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I think... crowdstrike made a global software release that is broken, causing machines to brick/bootloop - thats bad
But the cloud machines with crowdstrike are doing the same thing, thats worse
I wouldn't call this a supply chain attack, but more of supply chain incompetence. Like if a iphone update bricked iphones... slow rolling updates exist to avoid this very scenario, the ability to do a/b boots (if a doesn't boot, boot to b), etc.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Frontier Airlines briefly grounded all flights on Thursday amid a major outage in Microsoft networks, which also knocked out some computer systems at low-cost carriers Allegiant Air and Sun Country Airlines.
Microsoft said on the status page for Azure, its flagship cloud computing platform, that the problem began at 5:56 p.m. and affected multiple systems for customers in the central United States.
During this time booking, check-in, access to your boarding pass, and some flights may be impacted,” Frontier said in a post on X.
The airline issued a ground stop for all its flights, according to a notice posted on the Federal Aviation Administration’s website.
“One of our information vendors is experiencing a global outage affecting multiple airlines.
Allegiant said on X that customers may face problems with check-ins, bookings and issuing boarding passes.
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