IT support staff need to implement the fix in person, one computer at a time, experts have saidWhat is CrowdStrike and how did it cause a global Windows outage?Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSupermarkets, banks, airlines and industries across Australia are slowly recovering on Saturday morning from the massive global Windows outage caused by a CrowdStrike software update gone wrong, with experts warning it could take weeks to resolve.On Friday morning, the CEO of the Texas-based cybersecurity company, George Kurtz, apologised for the outage, and said it was not a cyber-attack, but a software update issue on its cloud-based cybersecurity platform Falcon for Microsoft Windows. It had since been fixed.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading…
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Author : Josh Taylor
Publish date : 2024-07-20 01:45:42
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