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"Services began to come back online on Friday evening after an IT failure that
wreaked havoc worldwide. But full recovery could take weeks, experts have said,
after airports, healthcare services and businesses were hit by the “largest
outage in history”.
Flights and hospital appointments were cancelled, payroll systems seized up and
TV channels went off air after a botched software upgrade hit Microsoft’s
Windows operating system.
It came from the US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, and left workers facing
a “blue screen of death” as their computers failed to start. Experts said every
affected PC may have to be fixed manually, but as of Friday night some services
started to recover.
As recovery continues, experts say the outage underscored concerns that many
organizations are not well prepared to implement contingency plans when a
single point of failure such as an IT system, or a piece of software within it,
goes down. But these outages will happen again, experts say, until more
contingencies are built into networks and organizations introduce better
back-ups."
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
