WorthyNews: Largest IT Outage in History Affecting Banks, Airlines, and Businesses Worldwide

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by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) — A widespread global IT outage impacted cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike, affecting operations across banks, airlines, media companies, and emergency services worldwide. The incident shut down computer systems and highlighted the vulnerability and interdependence of global digital infrastructure.

The IT outage caused widespread global disruptions, affecting a variety of services including banks, 911 emergency call centers in the U.S., the London Stock Exchange’s news service, Britain’s National Health Service, and airlines around the world that had to cancel flights, leading to significant impacts on businesses globally.

Bloomberg reported that CrowdStrike alerted its customers that its Falcon Sensor threat-monitoring product was responsible for the disruptions, leading to crashes in Microsoft’s Windows operating system. The cause of the issue was not disclosed. Additionally, there were reports of disturbances in Microsoft’s Azure cloud services and Office 365 software.

Windows computers and tablets experienced crashes across various countries including the U.S., China, and Australia, with social media reports indicating forced device restarts. Many of the impacted machines failed to reboot, displaying what is commonly referred to as the “blue screen of death.”

Microsoft stated, “We’re aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform,” and added, “We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming.”

In a post on X, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz announced that the issue had been identified and a fix was implemented, emphasizing that “this is not a security incident or cyberattack.”

The incident highlighted concerns among IT experts that a single update from one company could disrupt numerous computer systems globally—from airline check-in desks to international financial systems—ushering them into a digital dark age. This serves as a stark reminder of the economy’s heavy reliance on technology and the risks associated with excessive consolidation around the same tools.

Alan Woodward, a cybersecurity professor at Surrey University, described the global outage as “unprecedented” to Bloomberg and cautioned that “the economic impact will be huge.”

Troy Hunt, an Australian web security consultant, commented on X, “I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history.”

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[other one]

A really good reason to worry about going to a cashless society.  Though we at our house are pretty much cashless, we should keep some cash for disasters.  Not enough to be a target, though.

[NConly]

Going to voip is the 2nd worst move the 1st is abandoning the million miles of solid copper buried underground.

[farouk]

2 hours ago, NConly said:

Going to voip is the 2nd worst move the 1st is abandoning the million miles of solid copper buried underground.

Hi @NConly Yes, I remember you saying on a tattoo thread a while ago that the voip system can have a lot of problems. Kind of, seems almost like an accident waiting to happen?

On 5/17/2023 at 2:38 PM, NConly said:

A lot of large companies like AT&T are trying to make Land lines obsolete. They are moving to Voice Over Internet Protocol  (VOIP) and are now calling voip Land Lines imo it is a bad move. voip is no where near as reliable as true land lines.

[NConly]

1 minute ago, farouk said:

Hi @NConly Yes, I remember you saying on a tattoo thread a while ago that the voip system can have a lot of problems. Kind of, seems almost like an accident waiting to happen?

Anyone that had a true land line can tell us that when the electric was off for several days the land lines still worked.  Now under voip if electric out everything does not work No communication at all.

[other one]

25 minutes ago, NConly said:

Anyone that had a true land line can tell us that when the electric was off for several days the land lines still worked.  Now under voip if electric out everything does not work No communication at all.

The business model for most people keeping landlines would make them too expensive to maintain.   During storms and especially Ice storms like we have here, the landlines went out along with the power for they use the same poles.

[NConly]

10 minutes ago, other one said:

The business model for most people keeping landlines would make them too expensive to maintain.   During storms and especially Ice storms like we have here, the landlines went out along with the power for they use the same poles.

When I lived Orlando area one city "Lake Mary" was able to get or pay not sure how all electric put under ground in the city limits. If this were done everywhere it would eliminate quite a bit of the outages and service/repair. Government contracts require contractors to bid on jobs with the aerial and under ground cost in their bid. If one can build a tunnel under New York City large enough for a train the electric for the whole city could also be underground. The poles a cheaper to install and make money the loose money on repair. If electric would put money up front to bury they would not loose money or power during storms or paying overtime for all crews to work.

[other one]

39 minutes ago, NConly said:

When I lived Orlando area one city "Lake Mary" was able to get or pay not sure how all electric put under ground in the city limits. If this were done everywhere it would eliminate quite a bit of the outages and service/repair. Government contracts require contractors to bid on jobs with the aerial and under ground cost in their bid. If one can build a tunnel under New York City large enough for a train the electric for the whole city could also be underground. The poles a cheaper to install and make money the loose money on repair. If electric would put money up front to bury they would not loose money or power during storms or paying overtime for all crews to work.

I just had a meeting with the CEO of one of our electric companies and she showed us the data that makes that not financially feasible in almost all places.

[NConly]

43 minutes ago, other one said:

I just had a meeting with the CEO of one of our electric companies and she showed us the data that makes that not financially feasible in almost all places.

There are no gas lines on poles. If Ma Bell and the gas company can put the money up front to bury  their lines so can the Electric companies. The way they have it set up is they invest little by using poles and make big money from repairs of storms. The electric also requires 4 inch pipe in a straight line (no 90's or 45's no sweeps no boxes) from road to house to install three wires that will fit inside a 2 inch pipe. But the Federal National Electric code allows 90's 45's sweeps and boxes. The only thing allowed in the pipe is electric and a person could not fill a four inch pipe in a 100 years no matter how much electric he needed on his land.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[farouk]

14 minutes ago, NConly said:

There are no gas lines on poles. If Ma Bell and the gas company can put the money up front to bury  their lines so can the Electric companies. The way they have it set up is they invest little by using poles and make big money from repairs of storms. The electric also requires 4 inch pipe in a straight line (no 90's or 45's no sweeps no boxes) from road to house to install three wires that will fit inside a 2 inch pipe. But the Federal National Electric code allows 90's 45's sweeps and boxes. The only thing allowed in the pipe is electric and a person could not fill a four inch pipe in a 100 years no matter how much electric he needed on his land.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@NConly Sounds like you've worked at it for very many years and have a keen idea of what is doable and what's not.