Global IT outage disrupts among others airlines, banks and health-care providers

Even though this isn’t a cyber-attack it shows how easy it is to cripple the world.

Microsoft was affected but is back up and running thanks to their resources. But in many cases the fix cannot be remotely deployed and technicians need to be physically present at each affected computer to input the fix. Imagine the headache for companies with tens of thousands of machines – you’re looking at days upon days of work.

Somebody’s head is gonna roll for this.

Good grief, these parasites are in everything. We should probably reclassify this incident as a dry run.

@DragonLady believe it or not my main PC is still running Windows 7 – because I’ve streamlined my workflow on it. Windows 11 is the worst as it takes a couple of extra clicks to do the same thing especially in Windows Explorer.

Having said that I do have a couple of machines running Windows 10 and 11 for work purposes – used mainly for sand-boxing and testing and they’re locked down as much as possible from those snoops at Microsoft.

This is why I recommend that people keep:

•  Their data stored locally and a copy of it stored offsite. Imagine all your stuff stored in the cloud and with the push of button…or the upload of a faulty update…you lose all your information.
• Another PC with an alternative operating system. Sorry, I don’t like MacOS but as an alternative to Windows I’d recommend people try Zorin OS. It’s a Linux distribution that’s very similar to Windows and comes with basic software for doing regular daily tasks like Web Browsing and Word Processing. It’s currently running on my backup machine.
• Keep a standalone machine, totally isolated from the internet and any networks.

Oh yeah, and make sure to keep some cash on hand. Strange days are these…