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@Cernovich If there was a nationwide airplane ground stop, it stands to reason that people flooded Amtrak to book train tickets. It’s not that hard to figure out
@Country2018gal Very bad news, all around. Amtrak had just happened when I sent that to you. It was on Twitter/X.
13号星期五：
微软365全球宕机、
ChatGPT中断、
医院法院离线、
FAA全国停飞、
Amtrak订票挂掉、
NWS网站出问题。
官方说：都是例行软件更新。
呵呵。
#FridayThe13th #软件更新
Another one of those Cowinkydinks!
Amtrak website experiences technical issues amid nationwide airplane ground stop
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Did you take English classes?
You have to go back to October, when hackers broke into the refrigeration controls at hundreds of French supermarkets and cranked the freezers past 122 degrees overnight. This spoiled food and even started fires. Then, on November 2nd, it happened again at stores in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia, Luxembourg, and beyond. France has since formally pinned the attacks on Iran.
Yesterday, out of nowhere, Microsoft Outlook went dark. There were more than 130,000 outage reports, and Teams and Copilot were disrupted across 74 countries. It took the better part of a day to mostly fix. Microsoft says it was their own mistake from a network change during a capacity upgrade, not hackers.
Then, this afternoon, Workday—the HR software millions of workers use to check their pay—went down too. It reportedly hit employees at companies like Walmart and Target. Workday says it found an issue while testing its backup systems.
After that, the FAA grounded the entire country. Right afterward, Amtrak’s website and app started crashing as stranded travelers tried to book trains instead. Amtrak blamed the surge in demand. Just three days ago, the FAA expanded a new AI air traffic management system to every air traffic center in the country. The FAA insists that has nothing to do with this. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says there’s no sign of anything nefarious, calling it “just a telecommunication outage,” and says it isn’t connected to Microsoft either.
Maybe every one of these really is a coincidence. But it’s hard to blame Americans for being skeptical when the same officials who tell us our critical systems are secure still can’t say what broke or when it’ll be fixed. Basically, you have hacked freezers in Europe, a global email blackout, a payroll system in maintenance mode, a crashing train website, and a grounded nation… and no one seems to know what on earth is going on.
@SweetTaleBooks That is bad news. I didn't have a problem with Microsoft except for the update that came in & changed a few things. I hadn't heard about Amtrak as that didn't make the local news.
@Kazam_ii @Timothy07144309 @kristeenahh5SOS So you know what I did I logged in and started playing this season had fun played with my friends was very happy when I was able to get a Amtrak and just went on with my life not getting a token is not the end of the world
Input from someone in IT and cybersecurity:
The refrigerators were definitely a hack, and before those two, refrigerators on American military bases were targeted. It was just much fewer.
However, multiple failures caused by network or server issues is a reasonable explanation of the rest. Unless someone finds evidence of a hack (or more likely, a denial of service) it is entirely possible this is coincidental.
Part of the challenge of cybersecurity is patching vulnerable systems. Why is patching such a big issue? Because infrastructure HATES it - especially emergency patches. They hate it because it *always* breaks something. Every time. How big and which business unit starts yelling is the only question.
So upgrades and configuration changes tend to break things too. The general answer is to test them extensively first. (Which is why infrastructure balks at emergency security patches - no time to test).
This kind of thing happens all the time, it just usually doesn't make the news. Not too long ago, windows exchange servers were knocked out because a security application update was rolled out without being fully tested. Planes were delayed, the lot. That one made the news.
Now, consider the Microsoft cloud ecosystem and the network of air traffic control centers. How are you going to make a duplicate of those in a lab environment where you can test updates and configuration changes? You can't. The complexity of some systems has grown beyond that. You can test it on a smaller network of servers, but it is not possible to replicate the entire network it is going to be applied on. So if there is an error that didn't show up in the limited testing it can cascade. And once it does, the big challenge is getting it back up again with the entire world constantly trying to reconnect.
We have known for decades that the air traffic control system is held together with spit and bailing wire. Duffy has been desperately trying to modernize it, but is having to do it piecemeal because 1) it's a critical system and can't be taken offline and 2) despite the money from the BBB, that's just barely enough to start. It's not enough money to fix everything. And billions have been wasted during previous administrations on government contractors with connections and a 20th century mindset. Amtrak was also built by government contractors and crashing because people suddenly decided to use it is entirely plausible.
I am not saying that there is zero chance that one or more of these could have been caused by hacking or denial of service, I am just saying that normal network and server issues we see all the time could definitely have been the cause.
What we're probably seeing here is corporations expanding their networks into a size and complexity that no one team of people can manage or architect, while at the same time funding it by *laying off* hundreds of thousands of IT workers.
Tech companies, including Microsoft, laid off over 300k people just in 2023. They are laying off more now to fund capital investments in AI, because for every new technology the first wave dominates the next decade. So you have more and more complex systems and fewer and fewer people with experience trying to manage them.
Ask anybody in tech in the US what the hiring environment is like right now. Make sure you have plenty of time on your calendar first.
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@RCamposDuffy ask your husband why Amtrak was down and not running either? How come there were no bus drivers? All this seems a little strange, what did this have to do with the down airport system?
Amtrak's booking system is facing significant disruptions as a nationwide FAA ground stop takes effect. Travelers, stay informed and plan accordingly! Your journey may be affected. #TravelUpdate #Amtrak
#Amtrak officials said that the booking issues were related to a system-wide update.
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#VUCA #Transportation #IT #Cybersecurity
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AMTRAK in the US is down. Coincidence or connected to Mossad Chiefs’ visit?
https://t.co/8EpJpDRE0V
@BarstoolBigCat I’m coming to Chicago on Saturday for the Mizzou game Sunday. Can I have a tour of the Chicago office
Microsoft, FAA grounding, Amtrack disruptions, company "Workday" disruptions all at the same time? Is this AI asserting itself on the way to singularity? Is this AI pushback against people not wanting to build the Data Centers? Move over James Cameron.