Aw s**t!!!
One little security patch...
Took down half the world yesterday morning.
A major cyber outage has grounded flights and disrupted businesses and media organizations throughout the world.
The technology glitch caused chaos on Friday morning with Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines issuing statements saying that their flight operations had been impacted. Emergency response systems were down at police agencies and healthcare providers in Phoenix, Arizona, forcing some police and ambulance providers to dispatch cars manually, per The Arizona Republic.
Banks and financial services firms from Australia to India and Germany warned customers of disruptions.
Full article, HERE from Fox News. And HERE from the AP.
So, Windoze machines worldwide got the infamous blue screen of death this morning. Servers and who knows how many more machines???
And it's not an easy fix. MS has to be booted in safe mode, then 'cleaned', THEN the new patch reapplied. That is not a 30 second issue.
Meanwhile, folks were without credit cards, ATMs, bank operations, etc. Soooo, if they didn't have cash on them, they were...broke. Most folks 'I' know carry at least a $20 stuffed away somewhere in their wallet or purse as a 'just in case'. I know I've had to use that a couple of times when travelling and needed gas and the station's credit machines weren't working. I've also seen it happen at a major grocery store chain before too.
Much less the issues with airlines worldwide having to resort to...'paper' to do things, and lines hours long with little/no results (and no hotel vouchers, so they were stuck at whatever airport they were in), with little hope of getting a flight anytime soon.
Microsoft has always had 'issues' with the kernel, which is usually what causes the blue screen of death, but to have a security update do it is... sad, because MS has NEVER been a graceful failover system since the DOS days.
Thankfully, MAC and Linux machines didn't have the issue, otherwise, I believe we would have seen and entire world stoppage!
And I can't help but wonder what some folks would have done with that...
But by all means, let's go to digital currency cause there's no way THAT can go wrong.
I'm not surprised by anything coming out of Redmond. After recently learning that Gates messed over the actual inventor of the first operating system, along with historic reports about them buying up whatever software they needed, I don't expect they have anyone on campus able to build software from scratch but have to hire it out. 🤷♂️ Frankly, with the whole industry going to a subscription model, I hope this outage and the cost to the companies that trusted MS will kill that concept. And the company. There are enough variants of UNIX with their more stable kernels that critical infrastructure should be running that instead.
Sorry. I've had a dislike for MS since working IT in the 90s. I tend to go on a rant at the mention of them. 🤷♂️