Computers, whiteboards and information systems were down, with blue error screens and sad face, upsetting almost everyone. Devices and equipment using Microsoft Windows were down, leaving businesses, homes, airports, hospitals, police stations “in the dark”. Flights and hospital appointments were cancelled, payroll systems crashed and TV channels went black after a botched software upgrade hit Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Services may have gradually returned to service after the digital blackout that caused global chaos, but a full recovery could take weeks, experts say, following the “longest outage in history”. CrowdStrike released information on how to fix the affected systems, but experts stressed that fixing the problems would take time as it required deleting the faulty code. What led to the black out A “bug” in the software update of the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike led to chain reactions […]
Source: News Beast
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