BBC reports: “ The cause is not known - but Microsoft says it's taking mitigation action”.
Most of the media I found say it’s because “cloud infrastructure”. I am yet to see any major source actually factually report this is caused by a bad patch in Crowdstrike software installed on top of Windows.
Gets to show how little competency there is in journalism nowadays. And begs a question how often they misinterpret and misreport things in other fields?
The BBC are starting to say that 'tech people are saying this is Crowdstrike', so I guess it's just a question of being certain? Perhaps we'd have similar concerns about rigour in journalism if it were to turn out that it's actually not Crowdstrike specifically, it's caused by the interplay of Crowdstrike and some other currently unknown thing, and actually it's not Crowdstrike that's behaving improperly, but this other currently unknown thing.
It's looking more and more like Crowdstrike screwed up, but I appreciate rigour and accuracy more than FRISTTT!!! type announcements.
"Selon le quotidien The Australian, qui relaie les déclarations du ministère australien des Affaires intérieures, l'entreprise Crowdstrike pourrait être en cause, après avoir été victime d'une brèche au sein de sa plateforme."
Translated/summarized: "According to the publication The Australian, Crowdstrike may be the cause of the outage after having suffered a security breach"
I like how it redirects blame away from those responsible and perpetuates the idea that "hackers" are the real threat.
On BBC news a few minutes ago, an expert did describe the problem as affecting Microsoft Azure cloud systems as well as Windows systems running Crowdstrike due to an "update gone wrong".
Well, in BBC’s live coverage, just minutes ago, their technology editor said:
“ There have been reports suggesting that a cybersecurity company called Crowdstrike, which produces antivirus software, issued a software update that has gone horribly wrong and is bricking Windows devices - prompting the so-called "blue screen of death" on PCs.
Now, whether these two issues are the same thing, or whether it's a perfect storm of two big things happening simultaneously - I don't yet know. It certainly sounds like it's going to be causing a lot of havoc.”
What two issues? Two major independent outages? This is seriously bad and purely speculative.
There was a different Azure and other MS services (including Office 365) outage earlier which is separate from the crowdstrike thing that started a few hours later.
Most of the media I found say it’s because “cloud infrastructure”. I am yet to see any major source actually factually report this is caused by a bad patch in Crowdstrike software installed on top of Windows.
Gets to show how little competency there is in journalism nowadays. And begs a question how often they misinterpret and misreport things in other fields?