The Consequences Of The CrowdStrike Update

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🗓️ 31 July 2024

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Summary

It's been called the largest IT outage in history. A simple security update took down over 8 million machines, affecting industries from airlines to broadcast news to hospitals.

The buggy update came from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and affected systems using Microsoft.

Since that outage a couple of weeks ago, CrowdStrike and Microsoft have run their own investigations into what happened. But the federal government is also looking for answers. A House committee is calling on CrowdStrike's CEO to testify about what happened.

And the Department of Transportation is launching an investigation into Delta, which experienced ongoing delays for days after the outage.

We discuss how security update caused a global IT meltdown and how to prevent it from happening again.

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0:19.8	from Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network. It's been called the largest IT outage in history by cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt.
0:38.0	A simple security update took down over 8 million machines affecting industries from airlines?
0:44.0	Delta has cancelled more than 4,500 flights since Friday because of this cloud strike IT issue.
0:50.0	This is a live look at LaGuardia Airport where 104 flights have been canceled today.
0:55.6	165 have been delayed.
0:57.8	They've already canceled three flights.
1:00.2	I've gone into the gate and wait three times and come back out here.
1:04.0	A nightmare.
1:06.0	To broadcast news...
1:07.0	This is something that you've been affecting our newsroom at K K KKA as well.
1:10.0	As we try and bring in the news, there's so many things we use one drive
1:13.9	SharePoint word our computers are Microsoft computers as well we've got
1:17.3	security trying to protect those computers and secure our network a major global
1:21.8	IT outage is impacting many of the world's largest
1:26.0	companies including us here at Sky News. And hospitals. I can't even quantify it
1:31.9	into words. We do everything on our computers now, right? We have our electronic health systems which has people's, you know, medical history, their allergies.
1:42.0	The buggy update came from
1:44.2	cyber security company Crowd Strike and affected systems using the
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