'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I was quite surprised when I heard the news. I had been working for hours on my PC without any issues. It pays off not to use Windows.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Honestly kind of excited for the company blogs to start spitting out their disaster recovery stories.

    I mean - this is just a giant test of disaster recovery plans. And while there are absolutely real-world consequences to this, the fix almost seems scriptable.

    If a company uses IPMI (Called AMT and sometimes vPro by Intel), and their network is intact/the devices are on their network, they ought to be able to remotely address this.
    But that’s obviously predicated on them having already deployed/configured the tools.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Bahaha 😂😂 continue using proprietary software, that’s all you are going to get in addition to privacy issues… Switch to Linux.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    best day ever. the digitards get a wakeup call. how often have been lectured by imbeciles how great whatever dumbo closed source is. “i need photoshop”, “windows powershell and i get work done”, “azure and onedrive and teams…best shit ever”, " go use NT, nobody will use a GNU".

    yeah well, i hope every windows user would be kept of the interwebs for a year and mac users just burn in hell right away. lazy scum that justifies shitting on society for their own comfort. while everyone needs a drivers license, dumb fucking parents give tiktok to their kids…idiocracy will have a great election this winter.

  • boaratio@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    CrowdStrike: It’s Friday, let’s throw it over the wall to production. See you all on Monday!

  • richtellyard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This is going to be a Big Deal for a whole lot of people. I don’t know all the companies and industries that use Crowdstrike but I might guess it will result in airline delays, banking outages, and hospital computer systems failing. Hopefully nobody gets hurt because of it.

  • veam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    oh joy. can’t wait to have to fix this for all of our clients today…

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Xfinity H&I network it down so I can’t watch Star Trek. I get an error msg connection failure. Other channels work though.

  • aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 months ago

    https://www.theregister.com/ has a series of articles on what’s going on technically.

    Latest advice…

    There is a faulty channel file, so not quite an update. There is a workaround…

    1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or WRE.

    2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike

    3. Locate and delete file matching “C-00000291*.sys”

    4. Boot normally.