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How a $36 barcode scanner sped up fixing the CrowdStrike chaos at Grant Thornton Australia
Like many other businesses around the world, CrowdStrike's faulty software caused hundreds of PCs and over 100 servers at Grant Thornton Australia to crash on that fateful...
However, a hero emerged at Grant Thornton Australia: senior systems engineer Rob Woltz, who quickly remedied the situation using a humble barcode scanner. Like many other businesses around the world, CrowdStrike's faulty software caused hundreds of PCs and over 100 servers at Grant Thornton Australia to crash on that fateful Friday, resulting in blue screen of death errors. Woltz told The Register that he is pleased he was able to engineer a swift recovery, but later realized he could have automated the entire remediation process if he had thought of using QR codes instead.
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