Oh and BBC One & Two are expected to go down at midday

[@Markstubation01]

@@AdamMartyndoing the lord’s work

[@SimonBlandford]

Crowdstrike is for people who think that "security" involves handing absolute control and trust of servers to some external third party who say they are going to "protect" you.

[@baileyhaggan4]

I never thought id see the day an early video from Adam Martyn

[@agentmarky5493]

I personally would be very cautious dealing with a company named CROWD STRIKE !!

[@mbvideoselection]

It's nice to have a break from Teams, Yammer, Delve, PowerBI, Flow, Channels, etc. etc. for a few hours.

[@KRPTV]

Affected me at work too!

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

I'm lucky as we use older systems at work, so we weren't affected, but other businesses were completely shut down, and by the time i got back, everything seemed to be back up.

[@MarkAJAgi]

Should never trust anybody else to store all your data. Always keep a local copy on hard drives in your building. Should always have a mirror site of your website, so you can switch by pointing the domain to a different home page.

[@asterickjones]

Annoyingly I found that my documents folder had been put only on the cloud, so this would be unavailable during this, when I didn't want them moved from local storage.

[@areasquirrel]

It almost passed me by. Couldn't download on demand stuff on Sky, just assumed it was a normal server outage, no biggie, come back a couple of hours of later. Went back to bed. Time zones making a difference to experience, I guess. Having been in hospital recently, the implications are chilling, a 'minimally invasive' procedure such as I recently had would suddenly become serious. Reminds me of the routine on Mock the Week about how these inventions are things we should really appreciate having in this age, yet they go down for more than 5 seconds, and suddenly we scream that they're useless.

[@deepred6502]

Where nuclear warheads failed to knock out the Internet, monopoly ensihttification is succeeding.

[@yui4779]

I was at my local train station this morning and Great Northern services from Moorgate had to use platforms 1 and 4 at Stevenage

[@arthurvasey]

A company created to prevent software issues has actually caused the issues that it was designed to prevent?

[@jukesy1992]

You can't make this stuff up...

[@Diogo85]

Microsoft didn't cause this problem, accidents and incidents happen.

[@frollogaming]

I live in Australia and my antenna stopped working for a good few hours 😂

[@Dean256]

I’ve had a great day off work because of this. Took my company all day to fix it… thanks Croudstrike…

[@CharlestonRat]

I was definitely among the lucky ones. I've banned myself from the news for the past four years, so when I went to get my train tickets to meet a friend, the man in the office telling me about "the problems that Microsoft are having" was the first I'd heard of the global outage. He did manage to get me my train tickets with very little hassle, though.

[@5340robert]

Sky Sports News was also affected as they showed a repeat of the previous nights programme this morning in place of good morning sports fans. Also later in the morning an towards lunch time they showed live coverage of the open golf tournament when they would have usually shown the usual sports news stuff and football transfer updates etc.

[@MillywiggZ]

It’s one of those moments like the bizarre TV ‘Emmerdale’ and other episodes during (that virus) you want to catch a recording of.

[@libman2006]

Been saying it for 10 years. Keep your software available offline. Otherwise things like this happen. There's a reason i still run Office 2013 on a Windows 7 VM (VM so I can isolate it from the internet because lack of security updates). Strange how us Linux users dont seem to get these issues.

[@stevegreen5552]

Yep. Win7 without automatic updates for me too. If pushed, I still have a Win98SE desktop PC without an Internet connection so could perform basic office tasks. I also prefer physical media to streaming, opting for ownership rather than unstable rental. Am I a luddite? Possibly, but my laptop isn't a brick.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

What if you actually need an Internet connection to do your Job?

[@Tudify]

He recorded this so early that everything was out of focus

[@AdamMartyn]

Aye apologies for that! 😂 it does sort itself out later on in the vid!

[@Tudify]

@@AdamMartynomg you replied 😂 a true KZbinr!

[@TwoThousandStu]

Society: hey, let's digitise everything. Online only is the future! Physical media is dead! We're shutting down linear TV! Big tech company that no one has ever heard of: *releases buggy software update, frying billions of computer systems across the world* Why did we throw away all those floppies and cartridges?

[@robustreviews]

Because no physical media was ever lost forever in fire or flood….

[@jukesy1992]

To be honest, I think this also brings back the case for enabling a toggle to turn off automatic updates, for all versions of an operating system. The fact Windows 11 home doesn't let you turn that feature off is still concerning, doubly so now. Cloud isn't and hasn't been the future. IT's a convenience and nothing more.

[@axethepenguin]

Because floppies were well floppy and held like 4 MB? And you are wondering why we don’t use them in 2024

[@robustreviews]

@@axethepenguin 1.44Mb in the case of the floppy that most will be thinking of. Physical media is horrendously flawed too - as said if it was that marvellous we would have stuck with it. People confusing “the cloud” with the service that stores their mobile phone pictures with the sheer, almost unappreciable huge amount of storage required in broadcast…

[@SideQuestStories]

@@robustreviews No, we stuck with it because it is better in the current situation on the assumption that that situation will remain the case forever.

[@francisdunne8542]

Belfast airport were using a whiteboard also

[@nigelfreeman6192]

We rely to much on computer technology. This should be a wake call to all. Can you imagine what would happen if this was more than just a few hours, but days, the world would grind to halt.

[@account-now-closed]

*rely too much on Windows. This wouldn't happen on Linux

[@Diogo85]

Computers have been a thing since the 1950s, possibly earlier.

[@beltingtokra]

Great video, lots of radio stations were affected as well as those 2 TV channels. So much for "digital first"😂 Also you're a little out of focus 👀

[@alchappers_g4ptv]

I'm surprised how the world relies on one big company for security and that one company pushes out an update that completely bricks everything

[@victoriaharbach5968]

I can see channel 5 make documentary about the IT outage of 2024 soon

[@stevegreen5552]

Even though I used to work in IT, the over reliance on computers and the Internet has been a concern of mine for some time. Eggs in baskets comes to mind. TV migrating to streaming, landlines (and emergency services) reliant on an Internet connection - not just mains electricity - is lauded as progress when in reality it is a depreciation of quality. This IT fiasco highlights the problems that have been building for a while.

[@account-now-closed]

Also a reliance on Windows

[@robthemodYT]

Now this a couple of months old, I believe the only reason it affected those two specific channels was due to the fact they were both broadcasting live programming. CBBC was fine until they reached Newsround then couldn't get out of it - the reason why I think this is the hosts of Morning Live on BBC 1 said 'we're prepared to stay on air until the news at one if we have to' right at the start which hints at that. BBC 2 wouldn't have been airing anything live at that time, ITV would have been GMB, Lorraine, LW, News at One, Channel 4 is all pre-recorded at that time, Channel 5 would have Jeremy Vine live until half 11 and then all the other channels would be all pre-recorded.

[@hayleywaalen2612]

Poor Microsoft!

[@hexandcube]

Microsoft had nothing to do with this. It was caused by Crowdstrike pushing a faulty update to their customers.

[@Diogo85]

Why do people believe Microsoft did this? Is the company becoming a scapegoat now?

[@chrisburns7979]

was a nightmare day and will probably continue into monday

[@phil1506]

Manual boarding cards and check in is common at airports and the manual process is a well oiled contingency although takes longer

[@Vinnytv7679]

Well was a grand strike of information technology, various countries has affected, in my country (🇧🇷) one airline company (and other two but in minor proportions), the supreme court, three airports, two harbors, moblie telephonical companies, bank apps and a tv station (Record) was affected due to this problems.

[@mastersingleton]

This shows that how bad it is if you rely on one Technology Vendor and that vendor has a major outage.

[@account-now-closed]

I can't wait to see the amount of new linux users coming from this

[@TheOne_6]

Not a good day for Crowdstrike lol

[@RebeccaPhythian]

No internet and the world seems to collapse 😮‍💨 Sigh

[@AdamMartyn]

Sad times 😔

[@PhilipMurphy8Extra]

IT failures so much worldwide

[@jlelliotton]

Of course if you were running Linux (or IBM z/OS, IBM i, HP-UX. etc.) rather than Windows you would not have had any impact. And the problem was Crowdstrike Falcon so if you don't use that in your business no problems.

[@MrGurubill]

Foxtel was massivly impacted here in Australia. Although it did lead to something a little funny. Most of the channels were taken down because of the outage, however out of all of the channels Foxtel owns, one of the only channels that kept broadcasting during the outage was the WWE Channel. I guess it just shows that wrestling never stops! 😂😂😂

[@jukesy1992]

Oh my gosh that's hilarious.

[@megatronskneecap]

The backlash Microsoft is going to receive for the millions lost during this is wild 😂

[@CyberGrapeUK]

Seems more like Crowdstrike is getting hell rather than Microsoft

[@megatronskneecap]

@@CyberGrapeUK Microsoft is the company allowing remote management software to control wether it crashes their entire OS or not.

[@Rick-vm8bl]

@@megatronskneecap No, the individual companies using Windows and paying for Crowdstrike are the ones allowing it to run. It's not built into Windows, it's added on by enterprises.

[@kieranboulton3953]

​@@megatronskneecapAnyone can develop software and drivers for Windows, Microsoft have no control over that.

[@marcd6897]

@@megatronskneecapno, it’s poor IT administrative procedures to let a software automatically deploy updates to a crucial application that sits so deep inside the OS and then can brick the OS.

[@MillywiggZ]

Don’t get comfortable, always back everything up and have a separate backup not connected to the internet.

[@pbscatcher]

many Viacom networks crashed here in the states, crazy stuff

[@rattyfus8218]

I worked in IT for yonks and we had to TEST stuff before releasing it. Nobody bothers these days because, well, if there are bugs the users will tell us, right? Nice heads up, Adam.

[@AlexMitchell-sj4sb]

Well I didnt get my Morrison home delivery but the electricity was still on and my water was, so so what

[@roberttbrockway]

The third pillar of security is availability.

[@richardsharpe2966]

Hello Adam love your videos and the bandana

[@AdamMartyn]

Thank you!

[@richardsharpe2966]

​@@AdamMartyn I got one as well a rainbow LGBT one ❤

[@richardbutler4488]

Sky News looks better in the classic basic studio, maybe they should keep it up 👍 never a fan of the over snazzy shopping center studio look 👀 Sky went for a few years ago after they abandoned the blue look 😅

[@glasshousemtns]

1:58 what is she doing with her hands? Isn’t that a secret society secret hand sign saying ‘we are in control of this, we did it on purpose’.

[@hexandcube]

If anything, the CrowdStrike incident has clearly shown that something is terribly wrong with modern journalism. This incident has nothing to do with Windows or Microsoft (other than the fact that it only affected Windows users). This incident only affects customers of Crowdstrike who use their Falcon software. Crowdstrike pushed a faulty update for Falcon Sensor that included corrupted kernel drivers, which prevented Windows from booting (resulting in a BSOD). Pretty much all mainstream media just copied misinformation from each other saying that it was caused by Microsoft pushing a faulty Windows update, which made many people think that this incident affects all Windows users. The Azure (Microsoft cloud platform) outage that happen earlier is a completely different, unrelated incident, that only affected their cloud services and Microsoft 365. The "Journalists" who without having any IT knowledge just connected them both without thinking or verifying the information, and just straight up started lying to people about what actually happened.

[@steeviebops]

This. 100%. I'm not shy about being critical of Microsoft but this has nothing to do with them.

[@F2SOnYouTube]

Microsoft right now: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@jukesy1992]

We've been saying for years, automatic updates a bad thing. People wonder why I don't update automatically, and it's to avoid critical bugs like this! I'm blind, and if an update breaks screen reader accessibility I'd also consider that a critical bug as well.

[@Diogo85]

Courtesy of Crowdstrike.

[@Ashleyander22]

I see it adam

[@messystudios8505]

I was supposed to have over £1,000 deposited in my bank account on Friday. (Money i DESPERATLY need) I wont have it until Monday at least now because the transaction is only processed on "buisness days"

[@centrevezgaming4862]

The Y2K bug : Electric Boogaloo

[@whophd]

Yeah this is what the Y2K bug would have been, if we didn't do a ton of work to add 2 digits to everything. Sadly the work was barely begun by 1997, all very last minute. People were begging for attention since 1993.

[@mbvideoselection]

​@@whophdY2K was one of the biggest conspiracy theories going. Money for no rope. Very little, if anything, would have been impacted. What WAS the problem were 2050 and 2080 problems for systems that can only record years from 50-49 (1950-2049) or 80-79 (1980-2079). No critical computer systems were stupid enough to have been designed to record two digit years from 1900. Not even Microsoft Excel (which serious IT Devs are always mightily derogatory about). Nearly all of the Y2K testing concluded "no action necessary" but made a nice pocketful of cash for all those involved. Meanwhile all the major banks STILL process their transactions at the highest level by AS/400 mainframes which still can't process dates beyond 2049.

[@Diogo85]

Nope.

[@whophd]

@@mbvideoselection dude, who actually worked on these systems? They were EVERYWHERE, designed before 1990, or 1993 usually. Most not famous. Forget Excel, but plenty of things would been "outage today", transactional stuff, bureaucratic stuff, not planes falling out of skies. Not saying 2050 and 2080 aren't an issue. But isn't that really just Y2K in reality? It's 2-digit date fields all over again. They were supposed to be upgrade to 4-digit and the can got kicked down the road?

[@grumpyhale821]

I wonder what was causing problems at work...

[@AndrewKerr5]

Mercedes AMG F1 Team almost could not start their F1 cars in Hungary this weekend too.

[@VICERACTRIVOX]

The Female SKY News Anchor Suspiciously Forming The Illuminati Sign With Her Hands There!

[@CubeAtlantic]

The IT engines via British channels & some airports in the USA & Canada are rerouted & ruining weaker.

[@Patty2579]

Pete Tongs concert also got cancelled

[@steeviebops]

This was unfortunate for Microsoft in my opinion, as they're getting much of the blame from the news outlets. They did have an issue earlier in the night, which was a storage failure in the Central US Azure region. This was only likely to affect clients in the US and was unrelated to the faulty CrowdStrike update, which had a global impact.

[@lenmarfox2947]

Morrisons was not taking any contactless payments, however chip and pin is working, good thing I always use cash.

[@CarolineFord1]

There are two main GP software systems. This broke EMIS.