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"The Australian government has warned a global IT outage that threw major
businesses including airports, banks, supermarkets and media outlets into chaos
on Friday could still take “some time to resolve”.
The government activated a National Coordination Mechanism meeting of emergency
authorities as well as representatives from the major supermarkets, banks,
airlines and other key industries on Friday night to respond after Windows
workstations were hit by the “blue screen of death”.
The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, said on Friday night the problem,
which began about 3.30pm, was caused by a software update linked to the
cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike. She said the company had attended the
meeting and confirmed it had “issued a fix”, but it could still take “some time
to resolve”.
The incident was not security related or a cyberattack but a defect found in a
single content update for Windows hosts, the CrowdStrike chief executive,
George Kurtz, said a subsequent statement. .
The crowd-sourced website Downdetector has listed Telstra, Microsoft, Google,
Foxtel, National Australia Bank, ABC, Uber, ANZ, and Bendigo Bank as suffering
outages.
But Qantas, Virgin Australia, Jetstar, police across much of the country and
the federal and NSW governments were hit, as well as point-of-sale machines at
shops, including Coles and Woolworths."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
