World wide IT Outage
RockyRoger
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Can any IT-savvy explain what is going on and how this happened? Surely such an event could have been predicted and there was a plan in place ....
I have a friend flying over from Germany for a much looked-forward-to event, so I'm worried he ain't gonna make it and Mrs RR can't book a much-needed GP appointment. These are trivial concerns of course compared to what's happening world-wide, but still....
Any sensible info much appreciated.
I can't help thinking about the story of the Tower of Babel. It beggars belief we put all our ergs in one gasket
I have a friend flying over from Germany for a much looked-forward-to event, so I'm worried he ain't gonna make it and Mrs RR can't book a much-needed GP appointment. These are trivial concerns of course compared to what's happening world-wide, but still....
Any sensible info much appreciated.
I can't help thinking about the story of the Tower of Babel. It beggars belief we put all our ergs in one gasket
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death
It seems to have been caused by a software failure, and not (presumably) by Malefactors seeking to bring the world to a *grinding halt*...
Well, quite. The question perhaps arises as to how much of an accident this was...
IOW, could it have somehow been engineered by Malefactors? I'm old enough to remember as far back as circa 1990, when my employers first put files etc. on computers, on which occasion I was laughed out of court for suggesting that pencils and index cards might still be needed as backup...
(I checked my online bank a/c earlier today, and all seems well...).
They're saying at the moment that it wasn't a cyberattack, so just imagine the chaos if someone tried to do it deliberately...
I'd like to add, 'heads will roll', but according to the article, they probably won't.
But surely something needs to change? If it happened once it can happen again ...
One nice comment on the BBC website wondered if it just happened to be Liz Truss's first day at the IT company .....
Everyone has a test system, some people also have a separate production system.
And the chances of another equally powerful solar storm hitting the Earth? It's not 'if' ,but when. But the guys just don't want to know ....
As I said, The story of the Tower of Babel springs to mind.
We're doomed!
Meanwhile, prayers for all those poor folk stranded at airports and those whose operations have been postponed.
Given the short release cycle of security product updates, this is far from impossible.
This sounds all too plausable ....
So this is the way the world ends!
My sister is due to fly back to France over the w/e (not sure which day), so I hope she's not affected. They say, however, that it might be some time before the fault is fixed.
I was busy swearing at my needlework, so only found out what was happening when a friend texted me. My first thought was that it was some kind of cyber attack, the news that it was due to a glitch was both reassuring and worrying.
It did make me realise I should have more than $20 cash on hand though.
Not going to think about it too much.
Actual laugh our loud, thank you!
Everyone in IT knows, or should know, that you NEVER roll anything out without thoroughly testing it in a test environment, and then having a rollback plan in place just in case something does go wrong. I am very, very surprised at Crowdstrike.
As for me -- my weekend away was ruined. Got as far as the airport and that's about it. Pandemonium. And I made the mistake of booking my flight and hotel through Expedia, and not taking the cancellation insurance. And Expedia's customer support is a joke, if indeed it does exist (which I doubt).
If Expedia were run by gentlemen they would refund everyone's canceled flights and canceled hotel bookings regardless of whether or not insurance was in place.
But I've learned my lesson. Never again will I book through Expedia.
https://www.abta.com/
I will give Hertz credit, though. I reserved a car through Hertz and had to pay a deposit up front. Their policy was that the deposit was refundable only if the reservation was canceled a certain number of days in advance. If the reservation was canceled the day of pick-up, or if pick-up was a no-show, the deposit would not be refunded.
Well, Hertz did refund my deposit in full. Gentlemen all the way.
Meanwhile, I see that Delta Airlines is still struggling to recover, and is still canceling flights.
It used to be -- I don't know if it still is, as I'm probably the only person in the world who is still on Windows 7 -- that you could create "restore points" in Windows, so that Windows could be made to load to the "last known good restore point" if something went wrong. Best practice dictated that you **always** created a restore point before receiving a software upgrade of any kind. Clearly the folks at Delta did not.
I am waiting to check my account to see how much has been debited.
Ouch
Spend it wisely.
Restore points are no help if you can't actually boot the OS at all, which is the problem here.
In the case of Windows you can then recover using WinPE or via safe boot and safe mode.
Nope. My account was debited for the full amount.
That's what the official fix is. But it requires the local admin password, and depending on your config, the BitLocker key.
Yeah, and it underlines the usefulness of out of band access via the network to their console.
Quite. It's not like iLO and iDRAC are new technologies.