{"id":33351,"date":"2024-07-25T15:16:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=33351"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:03:03","slug":"local-news-turns-to-danny-tang-to-explain-microsoft-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-news-turns-to-danny-tang-to-explain-microsoft-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Local news turns to Danny Tang to explain global IT outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A global IT outage due to an errant CrowdStrike update for Microsoft Windows caused critical systems and servers to grind to a halt July 19. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2024\/07\/19\/upstate-it-expert-answers-questions-global-microsoft-outage\/\">FOX Carolina&#8217;s<\/a> Grace Runkel spoke with Furman University&#8217;s Danny Tang, associate vice president for technology and chief information officer, who explained what happened and added some historical context to the ordeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s associate vice president for technology and CIO unpacks the CrowdStrike update that led to a massive shutdown of critical systems running the Microsoft Windows OS. Danny Tang sits down with FOX Carolina&#8217;s Grace Runkel to explain the global incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":33355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6],"tags":[2901,2902,2906],"class_list":["post-33351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","tag-crowdstrike","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-os"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33392,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33351\/revisions\/33392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}