TECH - Government Agency Advises Public Against Testing 911 In Wake of CrowdStrike Outage | Benzinga
As much as someone may be tempted to dial 911 to make sure the emergency number works following the widespread CrowdStrike outage, authorities are coming across with this simple message: Don’t do it.
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CRWD), a Texas-based cybersecurity firm that is used worldwide by businesses and government agencies that run on Microsoft Corp (NYSE:MSFT) computers, experienced a colossal outage on Friday after performing an update to its antivirus software.
The global IT outage caused major disruptions to everything from airports to banks to law enforcement agencies — just about anything that relies on Microsoft computers.
Though it may take some time for CrowdStrike to fix the glitch, the BBC reported, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) strongly discourages the public from dialing 911 ...