Many banks, transportation services, government offices, offline due to Crowd Strike Outage.
Thus far no KDX Radio business has been touched by the outage, but we haven't checked everything. What do you know?
From what I can gather, the fix is simple. You manually boot into safe mode, go to the Windows drivers directory & delete the bad driver. But many companies have thousands if not more affected computers, so it will take some time to eliminate the problem.
In the meantime, huge business losses, inconvenience for customers (particularly airline travelers) and even medical risk, as hospitals are affected.
Too much reliance on technology, with no backup plan in the event of failure.
Of course, it's understandable, since we all know that with technology, nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong...
Further to my previous post, the update was to Cloudstrike's Falcon software, which provides enterprise anti-virus solutions. If you haven't purchased Falcon, you won't have the problem on your computers.
The update wasn't from Microsoft, but was from Cloudstrike itself, pushing a bad driver update through.
Apparently, Cloudstrike has already deployed another update, supposedly to fix the bad one. If businesses can get their systems going to apply that update, the problem will be fixed automatically. But many are experiencing the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) before getting that far, so will have to go through the process I described in the last post.
I have to laugh. Some are using this entirely-the-fault-of-Cloudstrike incident to badmouth Microsoft and Windows. It wasn't Microsoft's fault. Virtually every piece of software that is out there will check for updates. The better behaved ones actually ask if you want to update before going through with it. Microsoft gives you notice that a Windows update is needed and pending, and you can do various things to delay/schedule it. Sometimes even cancel it.
Still others are noting that the Mac wasn't affected. Well, duh. This was obviously a problem with the Windows driver, no reason for the Mac driver to be affected. They're two different pieces of software.
And as an inside joke, people should learn how to spell cracked (hint, it isn't craked).
One of these times there will be a computer glitch that will compromise the USA/ Russia's defense warning systems and one or the other will launch the nukes thinking an attack is happening and the end of us.
@mark That almost happened once. Luckily, the false positive was questioned before anything bad happened.