"Major worldwide IT Outage"

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sniffer66
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Just had pop up from BBC News and looks like major worldwide issues. Planes, trains, media and banking down. Sky News unable to broadcast.

Microsoft are taking "mitigating action" , so makes me think it's Cloud services that are affected, possibly Azure, but that's me speculating

Still, BF is up :)
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sionascaig
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Jeez, I have to buy Bob Dylan tickets in 1 min !
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Euler
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Betfair are behind Cloudflare, so that should be OK. BF Security very kindly helped us when we came under attack.
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firlandsfarm
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We are too reliant on IT with no back-up system. Delhi Airport are using a whiteboard to advise passengers of flight details! Other airports are asking passengers to fill out their own boarding cards. The writing was on the wall with Covid, not the pandemic itself but the inability of the system to cope with all the Zoom calls. And it's still ongoing there are bad calls every day on the news channels. The IT suppliers took a do as we say not as we do approach. They continually blame us when we don't make regular back-ups of your personal systems but they don't install a parallel back-up system themselves. This also shows the power held by Microsoft (and AWS) ... what if someone got in and held the world to ransom?
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Euler wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 19, 2024 9:58 am
 Betfair are behind Cloudflare, so that should be OK. BF Security very kindly helped us when we came under attack.
Not sure what you mean Peter, my news is saying the problem is Cloudflare.
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Archery1969
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The problem is with Cloud Strike
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weemac
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George Kurtz, the CEO of Crowdstrike:

"Crowdstrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts.

Surprise, surprise!
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Euler
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Personally I think that the latest wave of AI has become self aware and we are all doomed.
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sniffer66
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This is when I'm so glad to be retired. I used to do IT Security and Systems Management for BUPA, not sure if they are affected but it would be War Rooms and 18-20 hour days right now. I can sit back in the sunshine and relax :)
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sniffer66
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Euler wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:16 am
 Personally I think that the latest wave of AI has become self aware and we are all doomed.
"And on the 19th July 2024, Skynet became self aware......."
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Euler
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sniffer66 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:19 am
 This is when I'm so glad to be retired. I used to do IT Security and Systems Management for BUPA, not sure if they are affected but it would be War Rooms and 18-20 hour days right now. I can sit back in the sunshine and relax :)
IT support is one of those great underrated occupations.

You are given a problem you have never seen before and somehow you are expected to solve it. You really have to outthink lots of things to find a solution.

Complex systems often throw up really wild problems, that are so difficult to unpick.
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Archery1969 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 19, 2024 10:54 am
 The problem is with Cloud Strike
Ahh, sorry missed the subtle difference ... thanks for clarifying
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Euler wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:23 am
sniffer66 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:19 am
 This is when I'm so glad to be retired. I used to do IT Security and Systems Management for BUPA, not sure if they are affected but it would be War Rooms and 18-20 hour days right now. I can sit back in the sunshine and relax :)
IT support is one of those great underrated occupations.

You are given a problem you have never seen before and somehow you are expected to solve it. You really have to outthink lots of things to find a solution.

Complex systems often throw up really wild problems, that are so difficult to unpick.
A friend of mine was a 'faulty installation engineer' (no idea what his official title was) for one of the big mainframe manufacturers. He did his 9-5 days in the office when all was well but if an installation of a new computer 'did not work' he was called to board the first available flight to the location. On arrival he was whisked away directly to the installation, not the hotel. And there he basically stayed until the fault was dealt with or he dropped.
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jamesedwards
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Surprised that Archery hasn't been on here foretelling the end of the world. Perhaps his system is down ;)
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sniffer66
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Euler wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:23 am
sniffer66 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:19 am
 This is when I'm so glad to be retired. I used to do IT Security and Systems Management for BUPA, not sure if they are affected but it would be War Rooms and 18-20 hour days right now. I can sit back in the sunshine and relax :)
IT support is one of those great underrated occupations.

You are given a problem you have never seen before and somehow you are expected to solve it. You really have to outthink lots of things to find a solution.

Complex systems often throw up really wild problems, that are so difficult to unpick.

I agree. We got little thanks when we did things well (service cost, not a revenue stream), then when the shit hit the fan, you were called out , regardless of whether you were on the on-call rota or not, and couldn't leave until fixed. I think my record was 3 months without a day off - most of those 10 hour days

Saying that, I did enjoy it
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