The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, ***says the company at the centre of the world’s largest ever IT outage has told the federal government it is close to an automatic fix which would allow systems to return online.***
Microsoft, in a blog post update from its vice-president of operating systems security, David Weston, said it estimated ***8.5m Windows devices*** had been affected around the world.
However, it will take time until all affected sectors are completely back online. ***In some cases we may see teething issues for one or two weeks.”***
***Australia’s largest business organisation said it could be days before some businesses returned to trading.***
***The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO, Andrew McKellar, said smaller businesses may have to wait until Monday to get IT support.***
“That’s meant for many businesses, they’re going to have to wait until early next week to put in place the fixes that they need to do.”
McKellar said it was difficult to say how much the IT outage has cost businesses.
“Across the board there’s been a wide impact, that’s cost a lot of businesses time, money, lost sales … it’s very hard to put a dollar figure on that,” he said.
***“[The losses] are material, they are significant, we have to hope most businesses can weather that sort of impact.”***
nhl1011 on
They better announce after the fix is deployed and confirmed.
_metamythical on
You can bet against it. It’s not happening. The fix is already out, but it will never be automatic.
Freed4ever on
Maybe they will provide a bootable USB or something that makes it easier, but if one uses Bitlocker, they are still rekt.
Porkyrogue on
Microsoft has jack shit to do with this (i think). But I’m pretty sure I remember them saying they were stopping service on older windows and to be sure to upgrade? I assume that happened for everyone?
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The home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, ***says the company at the centre of the world’s largest ever IT outage has told the federal government it is close to an automatic fix which would allow systems to return online.***
Microsoft, in a blog post update from its vice-president of operating systems security, David Weston, said it estimated ***8.5m Windows devices*** had been affected around the world.
However, it will take time until all affected sectors are completely back online. ***In some cases we may see teething issues for one or two weeks.”***
***Australia’s largest business organisation said it could be days before some businesses returned to trading.***
***The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry CEO, Andrew McKellar, said smaller businesses may have to wait until Monday to get IT support.***
“That’s meant for many businesses, they’re going to have to wait until early next week to put in place the fixes that they need to do.”
McKellar said it was difficult to say how much the IT outage has cost businesses.
“Across the board there’s been a wide impact, that’s cost a lot of businesses time, money, lost sales … it’s very hard to put a dollar figure on that,” he said.
***“[The losses] are material, they are significant, we have to hope most businesses can weather that sort of impact.”***
They better announce after the fix is deployed and confirmed.
You can bet against it. It’s not happening. The fix is already out, but it will never be automatic.
Maybe they will provide a bootable USB or something that makes it easier, but if one uses Bitlocker, they are still rekt.
Microsoft has jack shit to do with this (i think). But I’m pretty sure I remember them saying they were stopping service on older windows and to be sure to upgrade? I assume that happened for everyone?