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2024-07-21 Cyber

Microsoft says global outage on July 19 affected 8.5 million computers

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The global outage in Microsoft programs on July 19 affected less than 1% of computers running the Windows operating system, the company reported in a blog post.

It is noted that on July 18, independent cybersecurity company CrowdStrike released an update that began to affect IT systems around the world. The failure led to problems in many areas. Problems were encountered in airlines, banks, hospitals, and media in many countries around the world.

The failure did not affect the operation of computers in Russia.

"The CrowdStrike antivirus update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than 1 percent of all Windows PCs. While this percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impact reflects the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that support many mission-critical services," Microsoft explained.

As reported by IA Regnum, in many countries around the world on July 19, there were failures in the operation of devices with the Windows system. In the morning, users began to complain about the appearance of the "blue screen of death" on devices with Windows 10. The failure affected many companies and government agencies in Australia, the United States, Turkey, Ireland, India, Great Britain, Japan and other countries.

Restoring all systems to full functionality after a global outage in Windows-based technology could take weeks, the British newspaper Guardian suggested, citing the opinion of experts in the field of digital technology.

Experts believe that similar failures could happen again if various companies do not take care to create proper protection and backup copies of important information.

The massive failure of Windows has shown how important import substitution of foreign software is, the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development noted in its commentary.

Posted by badanov 2024-07-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11165 views ] Top

#1 Crowdstrike hits across the world: Queues build at US borders, Indian and Chinese airports battle back to normality and German hospitals cancel ops as world's biggest IT outage continues to wreak havoc

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-21 05:55|| 2024-07-21 05:55|| Front Page Top

#2 How China swerved worst of global tech meltdown

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-21 06:04|| 2024-07-21 06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 CrowdStrike’s Global Computer Outage Reignites Concerns over Cybersecurity Industry Concentration, 'RussiaGate' Ties

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-21 06:13|| 2024-07-21 06:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Microsoft has a real business opportunity here.

That is if they can demonstrate a better cybersecurity system that can seamlessly envelop the Crowdstrike work.

Not sure how the lawsuits will play out. Crowdstrike says the existing service agreements cover situations like the outage and the company would only be liable for some minor refunds. But that may not hold up.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-07-21 08:32|| 2024-07-21 08:32|| Front Page Top

#5
Deflecting our attention maybe?
Because it is interesting, how all this and more seems to suddenly happen, as they trying Kill Trump, push Biden out the door and find a replacement.

Posted by 2024-07-21 10:24|| 2024-07-21 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Microsoft lays off its DEI team as fired staff complain diversity ideals were 'no longer...

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-21 11:32|| 2024-07-21 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Only 8.5 million computers? Seems a bit low-balled. Linux, baby!

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-07-21 15:25|| 2024-07-21 15:25|| Front Page Top

#8 But important computers.

Posted by Cravirt Poodle4329 2024-07-21 16:54|| 2024-07-21 16:54|| Front Page Top

#9 So what was installed on those 8.5M machines when they rebooted?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-21 19:07|| 2024-07-21 19:07|| Front Page Top

#10 i have used c# for 20 years now and admire it but i dont like their policy of automatic updates. its
my machine and if i say its not broke then dont you fix it. I have migrated my programming to the web and use javascript and dont need c# for that.
so i am thinking of swapping microsoft for linux.
my endeavor is at www.weemfg.com. give it a poke and tell me what you dont like

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