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Hi, Tom Connell here. We've got a huge
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unfolding story in Australia and right
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around the world, but we can't bring it
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to you in the normal way. Why? It's
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affecting us at Sky News at Foxtail.
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Many customers, many users, many
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businesses. What's happened is we
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believe a malware company called Crowd
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Strike has essentially gone down. If we
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have a look at our studio here, this is
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what it looks like on many computers
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right around the world. Now, um
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technical operators call this the BSOD,
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the BSO, the blue screen of death.
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People are loading, systems are
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crashing, they're loading again and
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again and again. It's on a loop. So many
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companies are unable to work right now,
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including Sky News. Now, it's affecting
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users in Australia. We're talking major
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banks, Telos, media companies, uh Sky
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News, obviously ABC radio was completely
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down last time we saw it as well, but
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it's right around the world. This is an
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international company. We can see here
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what it's doing as well to our screens.
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Uh we're talking we've seen users in the
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US, in Europe, in Asia, New Zealand,
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right around the world. this is
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happening. So, this will be a massive
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story. There are offices everywhere that
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have just gone completely down, people
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unable to work. There'll be payment
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systems not working uh and all sorts of
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issues including for Telos. Remember
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that last outage for Optus and all the
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the issues caused there. So, this is
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massive. As I said, we believe the
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company is Crowd Strike. That's the
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belief at the moment. The last contact
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we had had by the way with the
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minister's office was that uh the belief
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was it was going to be Crowd Strike
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involved and they were working to fix
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their systems but it's up to them to do
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it. So the stress on that is it's not a
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a hack if you like where the government
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has to try to ward it off. It's a
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systems issue within Crowd Strike when
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an update happens. So once that update
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is being pushed through across the world
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as soon as that update happened
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companies are just going down including
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here at Sky News. So you can see this is
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the situation right now in the studio.
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We're hoping this issue why we believe
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Crowd Strike will get fixed so that we
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can get back on air and tell you what's
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going on and obviously we're hoping it's
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not disrupting your lives too much as
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well. So that's the update right now.
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Keep uh keep tuned in and we'll give you
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more updates as they come to
