By alonicus on Skatehive
If you've followed the news, or for that matter tried to interact with any large companies today, you'll probably be aware that there has been a fairly major outage of Microsoft systems. It has affected airlines, media companies, banks, the British NHS and Royal Mail, and a host of other organisations around the world. It also apparently hit AWS (Amazon Web Services) quite hard. Apparently the cause was a faulty update by CrowdStrike, a company providing IT security solutions to large corporations. Most anti-virus and security software needs admin-level access to IT systems, and it's reported in this case that some Windows 10 computers were "bricked" by the issue. Image by Boyan Chen from Pixabay I've got a number of thoughts about the outage. It could have been a lot worse Although a lot of big businesses were badly affected, mobile phone networks mostly seemed to stay up. Small websites were sometimes slowed down but not wiped. The cause was identified quite fast and solutions rolled