Yet another moment in history that you will eventually be able to say "I remember when..."
Updates are usually something that goes unnoticed by the common population, your computer even makes sure to schedule it during your usual downtime. Technology is constantly evolving and therefore there are commonly updates that need to roll out for just about everything. Your PC is constantly updating all your applications. Windows is constantly adding new features. Games are usually switching out their maps or their player skins. Now there may be some downtime depending on what and how much is being updated, this is the give and take of advancements. Updates are usually something that goes unnoticed by the common population, on most days anyway.
In the wee hours for those of us in the Americas, an update was rolled out by a cyber security company, one that up until my most recent job, I had never heard of before. The issue is, something in between all the lines of coding, got missed and is causing havoc on a lot of very important computer systems across the globe. Within the syntax of the most recent CrowdStrike software update, something is not sitting well with the users who have Microsoft applications on their systems. Because of this, we are having issues at a lot of major banks, airports, hospitals, city departments like court systems or police and fire, grocery stores, retail stores, and even some personal computers. Those who are on systems such as Mac and iOS are still operational but could you imagine if those systems had been impacted as well?
Thankfully, this seems to sincerely be an issue of just somebody missing a line in coding and not a ransomware that somebody put out into the world. Regardless, it is going to take a little while to push out the new update and manually go through all the computers that are stuck on the blue screen of death.
Therefore this is going to end up being our second moment in time this month that people will never live down.
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