Australia and New Zealand cyber outage hits government, media and telcos

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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australian-cyber-outage-likely-related-issue-crowdstrike-govt-spokesperson-2024-07-19/

Purportedly, Crowd Strike and Microsoft at fault.

As an ex IT guy my opining was derived from my dislike of, off the shelf solutions and the use of the cloud. I wanted in-house databases and servers. I usually lost the argument.

Further, you don't have to hack systems, you just turn off the electricity, which can be done the old fashioned way.

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Reports here are it's Crowd Strike

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Seems to be more than just the either side of the ditch.

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says a global tech outage affecting various businesses was caused by a "defect" in a "single content update" for Windows hosts.

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Yes, bigger than a big thing.

>>Services from airlines to healthcare, shipping and finance were coming back online on Friday after a global digital outage disrupted computer systems for hours, another incident that shows the vulnerability of the world's interconnected technologies.<<

https://www.reuters.com/technology/global-cyber-outage-grounds-flights-hits-media-financial-telecoms-2024-07-19/

I reckon that this will be relatively easily fixed, but that won't stop the hordes, thinking about moving to the streets, behind some messianic politician.

Though Trump seems to have changed his tune to sparkly child's music, since his close encounter with an indifferent projectile.

Here in NZ the powers that be, are thinking about disestablishing cash in favour of a digital only currency.

Q: If there're no systems, or an electricity outage, will you give me a chicken for my iPad that won't connect to anything and half a charge left on it?  I'm hungry.

Exactly the same issue as "monoculture" in the food chain. We all use identical crops and food organisms, one bacteria/virus/genetic flaw, can wipe out the majority of our food supply. if we all grow our own versions of the crops etc, we only lose small portions in an adverse event. Guess which scenario big business favours?

I've been a Mac guy for years and ever. Not just because of style and simplicity, because in the early days, I hated having to deal with Windows and the blue screens, "because they're cheaper". Though today I do run Win10 inside BootCamp on my Mac as a way to fly DCS world - very immersive.

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The company said the update, designed to target malicious system communication tools in cyber attacks, triggered a "logic error" that resulted in an operating system crash on Windows systems (Mac and Linux users were not affected).

This is why I would never use anything but a Mac