More likely to be a team of people that were trying to rush an update before they went on holiday, ironically enough. As you say, its likely, but maybe not 100 to be crowdstrike, they had an issue, as you say, with the azure thing behind the scenes, which of course is microsofts cloud platform. And because microsoft is such a huge company with such a global monopoly, it means it touches pretty much everything. I think thats the most probably one of the bigger things is weve got to start looking at, is that idea of a centralised. I mean, dont get me wrong, this is not microsoft bashing. Its just the idea alone that you can have one company and one point of failure that can affect so much. Luckily for us all, of course its not completely microsoft and therefore there is competition in the market and therefore there are other providers so the whole place, the whole World Isnt crippled. But you know, if youre working from home and a lot more of us do in the future of work, and were working
Supermarket chains and Mobile Phone Operations have also been hit. Microsoft says it is investigating Theissue Microsoft says it is investigating the issue which appears to be linked to the global Cybersecurity Firm Crowdstrike. Microsoft says it is taking what it is calling mitigating actions. The full scale of this problem still isnt clear, but we have had a statement from Crowd Strike and we can cross over to my colleague who joins us from the newsroom with that statement from crowdstrike. Just bring us Up To Date with exactly what they just said within the past few moments. Good morning. Yes, this is a truly global cyber breakdown. The effects are being felt across the world. In the last few moments, we have heard from the company crowdstrike. It seems that cyber Security Update is behind this problem. They said that they are actively working with customers who have been impacted by this. This is not a Security Incident or a Cyber Attack. The issue has been identified, isolated and
Directory with Contact Information for members of congress and the biden administration. Notice cspanshop. Org. Attorney general Merrick Garland talked about domestic terrorism earlier today. Here are his remarks. This is the whole place is filled, this is good. Great hall is beginning to look at a great hall again, this is really good. Good morning. Im very happy to be in the great Hall Today with representatives at the fbi, the atf, u. S. Marshals service, executive office for u. S. Attorneys and with representatives of the national security division, civil rights division, criminal division at the office of justice programs. I am pleased to announce that the administration is today releasing the first national strategy for countering domestic terrorism. Each of your components will play an important role in ensuring its success. The national strategy is designed to coordinate and provide a Principle Path for the federal governments efforts to counter the heightened domestic Terroris
The president just arrived in geneva, switzerland, ahead of his big facetoface with russian president Vladimir Putin. This hour hes set to meet with the swiss president. His focus will quickly shift to tomorrows highstakes summit. And this morning were learning key new details about just how he is preparing. Plus, some surprising names helping get him ready. Were going to dive into all of that ahead. We do want to start this hour with Breaking News in Americas Response to domestic terror. Any moment, as you see right there, Attorney General Merrick Garland, is set to lay out the biden administrations new strategy against what he refers to as, quote, an emerging and accelerating threat. Were going to bring that you speech from the Attorney General as soon as it gets started. We are already getting a preview of the administrations new posture from Homeland Security secretary. He says the number one focus of the plan to fight domestic terror, to deter, detect, and prosecute Groups Intent