International Internet Outage, Feels Like Life Without Internet
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Panic occurred in July, precisely on Friday (07/19). The disruption came from Microsoft, where a problem with CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity software caused Microsoft’s network to go down. CrowdStrike as the party that received the noise admitted that there was a problem with the Windows host. This condition is coloured by the appearance of a blue layer (blue screen) as a sign of damage to the Operating System from Windows. Internet disruptions are widespread in Continental Europe such as the UK, United States, several countries in Asia such as Malaysia and Singapore and the continent of Australia.
The CrowdStrike software update was one of the causes of this incident. The incident was a disaster that affected 8.5 million Windows devices. The configuration file from CrowdStrike was at the heart of the problem that caught the eyes of the world. Microsoft responded that the impact of the problem on Friday (07/19) only had an impact of less than 1%, which can be concluded that Microsoft gave a statement that contradicted what happened in the field. Unexpectedly, several service places such as airports, banks and airlines were victims behind the CrowdStrike configuration. Microsoft gave a statement about this. They immediately moved quickly to fix the problem in various countries. However, Microsoft still made a statement that there will be some services that will be disrupted such as the Microsoft 365 service. Microsoft is currently looking for additional mitigation measures as well as improving contingencies to reduce the presence of ‘technological disasters’ present again.
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Reporting from several well-known media such as CNN said there was an uproar at service places such as Changi Airport in Singapore. They found problems during the check-in process which had to be done manually. Not only in Singapore, superpowers like the United States must get the sap of this problem. A number of well-known airlines such as American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and Allegiant Air had to suspend flights temporarily. The airline in Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific also revealed that at Hong Kong international airport it had to temporarily stop the self-check-in facility. Passengers must be asked to check-in online via wen to get a boarding pass. The same thing happened in Malaysia and Australia, precisely to Air Asia airlines at Kota Kinabalu International Airport in Sabah and Melbourne Airport in Australia. Indonesia also felt the impact of the disruption. But it should be underlined, Indonesia only faces problems with Microsoft’s built-in software such as Microsoft Store, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure.
The grand sporting event held every four years, the Olympics, will be held this month on Friday (07/26). This year it will be held in Paris, France which was previously held in Tokyo, Japan. Due to this incident, Olympic organizers ensured that operations returned to normal after a global IT disruption. As a result, the organizers extended operating hours until 11 p.m. France local time. The impact was carried out due to incidental to international airports that had to delay or stop flights temporarily. The Olympic security unit continues to carry out 24-hour surveillance to deal with cyber-cyber that will disrupt Olympic events for the next 2 weeks.
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Writer : Naufal Akiela Darmakusala (Accounting ’21)
Editor : Kenya Nurrin Khasanah (Civil Engineering ’21)
