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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across 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…

uuhhhhmmmm ,

I think we’re getting a lot of pictures for !pbsod

Speculater ,
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And subscribed!

ramble81 ,

We had a bad CrowdStrike update years ago where their network scanning portion couldn’t handle a load of DNS queries on start up. When asked how we could switch to manual updates we were told that wasn’t possible. So we had to black hole the update endpoint via our firewall, which luckily was separate from their telemetry endpoint. When we were ready to update, we’d have FW rules allowing groups to update in batches. They since changed that but a lot of companies just hand control over to them. They have both a file system and network shim so it can basically intercept **everything **

index ,

play stupid games win stupid prizes

moe90 ,
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don’t rely on one desktop OS too much. diversity is the best.

aniki ,

Dont rely on corpo trash at al.

bdonvr ,

Huh, so that’s why the office couldn’t order pizza last night lmfao

NaibofTabr ,

Wow, I didn’t realize CrowdStrike was widespread enough to be a single point of failure for so much infrastructure. Lot of airports and hospitals offline.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) imposed the global ground stop for airlines including United, Delta, American, and Frontier.

Flights grounded in the US.

The System is Down

UncleArthur ,

Annoyingly, my laptop seems to be working perfectly.

Valmond ,

That’s the burden when you run Arch, right?

Damage ,

lol he said it’s working

r00ty Admin ,
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My favourite thing has been watching sky news (UK) operate without graphics, trailers, adverts or autocue. Back to basics.

misk ,
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My work PC is affected. Nice!

wreckedcarzz ,
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Plot twist: you’re head of IT

R00bot ,
@R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Same! Got to log off early 😎

Munkisquisher ,

Dammit, hit us at 5pm on Friday in NZ

BigRedUndead ,

4:00PM here in Aus. Absolutely perfect for an early Friday knockoff.

r00ty Admin ,
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Apparently at work "some servers are experiencing problems". Sadly, none of the ones I need to use :(

ililiililiililiilili ,

My dad needed a CT scan this evening and the local ER’s system for reading the images was down. So they sent him via ambulance to a different hospital 40 miles away. Now I’m reading tonight that CrowdStrike may be to blame.

Pudutr0n ,
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This is a better article. It’s a CrowdStrike issue with an update (security software)

solrize ,

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

jedibob5 ,

Huh. I guess this explains why the monitor outside of my flight gate tonight started BSoD looping. And may also explain why my flight was delayed by an additional hour and a half…

upside431 ,

Interesting day

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