On 19 July 2024, American cybersecurity company CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon Sensor security software that caused widespread problems with Microsoft Windows computers running the software.

2024年7月24日 · There are key differences between today’s CrowdStrike outage and the scenario warned about in Y2K. But there are significant parallels too.

2024年7月19日 · In 1999, the specter of Y2K, or the millennium bug, caused mass, worldwide anxiety about the risks of power, air travel, and stock market outages. Y2K passed with barely a blip, but over two...

2024年10月29日 · Critical services and business operations were disrupted, revealing tech reliance risks. What might be considered the largest IT outage in history was triggered by a botched software update from security vendor CrowdStrike, affecting millions of Windows systems around the world.

The term year 2000 problem, also commonly known as the year 2000 bug, Y2K problem, Y2K scare, millennium bug, Y2K bug, Y2K glitch, or Y2K error or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of …

2024年7月24日 · These warnings applied not to last week’s CrowdStrike IT outages, but to the year 2000 computer problem (Y2K), when experts warned that a disaster would unfold when 1999 became 2000 unless precautions were taken.”

2024年7月19日 · Banks, calculating interest rates daily, faced significant problems due to the Y2K bug. The bug caused computers to miscalculate interest rates, charging customers for minus …

2024年7月19日 · A single company erred a single time, the web buckled, and the globe shuddered. It is as though the Y2K apocalypse has finally arrived, 24 and a half years later than expected.

2024年7月19日 · The outage, which apparently stemmed from a faulty software update from security provider CrowdStrike, set off a chain reaction that took down PCs and servers at airlines, TV stations, banks ...

2024年7月19日 · Not only is a Y2K-level event possible — it just happened. Just like that, the entire technical infrastructure of our world collapsed in a moment. Seemingly everything …