Re: Global Compu-Trouble

In comp.misc Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

I thought this world-wide trouble might be due to some widely-used
cloud service, but it appears the common factor may be something else,
namely their dependence on a security service called ?CrowdStrike?.

Yes, though it has in turn taken many VMs in Microsoft's Azure
cloud service offline, and amusingly Microsoft's official advice to
affected users is to turn their VMs off and on again, repeatedly:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/azure_vms_ruined_by_crowdstrike/

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