crowdstrike
Crowdstrike promises RCA as C++ null pointer claim contested
"We are committed to identifying any foundational or workflow improvements" says EDR firm.
Outages
CrowdStrike’s unholy cluster is terrible news for CISOs
AWS EC2 Windows instances also borked with Crowdstrike's manual mitigation not working. Guidance available but...
crowdstrike
Crowdstrike CEO apologises after content update "defect" caused global blue screen of death outage
"I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history," celebrity cybersecurity specialist announces
Outages
Is the Wayback Machine down? Internet Archive suffers mysterious outages
Treasure trove of altered or deleted websites brought offline after power cut as it fights legal appeal against decision which forced the removal of 500,000 books
NYSE
Software update bug triggers brief NYSE chaos, market feed data centre failover
"CTA failed over to the secondary data center, which is operating on the previous version of the software."
google cloud
Google praises UniSuper’s CIO after GCP error deleted $124 billion firm’s entire private cloud
Post-mortem praises Aussie fund's good third-party backups, “speed and precision” from CIO’s team
Africa
“Multiple major fiber cables” reaching Africa are broken
Microsoft vows to "add additional fiber links within the region over the weekend, and then further capacity into next week"
AWS
Wyze blames AWS outage, Redis cache issues for video camera security howler
Never, NEVER mix up "device ID and user ID mappings" kids....
Epstein
US Courts files system crashes as new Jeffrey Epstein files drop
Proposal that Bill Clinton come to court "a transparent ploy by Plaintiff to increase media exposure for her sensational stories through deposition side-show"
News
'Tis the season: Box gifts customers an early weekend with Friday outage
File sharing and collaboration service Box fell victim to an extended outage that affected all of its services on Friday
telco
Nationwide Aussie telco outage cause "too technical" to explain: The answer may be in a (heavily redacted) Canadian report
How not to share a root cause analysis: Lessons from Australia's Optus and Canada's Rogers...
ChatGPT
ChatGPT suffers major (but swiftly fixed) outage
Two outages back-to-back came the day of OpenAI's new models and services launch and appear to have grown more severe today...