Microsoft Outage: What We Know So Far

[@HRMColoniallifeinsurance]

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?

[@WhitneyRoss-dj4rf]

It's pretty concerning. If they can fix this, what other control do they have over our infrastructure? or are we truly in the matrix?

[@WhitneyRoss-dj4rf]

Probably from her forecast on Nvidia before the pump. But how are you in the greens with all the fluctuations due to the election and everything else? Can you share her strategy?

[@HRMColoniallifeinsurance]

It's quite concerning to ponder the potential disruptions this outage may bring if it persists. Our dependence on the internet for various aspects of our lives is truly significant.

[@WhitneyRoss-dj4rf]

Definitely. It’s times like these when having a solid financial strategy is crucial. I think I’ll look her up and see if she can help me out too.

[@HRMColoniallifeinsurance]

Alright, I'm convinced. With the economy so unstable, having a reliable advisor is more important than ever.

[@paulsandford3345]

And they are constantly pushing for a cashless society? Yeah, good one!

[@MollyMcBooter]

Oh thank Godzilla other people can connect these dots easy AF now

[@maryt8377]

Cashless society ? Hell no !

[@magnuskallas]

Cahsless is crime / full blown commie. Why pay tax when none is secure?

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

very good point!

[@magnuskallas]

@@AleksandarIvanov69 Hence they devalue cash and pension funds. Illegal benefits going around... scummy no product product as service cloud freakshow.

[@jaywalks9918]

Oh, please. The software update wasn't tested fully before release, and that's due to CrowdStrike's incompetence.

[@sebastianflood5540]

And he says be nice to the it guy 😅

[@CrystalisedWorld]

@@forbidden-cyrillic-handle or its the diversity and inclusion rather than real IT people?

[@mubashir7343]

You’re implying as if Microsoft ever tested their updates? Keep updating windows and you keep running into problems due to these incessant updates

[@effortlessclipz7506]

@@forbidden-cyrillic-handleeither way they know what they signed up for and that’s no excuse to to not give it your all to keep maintenance at bay

[@zeeunveil1324]

Crowdstrike is a live AI that provides real time updates, which means, updates are created automatically without tests. It’s AI making a mistake, a fat one

[@bongx6074]

Skynet is aware now 💀

[@RisingInTheFlesh]

Hollywood infected your brain

[@happyyardservice2914]

Finally.

[@Gsoda35]

no way. this just a minor technicality.

[@roberthendrickson2939]

Yes

[@ElveeKaye]

Hope it's smarter than this guy.

[@acenda-r2d2]

This is CrowdStrike, not Microsoft. CrowdStrike runs a new Generative AI Based cybersecurity system called Falcon. This is the first Global incident of how AI can and will completely control us.

[@WiseSloth1978]

AI identified windows to be a big 😅

[@austinehasz3907]

So you’re saying buy the MSFT dip ? Already got my buy orders in

[@sinistan1002]

yeah but because windows has such a bad history with security and it's still prevalent on desktops for companies, this and other services are pitched as a good idea to install and use. if it wasn't this it could be microsoft sso or any other thing running on azure or aws or somewhere else

[@kokodzambo3320]

M$ choice... to rely on this...

[@gky5462]

Owned by Thales - military company

[@robblankenstein6825]

Did they try turning it off and on again?

[@easternstar7205]

Lol 😂

[@jamemule5326]

Maybe 😂

[@Jazztache]

Crowdstrike is the kind of bloated monolithic software that is a magnet for BSODs. On Linux, software like this is split into multiple dependencies and packages that are installed separately, but all at once. Linux should be the operating system for government and enterprise.

[@troffle]

Yeah, problem. Crowdstrike is also taking down Linux installations. According to the Crowdstrike community Github, there are three kernel modules. Two are "licenced" GPL BUT HAVE NO SOURCES. The third one is licenced "Proprietary". So it looks like their development process for kernel modules ain't following the typical Kernel Maintainer procedures. So I'd love to see Crowdstrike taken to court (say in Germany where the GPL has been upheld in court). Then again, I'd like to see Microsoft get trashed in court too.

[@Thegbear]

​@troffle The difference is, this update doesn't automatically push to your machine on Linux without your permission or knowledge.

[@troffle]

@@Thegbear You sure about that? I don't know. Where I worked, there was a central controller for Crowdstrike updates and I thought they treated Linux Crowdstrike identically to Windows. The INITIAL INSTALL had to be done manually because we didn't manage Linux installs, but once the install was in you were at Crowdstrike's mercy.

[@Thegbear]

@troffle Ahh yep didn't think about that. Though, you should definitely be manually rolling your updates out, rather than letting them be automated by a controller, entirely because of this scenario.

[@jojolafrite90]

It is for armies and anything serious.

[@AlgoSurfer]

Crowdstrike has not followed good IT practice by not deploying a phased or staggered update. This is all by design....

[@mamzellilooo]

Great video. *I was a process control engineer (just retired 2/21/24) I would always stress test my projects just to make sure it would work under all conditions.* Also depending on the government. *But I found away of earning more income despite my Retirement. $67k weekly returns has been life changing, after so much struggles.*

[@babytruca02]

wow this awesome 👏 I'm 37 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how do I make such weekly??

[@mamzellilooo]

@@babytruca02Maria Angelina Alexander I really appreciate her efforts and transparency.

[@mamzellilooo]

I remember giving her my first savings $20000 and she opened a brokerage account for me it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.

[@mamzellilooo]

My outlook on money changed when I realized someone making $200K can retire broke & someone making $80K can retire a millionaire. With the current market movement.

[@KuramaUchiha-id1ow]

You're correct!! I make a lot of money without relying on the government. Investing in stocks and digital currencies is beneficial at this moment.

[@arclux]

Its OK guys. Just put all your faith in these systems and all of your personal data online. Nothing can go wrong.

[@TÜRK_ALP]

Sadly, there's no way around it... Unless otherwise?

[@arclux]

@TÜRK_ALP If these companies were actually held accountable instead of having their liability limited by their lapdog politicians, then things might change.

[@-astrangerontheinternet6687]

@@TÜRK_ALP You don’t want what they got.

[@TÜRK_ALP]

@-astrangerontheinternet6687 what do you mean? I'm lost...

[@-astrangerontheinternet6687]

@@TÜRK_ALP excuse me. There’s no way around it, unless you don’t want what they got. If they’ve got nothing you want, they can’t manipulate you. That’s all I mean to say.

[@tejabajaj127]

Crowdstrike is dead now. They will have to pay compensation. It will be in billions.

[@VinayKumar-hi9oq]

@JimAllen-Persona After a Major Incident like this, Companies \ Business Units penalize MS Azure for down time. Hence in return will effect on crowd strike. He might meant that. 🤷‍♂

[@lefteriseleftheriades7381]

I read half an article and can explain it better than their expert. This crowstrike antivirus installs a driver on the machine so that it has kernel level privilages. This driver got updated to a faulty one. Unlike regular applications which if they crash it's only themselves that suffer, drivers that crash take down the whole operating system. To fix the issue you need to boot to safemode where only the essential drivers load, and delete the problematic driver file

[@AlexandrosFotiadis]

Why does Windows not automatically restart in safemode after a blue screen ?

[@yaotecatltleyotlocelopilli3132]

Best explanation I found so far, 🤌 thank you

[@Crukren89]

Best comment on here. Nicely explained, to the poster below. A Operating system just can't automatically restart without manual override (from the operator) to safemode. You have other options such as debugging, driver enforcement, configurations of anti malware systems etc that are options. Windows is no designed to do that as its a dangerous to the OS. OP sounds like a IT pro so if im wrong he can give a definitive answer. Great question though.

[@lefteriseleftheriades7381]

@@AlexandrosFotiadis i think windows will enter automatic repair & recovery mode if it fails to boot 3 times in a row. I think from there you also have the ability to delete the faulty driver

[@tommysmith5479]

The expert is not very expert.... only systems that run CrowdStrike Falcon were affected. There are plenty of MicroSoft systems that don't run CrowdStrike Falcon and so were unaffected. Also, there are many non MicroSoft systems out there - which were not affected. Thus, we are not reliant on one system. However, that said, there does appear to be many systems running CrowdStrike Falcon... my company has only recently moved over to it - we used to have Kaspersky but, well, you know....

[@Vigyyy]

That doesn't explain the 365 apps crashing?

[@johnniequinn3215]

@@VigyyyRelated effect on 365 servers according to MS. Who also reported 365 should be back up.

[@kitezopo2593]

If I run a company... I will run my company of 50% with Kaspersky and 50% with Crowdstrike.

[@CyclingSteve]

@@Vigyyy I'm thinking MS are also using it on 365 and as a result those services lost server capacity.

[@zlackbiro]

As an IT professional, I believe that using Microsoft services in a serious company is a significant mistake. All services should be installed on-site, and all databases and software should be designed to run exclusively on the Linux operating system. No third-party services or software should be involved.

[@johnnykeys1978]

@@zlackbiro that's what I've been saying for years (and doing in my own business) but Ive learned that because it requires actual thought, most people won't do it.

[@edolezel87]

Dude’s there nervously smiling while “explaining” the world literally crashing 😂

[@jeffclark5268]

Good thing more of the world runs on Linux than windows

[@BeeLZBeeb]

That shrug as he grins 😂

[@OFinn77]

​@@jeffclark5268 Not even remotely true, in any part of the world. 🤣

[@glynnsmith4560]

Linux are us. Never seen a blue screen that wasn't Arch wallpaper.

[@paulhunter_]

Haha this!

[@troffle]

stop it, I'm telling you now from my Devuan Linux box, Linuxes running Crowdstrike are also getting hit. Look it up.

[@abhijeetas7886]

not vaniclla arch user. but endeavour OS instead 🤝

[@supertigerroadtrip5193]

Yea instead my Arch system just freezes when it has a Kernel panic (only happened once in 10 years tho)

[@ballecerdigital]

lots of issues

[@shreddathomeJoCR7]

I don't think these many questions are to be answered by Ben

[@radheysrivastava73]

Australian New channels are fun to watch,... you guys are smiling all the time...that's really good, where others in (US and elsewhere) are cribbing about even a pindrop...keep it up

[@kingdomgirl4life]

I got a feeling that Apple stock go up and the Microsoft stock would go down

[@Jazztache]

Apple doesn't do servers. Linux is king in the server space.

[@jasonwalton3013]

According to gravity, apples only go down

[@PandaJP77]

It's about EDR XDR silitions, The only winner from this are Sentilone, Microsoft, Cyberreason and TrendMicro

[@Bexploserpro]

@@jasonwalton3013 Newton agree's

[@abhijeetas7886]

​@@Jazztache as it should be, like hell a microsoft server would be any more reliable than a rat pressing buttons on said server.

[@tindansandow8823]

Corporate workers Right now: 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@SFCFilms]

This raises more questions for me than it actually answers. Most servers are on unix or linux system, how can an update on Microsoft effect them? Even if some are on microsoft servers, why is it so wide spread?

[@portman8909]

There needs to be more competition in this space.

[@zesteecheeze]

Please, overlords, tell me again why switching to a completely digital ID and payment system is good

[@webspec]

Govs and enterprises should just move to unix systems. Ive managed unix systems that have been up and running longer than teenagers Ive met. Windows needs reboots and cold patches, what a pain. Unix is real reliability. Windows cant even handle file names longer than 260 letters. Folders named aux or tmp. Or open 2 Office documents of the same name from different folders. Why.

[@antonio.x22]

are unix or linux 100$ reliable and perfect systems? absolutely free of any bug and are they free of fails with warantee of security and impossible to fail or crash?

[@troffle]

To be fair, Linux running Crowdstrike is also apparently affected. Three kernel modules. Two are licenced GPL but HAVE NO SOURCES. The third one is proprietary.

[@sinistan1002]

some companies still are using unix proper aix and maybe even solaris but most of the internet backend is already running on linux servers or vms for backend services. even on microsofts own aws linux instances out number windows server itself. using windows server for anything is a bad idea indeed but this is simply over reliances on cloud services and is a client / desktop problem since it's security related. windows for desktop is still prevalent and that is the problem here. it's likely worse if they were using windows server instances though

[@KAWAYUSU]

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[@troffle]

@@antonio.x22 You mean like Microsoft Windohwait.

[@KingTrump2024]

Might want to change the title before Microsoft sues for slander and defamation !

[@BrianButterworth-s4z]

Truth is an absolute defense to defamation.

[@the13nth25]

"Now been dubbed" as an IT professional I find this hilarious😅

[@myunknownland9272]

Not funny!!!

[@the13nth25]

@@myunknownland9272 lol

[@melissarainchild]

What, strikes me is the light-hearted mood...actually, that is encouraging....

[@zeveroarerules]

So you discovered the BSOD after what... 40 years?

[@BitcoinProphecy]

This isn’t a funny story! This caused extremely dangerous situations that could cause people to die especially in hospitals

[@kitcat4512]

Perhaps there is an update to global government tech centers?

[@VedaSay]

Its Friday morning here in US. Great start with this clip! I know the day is going to be tough.

[@hogwash1462]

Ridiculous to claim that sometimes we make a mistake and laugh. Test fixes before you roll out live and enable roll back. Just very poor engineering practices. We could deal with this stuff in the 70s and 80s for crying out loud.

[@TheTardisDreamer]

That dude isn't actually from Crowdstrike. He's just an IT expert. But also there have been plenty of major IT failures since computers were introduced. It just so happens this one is disasterous because of how interconnected our major systems are now. It was a cybersecurity system that went down. It protects major systems from data breaches, cyber attacks etc. In the past, a lot of it wasn't necessary, or it was a major problem. I'm a gen z (or more a zillenial) and I remember when computer viruses were a huge problem. We had such a bad virus that we had to reinstall Windows. Systems have become a lot more sophisticated, which comes with risks when something like this happens. Crowdstrike will be in a lot of hot water so it's not like they're going to get off scott-free.

[@stephencook7517]

Agreed this smells like poor release and change practice

[@BondJFK]

CI/CD and Agile is working in full potential 🤣

[@aureliocorrida6115]

They turned SKYNET on they did didn’t they!!??

[@OwlDustyGaming76]

Well lets get ready for judgement day

[@sandrafoxley735]

in times gone by we tested things every which way before going live - by the 1990's companies were starting to look for quick fixes and fast results - it became the norm to release knowing full well testing had not been comprehensive and bugs were in existence (just think of the post office and fujitsu with the horizon scandal) - and the concept of documenting systems had started to disappear long before that - many companies had no documentation at all, let alone not knowing they had bugs in their paid for systems...............

[@crikycrocky]

And in times gone by things still went wrong and had to be rolled back and errors or oversights fixed. When dealing with millions of lines of code even with automated testing, things can get missed. I mean just look over the comments and see how much bad speeling there is because people typed in two letters instead of 1 or typed a d instead of an s now think what could happen if some small sub section gets missed or wrongly called... Global outage

[@hcw_0106]

Quality assurance is not their thing! It's incomprehensible to me that this can happen again and again!

[@AndyWearsPants]

Notice how this happened right after MS fired its entire DEI staff. Funny how it's just the latest of several companies having strangely similar problems.

[@CRK1918]

This is why you still need to self-host and on-site services. Cannot just rely everything on Microsoft.

[@samadhistate9637]

How is it that this software update wasnt thoroughly tested beforehand? Seems like incompetence in overdrive.

[@TranCeFORM3R]

It was bound to happen eventually, Windows OS running on so many different devices/computers and systems, compatibility is wide and a range of issues can occur. Cash isn’t king when the cash register or ATM isn’t working, the reliance on systems like these shows how easy it is for society to crash if we aren’t prepared.

[@eamonnsiocain6454]

How is it possible that we all rely on one system? Monopoly.

[@AlexandrosFotiadis]

Monopoly? you mean capitalism, the alternative is 1000% better and for free... still they are indoctrinated at the educational level to get used for windows systems. Yes the universities are here the problem, not being professional.

[@Ruhfikra]

My God, such a lovely bunch of reports.

[@africanstorm]

I literally feel like the guy in the yellow tshirt when I have to talk to non-technical people and explain pentest reports or security assesments...

[@claudiuspseudonymus1369]

Yeah... I can just hear the Aussies accusing CHINA or Nth Korea...or Russia of causing this outage...!!!

[@kishkavi8043]

What happens if internet is down worldwide

[@KonamiPalace]

We don’t wanna know

[@awaisbinsaeed]

​@@KonamiPalace thank you

[@vectorfox4782]

*Stop doing business with MSFT*

[@kingdomgirl4life]

So this doesn’t affect Apple users

[@antonio.x22]

for kids and little children playing with dolls this problem does not affect.

[@TestAcc-lu5cn]

Its for enterprises. I don't think Apple even does that.

[@tejabajaj127]

😂😂😂​@@antonio.x22

[@Messi7272u]

😂😂

[@BondJFK]

surprise surprise apple run their servers in windows

[@John.Pdcsta]

The more you depend on tech the more under control you are .

[@notcorrect]

You mean the more you rely on services, not tech.

[@John.Pdcsta]

@@notcorrect services are tech .

[@Upscore300]

I work at Tesla in Fremont in all Tesla factories are down 😢

[@dizzymindy6024]

So, do you get a paid day off?

[@BondJFK]

@@dizzymindy6024 Elon asked them to clean the floor and likes his tweets in freetime

[@Redcliff123]

Microsoft has gone for summer holidays.

[@REDACTED_MakesRandomVids]

Real lol

[@carolined5923]

Look how many organisations do not have disaster recovery all relying on one source..bring back manual processes as backup

[@celtisafricana4984]

Wow! Those airquotes were scary

[@donnathompson739]

it's not afternoon everywhere... here in the Eastern USA it's just now the start of the work day.

[@ryannelson2542]

Well, just goes show you what can happen, it does not take much to take down the internet, its good to have a break.

[@dizzymindy6024]

A break is one thing, but this could disrupt emergency services, medical services, banking, and more. I know certain airlines are grounded. Thus is a mess.

[@tejabajaj127]

All the Bitcoins are lost now 😂😂😂

[@djbis]

The Y2K bug we didn't see coming 24 years in the future. 😂

[@zeeunveil1324]

I just went and learned there is to learn about crowdstrike. Its a AI generated threat security integrated with Microsoft. Their latest security updates called “falcon sensor” which monitors and prevents hacking from taking place is whats creating these shut downs and issues. It’s an automatic AI generated updates that went wrong. Currently they have switched it off to manually which really should’ve been in the first place. The idea of Crowdstrike is that the AI is live and can create live automatic updates to further enhance security, however, this one went south. A really bad one!

[@elinope4745]

Dependency on Microsoft caused this problem. Bloatware and bad Microsoft updates are the norm for Microsoft and should be expected.

[@albertoserrano67]

Monopolies and profit control over a market did this

[@bideni408]

And dhis is the problem of a MONOPOLY.

[@Messi7272u]

Exactly

[@josiahk.2048]

A monopoly has no competition. Crowdstrike it’s just one of many security groups out there, but it is the one that is most common very common as this shows. That is not the definition of a monopoly. Don’t use words you don’t understand.

[@jujufactory]

We're under Windows 7. Works like a charm. :)

[@Nel302-o4o]

Mac OS users are lucky

[@princerudriyal9514]

Is this really a news channel 🤯!

[@amulpandya]

Perfect example how misguided people are.

[@PK51X]

Hope Microsoft sues for defamation. Might just put an end to this crappy show.

[@insanittiez4860]

Windows: Barely works yet keeps giving making our lives a living hell

[@sipgm]

In UK the only way to pay is cash, big big mess

[@DRAFTWOMEN2025]

Dominion testing they're VOTING machines again b4 elections 😂😂😂

[@jsmorritt]

AI has become sentient

[@augustomartins9516]

Indian callcenters must be busy right now...

[@zeeshanzia6364]

They won’t stop scamming

[@jolindo6724]

Now they have to deal with what their clients have to deal with in our world with updates with no support

[@AlvaroGilFernandez]

In the present time, Microsoft does all of its maintenance and updates to their windows operating system via Internet. This is an automatic form of updating the system. The last updates just were sent worldwide and made all the computers crash. It’s Microsoft fault nobody else’s.

[@PoeticAmmunition.]

They r testing the waters...

[@rosecontrena2274]

Does this disturb military planes too???

[@gabin682000]

i love cash in my hand, the government want to stop us from having paper money, this is just another reason to keep cash

[@piotrbiaecki210]

exactly

[@anushkakumari1978]

Does this affect personal computers?

[@onexoxtoo]

CrowdStrike is the cause, not MS

[@DavidMartins1]

When you learn more from reading the comments than watching the video.

[@govindpolisetty7812]

You guys are amazing 😂

[@duran9664]

Who the F is Crowdstrike ? 🤷‍♀️ Why it has all this access power?! 🤷‍♀️ Blame Microsoft 🤏

[@mugshotmarley]

the fortune 500 retail company i work for, with stores across the nation, are all down as well. Closing up my store and heading home. no work today lol

[@jamest3552]

Bill needs to focus on his software rather than buying up millions of acres of farmland to control food production.

[@Question.Everything.Always]

Okay

[@nextprogram5945]

Maybe switch to linux now? 😁

[@Sleeperknot]

This is not a 'Microsoft Outage'. Of course Windows computers crashed, but it was caused by the over smart antivirus tool called Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor, installed in many computers around the world. There is a workaround provided by CrowdStrike, which can be done by any any IT admin guys quite easily. Get it done and move on!

[@ErunMadera]

Why so many smiles during a bad news? Ridiculous.

[@timmyaditya]

He handled it really well.

[@dineththaruka3893]

How on earth social media never effected 😅

[@axemanracing6222]

IT guys should take the call like "how much do you pay me to get back today? $5 million? See you on monday."

[@xZeroOffical]

That's why you should never choose Windows for critical services.

[@KeepItSimpleSailor]

Cash is king 👑

[@AngelaJohnson-vq1mh]

this is why none of our information should be online.. if banks had files for there clients then banks can still operate...

[@Kawasaki1-m4l]

So where did it come from?

[@wildyato37]

I believe those workstation can be culprit..which was directly connected to servers.. since auto updates are being pushed ..due to incomplete software patch or unchecked portion ..the crash happens😅

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

The day after Microsoft announced they removed the DEI department, they get a "botched software update"? Curious 🤔

[@MediaManagementAndPublishing]

This is why I use Android😂

[@My_guy_vr]

Wait so is xbox also down

[@candyannecharico9543]

Yep, sure was. All yesterday until last night. Gamers like myself were sooooo mad!! But we survived.....🤣😂🤣

[@My_guy_vr]

@@candyannecharico9543 true i was scared to update but its fine and is over on xbox

[@sampharma5506]

So thank God, I still have my windows 10 not connected to any update 😶

[@chrisrodriguez7351]

That does it I'm going back to typewriters and sending Ravens... Or Owls (don't know if you prefer game of bones or Harry twatter)

[@joelgaylor9696]

Skynet has become self aware lol

[@hlkn333]

I believe the IT engineers and/or scientists may test the CrowStrike/Falcon in the Lab and Test network where the AI is being trained with limited Data Collection, Machine Learning Models, Continuous Learning, Threat Intelligence, Behaviour Analysis and Automated Response. Unfortunately when CrowStrike/Falcon is deployed to the public network where all AI data sets are not the same like in the Lab and Test network. And the CrowStrike/Falcon is being trained to shutdown all computer systems.