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Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits banks, telecoms, media
Reuters ^ | 7/18/24 | staff

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
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To: AbolishCSEU

what you said! Testing for a crash/election day


81 posted on 07/19/2024 7:33:17 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: CFW
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

Sounds like a TEST of the SYSTEM for some reason or another!

82 posted on 07/19/2024 7:36:34 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: CFW

This is one of the reasons I always delay my Win 10 updates the maximum number of days possible. By the time my machine updates, the problems have been dealt with.


83 posted on 07/19/2024 7:37:13 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: telescope115

👍👍


84 posted on 07/19/2024 7:49:31 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: JSM_Liberty

“Because of the popularity of index funds, the companies that provide the most popular index funds, Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street are the largest institutional share holders in almost all publicly traded companies.”

Shhh. Don’t tell them. They are on a roll. :-)


85 posted on 07/19/2024 7:50:06 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Jeff Chandler

Maybe someone was testing the “fix” that was planned for late October but accidentally went “live”. If so, heads will certainly roll.

On a personal note, my niece has been on a mission trip in Peru for the past 10 days. Her fight home was supposed to be today, but now she is not sure when she will be on her way.

She has been going yearly with a group that builds churches and school rooms for small villages since she was a teen. She is a very conservative third grade teacher and enjoys the opportunities she gets to teach and read to the children.

So, if you are a praying person, please say a prayer for “LB” that she arrives home safely. She also has federal jury duty next week and the judge refused to excuse her until a later time.


86 posted on 07/19/2024 7:57:38 AM PDT by CFW
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To: pas

I’m sure lawyers are already digging into terms of services contracts and coming up with strategies...and they may be finding the risk of cloud software may outweigh local control after their losses have been realized. May even impact SaaS approaches depending how bad it ends up being.

I read one posting that indicated it may be weeks to fix everything, while other reporting is saying they can reverse it overnight.


87 posted on 07/19/2024 8:02:18 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: ClearCase_guy

They’ll add more DROP BOXES.


88 posted on 07/19/2024 8:09:04 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Bye done!)
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To: mad_as_he$$

I suspect the summer intern. “It’s only a few lines of code, let the intern do it.”


89 posted on 07/19/2024 8:31:45 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: CFW

Russian airports have completely avoided worldwide disruptions - they exclusively use domestic Linux systems and DBMS (database management system) in their work insulating them from Western “communication network failures.”

https://x.com/JamesPorrazzo/status/1814233369254777194


90 posted on 07/19/2024 8:49:39 AM PDT by McGruff (We're done talking about the debate. It's time to put Trump in the bullseye - Joe Biden)
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To: McGruff

Russian airports have completely avoided worldwide disruptions - they exclusively use domestic Linux systems and DBMS (database management system) in their work insulating them from Western “communication network failures.”


LOL! Our home’s main desktop system is Linux. There is something to be said for it during times like this.


91 posted on 07/19/2024 9:37:59 AM PDT by CFW
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To: pas

A screw up on this scale should put Crowdstrike out of business for good. It is hard to imagine that they would have the financial resources to compensate for the damages they did here.


92 posted on 07/19/2024 9:47:59 AM PDT by Revel
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To: reed13k

Wikipedia claims it must be fixed one computer at a time—obviously a disaster for large scale operations.

I do not have the technical expertise to know if that is true or not.


93 posted on 07/19/2024 9:49:48 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: CFW

Some Court systems are down too, including Los Angeles Superior.


94 posted on 07/19/2024 9:52:22 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: BillyBonebrake

The windows machines at my work were fine. No interruptions getting into email, network resources, etc. However, the time clocks were all in off-line mode for those that used them so they just had to accept punches, but weren’t able to verify someone was supposed to punch in at that time, etc. And can’t upload The daily punches into the timekeeping system. No workaround for that yet from the vendor


95 posted on 07/19/2024 10:04:07 AM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Moose4

From everything I’ve read, this cluster didn’t matter if you were a cloud customer or on premise. If you are unlucky enough to use the crowd strike software on your servers or local machines, and they were on overnight when this, virus definition update, got pushed out, you were screwed.


96 posted on 07/19/2024 10:06:55 AM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: CFW

Anybody in IT has seen this coming, making your websites, your mission critical software dependent on external platforms. Like today, there are two or three they could be taken down and it will shut down most Internet traffic around the world.


97 posted on 07/19/2024 10:14:43 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump / Vance 2024 - Make America Great Again)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Does this mean we have to cancel the election?

No, in anticipation of this eventuality we have stacks and stacks of pre-voted ballots ready to be counted.

98 posted on 07/19/2024 10:25:24 AM PDT by SFConservative
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To: dkGba

Liberal “friend” was so proud to tell me ALL her photos are on the “cloud”...when I commented about storing/sorting mine on jump drives, etc. (I snickered to myself wondering what she would do when her cloud went down. )


99 posted on 07/19/2024 10:28:01 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the goo"d times when people starved)
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To: CFW
Crowdstrike is the company who managed Hillary's secret server, right?

Did she place to call to Crowdstrike to WIPE THE RNC CONVENTION AND TRUMP'S GODLY COMEBACK DISCUSSION OUT OF THE NEWS CYCLE?

Blackrock and Crowdstrike are BUSY!!!!

100 posted on 07/19/2024 10:43:20 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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