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Mass worldwide IT outage affects airlines, media and banks
- gnabgib 2y agoThat's not the title? Likely related to Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (update: caused by a Crowdstrike update) (184 points, 1 hour ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
- larard 2y agoI think, as it is a live BBC page, the title is changing over time? It is now "Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage spreads, with airlines, media and banks hit"
- gnabgib 2y agoThere's no 74935 on the page? And other submissions match the title https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002710
- beardyw 2y agoWell it says "147,759 viewing" now. Not sure what you are expecting? Oops - now it's 152,915 viewing
- cqqxo4zV46cp 2y agoI’m really confused about the line of questioning here. Do you think it’s more likely that the submitter has purposely put a random number at the start, or that they’re telling the truth and there’s something that you’re not seeing?
- croes 2y agoIt's the view counter above the headline. C&P error
- ballooney 2y agoI think you’ve accidentally remapped ‘.’ to ‘?’ On your keyboard.
- BHSPitMonkey 2y agoAnother large parallel discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002677
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- system2 2y agoIt is scary if all the core infrastructure is based on windows.
- GardenLetter27 2y agoHopefully less will be after this!
- ibeff 2y agolol
- bawolff 2y agoIt not neccesarily is. If the gate agent uses a windows laptop, the core infrastructure (servers) might not be windows, but if the laptop doesnt work its still "down" even if the servers are fine.
- zhengiszen 2y agoThis lack of sovereignty is alarming in a lot of domains.
- brylie 2y agoPlease remove the “74935 viewing “ from the beginning of the submission, since that is apparently a viewer count at the time of the HN posting.
- mellosouls 2y agoThe "x viewing" has just mistakenly been copied in with the original title.
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- bawolff 2y agoI always thought crowdstrike type software was a scary piece of software. It would make the perfect target for an attack. High privleged and used everywhere.
- bostik 2y agoAll these endpoint protection solutions do complex things in the lowest levels of the OS and inside the kernel. Their MO is to inspect, intercept, block and/or modify calls made by other software on the system. We used to have a name for software like that in the 1990's. We called them rootkits.
- iforgotpassword 2y agoBut it checks a box somewhere so it has to be good. How can anyone run an IT infrastructure without buying a dozen "security" solutions in this day and age? Just designing your network with security in mind instead? Are you nuts?
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoThere’s a non-trivial element behind all of this class of software, which is that humans are gonna human. Whether that’s a constant cat and mouse game in which your X number of employees are fodder who will inevitably click the wrong thing at the wrong time, or a zero-day laden worm that might be stoppable with enough eyeballs and some manner of heuristics that can automatically roll out some countermeasure. Here on HN we generally understand technology well enough that most of us probably don’t need all these safeguards. James in accounting absolutely does, though. There are a lot of “James in accounting”s out there, and a lot of them run or manage the companies that make the line of business software that everyone else relies on. I’ve been studying the news coverage outside the tech sphere and the way people talk about this outage betrays exactly why software like this exists in the first place.
- andrewinardeer 2y agoA wonderful target for a supply chain attack.
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- imp0cat 2y agoHmm, let's deploy this on friday, what could possibly go wrong? I know it's a tired old meme, but it's still true. :)
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoOutage resulted from a "security update".