Planes grounded as mass worldwide IT outage hits airlines, media and banks

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  • According to the BBC it's a cybersecurity company that's the origin of the issues. They've released an update to their software that seems to have gone wrong Flushed

  • Yes, its being reported in the IT technical websites. Unfortunately its a issue that results in the PC being stuck in a continual boot loop. It can be resolved, but it needs physical access to the device. Unfortunately where a device is in a remote location, it will take time to get a trained person to rectify the issue.

    This isn't the first time Microsoft or one of there suppliers has pushed an update that breaks things...

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  • Yes, its being reported in the IT technical websites. Unfortunately its a issue that results in the PC being stuck in a continual boot loop. It can be resolved, but it needs physical access to the device. Unfortunately where a device is in a remote location, it will take time to get a trained person to rectify the issue.

    This isn't the first time Microsoft or one of there suppliers has pushed an update that breaks things...

Children
  • Both of my brothers work in the IT industry. One for a London based insurance company and one is an IT Project Manager working for a well known restaurant chain.  I'm guessing they're both a little bit busy today... Wink