Should have bought a Mac

[zappaDPJ]

Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs​

Widespread outage linked to Windows workstations has affected major companies, including Sky News UK, Melbourne Airport and Thameslink

Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to Windows PCs

Widespread outage linked to Windows workstations has affected major companies, including Sky News UK, Melbourne Airport and Thameslink

www.theguardian.com

Pure conjecture on my part but going by what I've read so far it appears this started in Australia and spread from there which suggests to me there's a time/date trigger involved aka the Y2K millennium bug. Malicious code buried in the operating system perhaps, set to go off at a particular time and date?

 

[zappaDPJ]

The blame now seems to be pointing towards Crowdstrike's Falcon Platform which provides endpoint security monitoring software but it's not known if it's a technical fault or cyberattack.

 

[Deleted member 31696]

A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines can’t start properly. CrowdStrike is widely used by many businesses worldwide for managing the security of Windows PCs and servers. A manual fix is required which is going to take people hours if not days for smaller IT teams.

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[Ravenfreak]

Should have gone with Linux. 😛 Thankfully this wasn't a cyberattack, kind of crazy that the Y2K bug became a reality 24 years later. It affected Xbox as well of course since Microsoft owns the gaming console. I didn't have internet Thursday night for about 45 minutes then while I was playing my Xbox offline and my internet came back on I couldn't log into my account because of this issue.

 

[Cam]

This certainly caused a stink. Lots of things were down at my work. It's crazy that such a thing could happen globally.

 

[TechWiz18]

Unsurprisingly this has happened before...as I have seen discussed in various tech circles, some of this is on Microsoft for allow such Kernel changes to be allowed. From what I understand macOS has disallowed this for quite some time and perhaps it is time for Microsoft to do the same.