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Microsoft IT outage latest: Airports, businesses and banks including Sky News experiencing issues worldwide (news.sky.com)
submitted 3 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/security@programming.dev
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Caused by security firm CrowdStrike that issued an update.

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

The outage is due to an update on anti-virus software from Crowdstrike. Yeah it's easy to pin it on Microsoft and they're not exempt from blame but av software runs with high privileges so it's gonna have serious consequences if it hits the fan. As it has.