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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

DECODING THE CROWDSTRIKE OUTAGE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

In the aftermath of the largest global cyber incident in history, the corporate media is strangely silent on the details that matter. How could this impossible event happen? Was this a test run? Why is the public being aggressively prepped for a cyber attack? “The HighWire” investigates

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0:00.0

In the midst of an attempted assassination of a former president and obviously the leading Republican candidate for president

0:07.5

and then the current president dropping out, switching out people right before this election, we had the world's biggest cyber

0:14.4

outage and if anybody was in a cabin or something without internet service this is

0:18.6

what it looked like. A massive global tech outage impacting what's estimated to be millions of people.

0:25.6

A day of worldwide IT chaos thanks to an update meant to protect systems.

0:31.0

The widespread global impact of a single software glitch has given many a cause for concern.

0:36.0

It's an issue with a software update. It's impacting lots and lots of Microsoft computer systems worldwide.

0:43.6

This is impacting all different types of businesses.

0:46.4

Banks, hospitals, government offices, media outlets and other businesses

0:51.1

all around the world.

0:52.4

To emergency services

0:54.0

911 traffic lights transit systems and it's having a major impact on airlines

1:00.8

as well American Delta United.

1:02.9

They're all keeping their flights grounded.

1:04.8

This appears to be an issue between Crowd Strike and Microsoft.

1:08.3

You may not have heard of Crowd Strike before,

1:11.1

but it has nearly 24,000 business customers around the world, many of them

1:16.0

huge organizations.

1:17.0

They were pushing out a pretty simple Windows update, mostly aimed at trying to stop malicious actors from targeting certain

1:26.5

infrastructure that they found online and it just went wrong.

1:30.0

I called this dreaded blue screen of death.

1:32.6

It's weird because Crowdstruck is a very respectable company and when they do these

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