The CrowdStrike global IT outage has wreaked havoc on critical infrastructure running on Windows - based computing platforms throughout Friday , but what about Mac users ?
The event , which has grounded trajectory , halted geartrain , paralysed banking organization , and humbled healthcare manifests as the legendary blue screen of death on Windows PCs . It ’ll has informed those user : “ It looks like Windows didnn’t payload properly ” . Various recovery attempts were not solving anything either .
The enormously turbulent issue , Crowdstrike says , is due to “ a blemish found in a single content update for Windows hosts ” that has now been identify . Oops .
However , all this might have been forfend if the same infrastructure was run on Mac and Linux machines rather than Windows . In a statement , Crowdstrike confirmed the matter , which now has a fix being deployed , wo n’t affect macOS users .
In a statement , the troupe write : “ Crowdstrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts . Mac and Linux hosts are not touch on . This is not a surety incident or cyberattack . The issue has been identified , isolated and a location has been deployed . We refer customers to the documentation portal site for the latest updates and will keep to provide complete and continuous update on our site .
“ We further advocate organisations ensure they ’re convey with Crowdstrike representatives through official channels . Our squad is fully mobilized to control the security system and stability of Crowdstrike customers . ”
Unfortunately for striken Windows substance abuser it ’s not just a grammatical case of restart the microcomputer and moving on . There ’s a mental process postulate to place the unsound file and delete it . regrettably for IT admins , the weekend is probably a minuscule farther away .
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