Explainer: why the global IT outage is happening and when it will be fixed
Briefly

The US firm has acknowledged the cause of the fault and says that it has begun 'rolling back' the update. However, the fix may not immediately help computers and systems already stuck in the fault.
As of this morning, the online services of major Irish banks appear not to have been affected. 'CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to the Falcon Sensor,' the company said in a note to users.
The company then offered a workaround to those affected by the outage. 'If hosts are still crashing and unable to stay online to receive the Channel File Changes, the following steps can be used to workaround this issue,' it said.
Read at Irish Independent
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