Posted on 07/19/2024 3:58:56 AM PDT by CFW
July 19 (Reuters) - A global tech outage was disrupting operations across multiple industries on Friday, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off air and services from banking to healthcare hit by system problems. While major U.S. airlines - American Airlines (AAL.O), opens new tab, Delta Airlines (DAL.N), opens new tab and United Airlines (UAL.O), opens new tab - grounded flights, other carriers and airports around the world reported delays and disruptions early on Friday.
Banks and financial services firms from Australia to India and Germany warned customers of disruptions. In Britain, booking systems used by doctors were offline, multiple reports from medical officials on X said, while Sky News, one of the country's major news broadcasters was off air, apologising for being unable to transmit live, and soccer club Manchester United said on X that it had to postpone a scheduled release of tickets.
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Does this mean we have to cancel the election?
911 systems are down
• Many emergency services and even home alarm systems are down
• Some governments are holding meetings
• Some news channels cannot broadcast
• Flights are grounded
• Payment systems are not working
• ATM’s are down
• Train Stations are down
• Casinos and Hotels affected by this where many guests can’t leave/enter their rooms
So will all these companies sue Crowdstrike for the loss of service?
My local EMS service (CT) just announced their entire system is down: dispatch, computers, timeclocks ...
“Does this mean we have to cancel the election?”
Not if most voters get virus-checked and wear masks.
Interesting! Thanks for posting.
“United, Delta and American Airlines issue global ground stop on all flights”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4252530/posts
lol... No. Not if Crowdstrike software isn’t used.
But.... are the most important VOTING SYSTEMS down????
As someone who was in the IT Support business for 38 years, I’m always skeptical of the excuses that offered to the public when this type of thing happens.
Perhaps it is all very simple, Crowdstrike rolled out some bad software and the impact has been massive.
Perhaps, Crowdstike itself is compromised, maybe the software they rolled out was hacked.
Perhaps there is more to this story than just back Crowdstrike software.
Remember Crowdstrike was at the center of the entire Hillary Clinton DNC Email Server being hacked by the Russians in 2016.
I remember it clearly. Have a file on it - a hard file.
BTW who created the “bad” software...
Well that is a massive vulnerability, that needs patching.
Glad it happened now.
Sky UK (COMCAST) is lying, as I imagine other FakeNewsMSM is doing too.
LIARS. around 55secs in, lies about Crowdstrike - claims they identified Russian involvement in a DNC hack, interference in 2016 presidential election, etc:
19 July: Sky UK (Comcast) Global IT outage: ‘Biggest IT outage the world has ever seen’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDXmG_FCMk
read all, including Crowdstrike’s response and iTWires’ response to their response at bottom of article:
13 May 2020: iT WIRE: CrowdStrike chief admits no proof that Russia exfiltrated DNC emails
by Sam Varghese
The controversial American security firm CrowdStrike, which was called in to investigate the alleged Russian hack of DNC servers in 2016, had no proof that any emails from the system had been exfiltrated despite public assertions that this had occurred, according to the transcript of an interview released by the US Government a few days ago.
The transcript was from an interview conducted with CrowdStrike’s president of services and chief security officer Shawn Henry by the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in December 2017, but only released to the US Special Counsel Robert Mueller who conducted a two-year inquiry into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential poll.
While the exfiltration of emails from the DNC server has been accepted as a proven fact, Henry’s answers to queries from committee members make it clear that this was definitely not the case.
In one typical exchange, Henry was asked, “What about the emails that everyone is so, you know, knowledgeable of? Were there also indicators that they were prepared but not evidence that they actually were exfiltrated?”
To this Henry responded, “There’s not evidence that they were actually exfiltrated. There’s circumstantial evidence - but no evidence that they were actually exfiltrated.”
Asked why the FBI had not taken the lead in the investigation, Henry replied: “In these types of cases, my experience typically has been notification made to the victim about what has occurred in their environment, not that the FBI would typically come in. And they certainly wouldn’t conduct a remediation.”...
Numerous stories in media organs around the world have claimed that the DNC emails were handed to WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, but Henry’s statements cast serious doubts on that.
On his part, Assange has always said that while a foreign power may have been involved in the DNC breach, the emails which WikiLeaks released in the run-up to the election were not given to the organisation by Russia or any state-actors...
Comey has admitted in congressional testimony that he chose not to take control of the hacked servers, and did not send FBI tech experts to inspect them, but has not given any explanation so far as to why he acted in this way.
CrowdStrike’s involvement helped the company no end, increasing its public profile to the point where the company was able to go public last year. It is now valued at around US$16 billion, easily the highest valuation in the industry...
https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/crowdstrike-chief-admits-no-proof-that-russia-exfiltrated-dnc-emails.html
Interesting that BlackRock and Vanguard top off the list of institutional investors of Crowdstrike.
Q predicted this!!
It was an “error” caused by Criwdstrike:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/american-airlines-issues-global-ground-stop-flights/story?id=1120923
https://www.crowdstrike.com/careers/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/largest-it-outage-history-sparks-disruptions-worldwide
“Largest IT Outage In History” Sparks Disruptions Worldwide “
This outage will NOT affect paper ballots. :-)
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