United Airlines grounded its flights…. Bets on them being ransomwared vs crowdstriked?
@jerry i need a quick break but ill sweep their wan to see if there are any brand new security appliances up
@jerry Why not both? Been that kind of day 😅
@jerry Interestingly, Citizen is reporting that the FAA called for the ground stop.

@Sempf @jerry

Reuters reports "United did not provide details of the technology issue that grounded flights, but a source familiar with the matter said the airline had suffered an outage of its weight calculation system."

@Sempf @jerry Cpuld it have something to do with Newark ATC woes ?
@Sobex @jerry It was UAs weight system. So probably DNS.
@jerry It’s United Airlines. Could just be incompetence.
@jerry
We need a better phrase word for "crowdstriked"... Something that makes them feel bad about it.

@rx13 @jerry

I just figured it was a complementary chaos engineering service to go with everything else you’re paying for, like having a randomware game day where the threat actor is just goofy.

The Hanlon’s Razor but reversed.

@jerry Most likely just something crashed and redundancy was insufficient.

@jerry

Something IT related due to the load-ballance calculations not completed according to ABC 🫤🤷‍♂️

@jerry

Also: What selection of recently bug filled border gateway hardware does their network contain? 😉

United Airlines Grounds U.S. Flights After Technical Glitch Disrupts Operations | Meyka

United Airlines operations across the United States came to an abrupt halt when a technical glitch in the carrier’s weight...!