Worldwide IT crash impacts local gov’t systems
(CNS) UPDATED 1pm: A massive technology failure caused chaos around the world Friday as PCs at banks, businesses, flights and hospitals crashed when something went wrong with a security software update. Hundreds of thousands of computers were hit when the cyber-security firm CrowdStrike encountered problems with its software designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from malicious attacks. Officials from the Cayman Islands Government said many of its systems have been impacted.
“The Computer Services Department is working with CrowdStrike on a necessary fix and is urgently striving to resolve this issue as quickly as possible,” officials stated this morning in a short PSA. “During this time, many public-facing services will be impacted. We ask for your patience and understanding. We will provide further updates as soon as more information becomes available.”
At lunchtime the government issued an update stating that as of 12:30 pm computer services had made progress in resolving the impact to its systems.
“All production systems are operational and work has been completed in all Ministries, ten departments are currently in progress. To date, 60% of all PCs have been addressed, and 100% of servers have been completed,” officials stated. Regarding remote sites, work at 911, the Passport Office, the House of Parliament, Customs and Border Control (CBC) have been completed, while Workforce Opportunities & Residency Cayman (WORC) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) are all currently in progress. Other remote sites will be addressed after the current sites are completed.”
Category: Business, ICT, Local News
In Windows NT4 that I used to work with just prior to 2000, there was a boot menu option that said “last known good configuration”.
Saved us many times after duff software caused the blue screen.
It doesn’t exist in the current flavours of Windows.
I’m a Caymanian computer scientist and I code my own projects, no team behind me checking my work..
How in the hell did ONE single error in C-00000291*.sys make it past a multi-million dollar QA team tasked with testing updates prior to pushing to prod is beyond me.
EVERY sysadmin knows you never push to prod on a Friday too lmaooo! Just how?! Which intern clocked in drunk and thought they deployed to test server? There wasn’t enough coffee at the office yesterday.
Wait till it erases our little online presence and social media virtual reality what an absolute personality mess some of these fake persona’s and dubious influencers will be in when they get put in the dustbin or virtual garbage bag of oblivion.
Yes all these tech utopia dingbats who keep touting this faultless land of wonders system got their first wake up call and calling it a glitch when you can’t access your interspace virtual wallet of your existence and just how vulnerable this whole bunch of absolute nonsense is and just how close we teeter on the very edge of Chaos and Mayhem once it shuts down or is even interrupted and just how much control it has on our lives now!
Technology vs. entropy. I know which I’d place my bet upon.
Xi is now moving his chess pieces around the board. Couple of Rooks and a Bishop, a few pawns 200 nm outside of Alaska. Several pawns, Knights, Bishop and Rook surrounding Taiwan. Queen moving steadily from outside the Philippeans northward, presumably to take an oversight posture. Coincidence? I surely hope so.
Wtf ?
Not yet, friend. You need to give Donald Trump time to weave the MAGA spell and when hundreds of thousands of Americans would be prepared to enlist, then the Taiwan trigger will be pulled.
Trump is a trojan horse and a harbinger of chaos.
Globalist fool.
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