[tloriato]

GLOBAL OUTAGES

- Major banks, media and airlines affected by major IT outage

- Significant disruption to some Microsoft services

- 911 services disrupted in several US states

- Services at London Stock Exchange disrupted

- Sky News is off air

- Flights in Berlin grounded

- Reports the issue relates to problem at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike

[fredoralive]

Sky News (UK) is back on air, but they seem to have no astons / chyrons / on screen graphics at all, and I don't think they're able to show prerecorded material either (it's just people in the studio from what I've seen), so presumably they're still having fun issues with their general production systems.

[InsideOutSanta]

Oh, look at that, TV has suddenly become watchable without all of the scrolling garbage all over the screen.

[jeffhuys]

But my attention span! Nooo!

[urbandw311er]

Just got their ticker back at 09:42 !

[fredoralive]

Having another look in, it looks like they're overlaying a static banner along the bottom rather than having a fully working graphics system still (as off 11:30), as that's the only graphics I've seen.

[bux93]

Good news for crowdstrike! It shows how critical their services are. Stock to go up! (And down a bit when they get sued, and up a bit when they don't get sued too much, etc.)

[zhiQ]

CrowdStrike achieved PMF - Product-Market Fiasco!

[chucky_z]

Take a look at their stock right now.

[layoric]

Tried, "Real time quote data is not available". Big brain move, can't crash the stock price if the nasdaq is offline..

[jakub_g]

Google tells me "Pre-market 295.00 −48.05 (14.01%)"

[llm_trw]

That's 85.99% too high.

[trollstrike]

Yes, this has had no (statistically significant) effect.

[kavaari]

Pre-market is -12% down at the moment of writing this. I'd say this definitely has an effect.

[tamimio]

I have seen some pictures shared of vending machines with BSOD.. why would you have an EDR on a vending machine? To protect the valuable assets?!

[fredoralive]

If the vending machine handles credit cards, wouldn't Visa / Mastercard / etc. basically require it as part of their security requirements? Or it's just general CYA from someone that's backfired badly.

[butlike]

"It's a vending machine that sells back physical stolen credit cards." Input the dollars, receive stolen credit card. Put it next to an airport terminal for maximum impact.

[Lt_Riza_Hawkeye]

presumably they handle credit card transactions

[kmlx]

> - Services at London Stock Exchange disrupted

just their news service.

> The London Stock Exchange says it's working as normal - but says there are problems with its RNS (regulatory news service).

> "RNS news service is currently experiencing a third party global technical issue, preventing news from being published on www.londonstockexchange.com," the statement says.

> "Technical teams are working to restore the service. Other services across the group, including London Stock Exchange, continue to operate as normal."

[jen729w]

I was just at Coles, one of Australia's big 2 supermarkets.

50% of the self-serve terminals were down. Presumably the others aren't far behind.

Total chaos.

[telesilla]

Schipol (Amsterdam, europe's largest) and Melbourne Airport are down