Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 month agoBanks use VMs and banks were down without access to their systems to login into the VM, so they could work. They were bricked by extension.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No, the clients were bricked. The VMs themselves were probably fine - and in fact, probably auto-rollbacked the update to a working savepoint after the update failed (assuming the VM infrastructure was properly set up).
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He couldn’t login to the VM to access his work portals or emails, call it what you will, but one bricked computer affected thousands.