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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Nino Bucci

Crowdstrike tells Australian government it is ‘close to rolling out automatic fix’ after global outage

Travellers at Melbourne airport are disrupted by a global IT outage caused by Crowdstrike’s cybersecurity software update on Friday.
Travellers at Melbourne airport were disrupted by a global IT outage caused by Crowdstrike’s cybersecurity software update on Friday. Photograph: James Ross/EPA

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.

The global outage on Friday afternoon occurred after the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike updated a widely used cloud-based software product called Falcon.

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