(An) update issue at CrowdStrike appears to have directly affected Windows systems around the world, with laptops showing an error screen known as the “blue screen of death.”
Airlines, banks, telecom firms and banks were among the many businesses that reported issues Friday, although it was not immediately clear what was causing each issue
American Airlines, which describes itself as the world’s largest, said a technology issue was affecting “multiple carriers,” while the Dutch arm of Air France-KLM said it had been “forced to suspend most” of its operations.
Spain’s airport authority AENA, meanwhile, warned travelers to expect delays due to an “incident in the computer system,” and U.K. airline Ryanair said it was experiencing disruption as a result of a third-party IT outage. It advised passengers to arrive at the airport at least three hours before their scheduled departure time.
Beyond the travel sector, banks and financial companies around the world have reported issues, with the London Stock Exchange reporting technical issues with its data and news platform.
German finance giant Allianz said it was “experiencing a major outage that is impacting employees ability to log into their computers. It impacts multiple companies besides Allianz, specifically affecting the Windows login and is caused by an incident at our provider CrowdStrike.”
A Visa spokesperson said that although its ability to process payments does not appear to be affected, “we are aware of reports of people being unable to make payments and are working with our financial institution clients to understand any impact on their services to cardholders and merchants.”
Computers make it possible for one moron's keystroke to create the chaos that would have taken ten-thousand morons a year to accomplish before computers.
This calls into question the control freaks’ desire for digital currency, I would say.
ReplyDeleteMy personal tragedy this morning was a wasted trip to the vehicle inspection station. The whole system nationwide (Spain) is down due to the crash.
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DeleteMy oldest daughter spent 9 months studying in Santander. Alas, it was when banks were being burned and other chaos was happening. She made one trip to Madrid but didn't get to see as much of the country as she wanted to.
I was blessed with being able to visit Spain once when I was in the High School Language club. What a fantastic country, and such beautiful people (the girls at the beaches were nice, too!) Everywhere I went in Spain was just incredible. The history and culture are fantastic! I fear at what will happen with the current situation there, but they ejected the moor's once before, I believe they will rise up and do it again.
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ReplyDeleteI bet there was some element of Agile involved with the planning and execution of this release and a manager somewhere insisting on the update being released on time despite warnings from engineering that it wasn't fully tested....
ReplyDeleteAgile delenda est.
And software capable of causing this much harm by defect should probably be developed to a level of rigor more appropriate to aerospace applications.
Perhaps no one.has died as a result of this (though if hospital systems are affected there may have been deaths due to it), however,
monetary cost alone would put it into the Catastrophic severity category by MIL-STD-882...
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