"The world is down": Update on catastrophic IT crisis • The Western Weekender

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"The world is down": Update on catastrophic IT crisis • The Western Weekender

A major IT glitch that has impacted businesses and services around the world could take days to fully fix, experts say. This outage was caused by a fault in the “Falcon sensor” used by American software company CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike’s software is used on Microsoft systems, hence the widespread impact of the problem.   The fault occurred at about 3pm Australian time, causing major disruptions to businesses far and wide including supermarkets,…