More from CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news on the global IT outage
That’s according to an update made last night to CrowdStrike’s statement on yesterday’s global outage,
Similar to the above-referenced query, a Dashboard is now available that displays Impacted channels and CIDs and Impacted Sensors. Depending on your subscriptions, it’s available in the Console menu at either:
• Next-GEN SIEM > Dashboard or;
• Investigate > Dashboards
• Named as: hosts_possibly_impacted_by_windows_crashes
As this incident is resolved, you have my commitment to provide full transparency on how this occurred and the steps we’re taking to prevent anything like this from happening again.
We are working on a technical update and root cause analysis that we will share with everyone as well.
Other updates from CrowdStrike about Friday’s global IT misadventure warn about threat actors impersonating it in phishing attempts and other attacks or advise automated methods (PDF) to track down systems that have been affected.
The State of Connecticut DMV reported a return to normal services this afternoon, while CyberScoop points out some of the other entities that have reported issues to varying degrees in NYC, Ohio, Pennsylvania — you name it.
It’s a “global outage,” according to an Nvidia status message. “We are working on a fix to bring back the service as soon as possible.”
Nvidia’s other GeForce Now services appear to be operational, so perhaps this issue is tied to everything else going on.
That should just about cover the various federal agencies looking into this global problem, right? Even if it took them...12 hours to mention it, although maybe their systems were down too?
According to 404 Media, the list of directly impacted agencies included the Treasury and the Department of Energy.
Photos of a world seeing blue due to the massive outage affecting Microsoft Windows systems on Friday.
Hospital systems from New York to Massachusetts to Pennsylvania impacted by the CrowdStrike outage say they’re canceling appointments and shifting to pen and paper. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC had said it would “pause the start of any procedure that requires anesthesia,” according to NBC News, though it’s site now says most of its systems are back online.
House music and technology are my two favorite things, and finally, I’ve found a way to write about them both.
Thanks to the CrowdStrike fail that caused chaos in systems across the globe, a DJ named Chris Lake is facing challenges with his concert in New York tonight. One of the DJs, Andruss, can’t make it, so they’ve had to adjust the lineup to fill his spot.
A bad time to get hit with the Blue Screen of Death is probably when you’re preparing for a practice session ahead of the Hungarian GP, especially when the problem has been caused by a team sponsor. But the Mercedes F1 team’s trackside engineering director, Andrew Shovlin, told reporters they were back up after updating affected PCs.
The impact in FP1 was minimal, if not nil. So, it created a bit of work, but we’re back where we need to be now.
The CrowdStrike outage is far from over, as IT admins scramble to fix systems that have been impacted worldwide. Microsoft says it’s “working closely with CrowdStrike” to help Windows customers get back online after CrowdStrike issued a faulty update that has impacted systems globally.
This timelapse of Delta, American Airlines, and United air traffic says it all.
The Verge senior editor Tom Warren can explain. Follow our story stream for all of the latest updates about this situation causing Blue Screen of Death errors on computers worldwide.
At least, according to the FCC.
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz apologized to customers on the Today show and said that the company “knows what the issue is” that caused the global IT outage early Friday morning.
Thousands of flights have been grounded so far in the massive outage. Some businesses are trying to reboot and bring their systems back themselves.
I love a scheduled social media post right in the middle of a major PC outage. IT admins certainly aren’t enjoying the CrowdStrike 2024 PC era.
