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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…

foremanguy92_ ,

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

art ,
@art@lemmy.world avatar

Not easy to switch a secured 4,000+ workstation business. Plus, a lot of companies get their support, license, and managed email from one vendor. It’s bundled in such a way that it would cost MORE to deploy Linux. (And that very much on purpose)

silkroadtraveler ,

It’s entertaining to me that our brand of monopolistic / oligarchic capitalism itself disincentivizes one-time costs that are greatly outweighed by the risk of future occurrences. Even when those one-time costs would result in greater stability and lower prices…and not even on that big of a time horizon. There is an army of developers that would be so motivated to work on a migration project like this. But then I guess execs couldn’t jet set around the world to hang out at the Crowdstrike F1 hospitality tent every weekend.

Quill7513 ,

(Crowd strike also runs on Linux. This could have happened to Linux too)

Raxiel ,

A lot of people I work with were affected, I wasn’t one of them. I had assumed it was because I put my machine to sleep yesterday (and every other day this week) and just woke it up after booting it. I assumed it was an on startup thing and that’s why I didn’t have it.

Our IT provider already broke EVERYTHING earlier this month when they remote installed" Nexthink Collector" which forced a 30+ minute CHKDSK on every boot for EVERYONE, until they rolled out a fix (which they were at least able to do remotely), and I didn’t want to have to deal with that the week before I go in leave.

But it sounds like it even happened to running systems so now I don’t know why I wasn’t affected, unless it’s a windows 10 only thing?

Our IT have had some grief lately, but at least they specified Intel 12th gen on our latest CAD machines, rather than 13th or 14th, so they’ve got at least one win.

wizardbeard ,

Your computer was likely not powered on during the time window between the fucked update pushing out and when they stopped pushing it out.

thearch ,

Irrelevant but I keep reading “crowd strike” as “counter strike” and it’s really messing with me

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    IndustryStandard ,

    The internet is just a way to communicate data. The only people affected by this bug are customers of a Windows based “cybersecurity” company.

    Quill7513 ,

    Just a little bit of a correction. Crowd strike publishes agents for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Its just the particular broken agent is for Windows. They had a 1/3 chance of taking down any one of their three client bases

    wizardbeard ,

    The company is not Windows based, they offer clients and agents for Linux and Mac as well (and there are some scattered reports they fucked up some of their Linux customers like this last month).

    The Windows version of their software is what is broken.

    PoolloverNathan ,

    Interesting how ARPA net (the internet) was build to with stand these issues, but companies like Microsoft and Amazon (and no regulation) have completely reversed it’s original intent.

    autotldr Bot ,

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

    The ABC is experiencing a major network outage, along with several other media outlets.

    Crowd-sourced website Downdetector is listing outages for Foxtel, National Australia Bank and Bendigo Bank.

    Follow our live blog as we bring you the latest updates.

    The original article contains 52 words, the summary contains 52 words. Saved 0%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    dorythefish ,

    The original article contains 52 words, the summary contains 52 words. Saved 0%. Good bot!

    scripthook ,
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    crowdstrike sent a corrupt file with a software update for windows servers. this caused a blue screen of death on all the windows servers globally for crowdstrike clients causing that blue screen of death. even people in my company. luckily i shut off my computer at the end of the day and missed the update. It’s not an OTA fix. they have to go into every data center and manually fix all the computer servers. some of these severs have encryption. I see a very big lawsuit coming…

    chris ,
    @chris@l.roofo.cc avatar

    I don’t see how they can recover from that. They will get lawsuits from all around the world.

    Baggie ,

    I legit have never been more happy to be unemployed.

    yournamehere ,

    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.

    ninekeysdown ,
    @ninekeysdown@lemmy.world avatar

    So when’s the last time you touched some grass? It’s a lovely day outside. Maybe go to a pet shelter and see some puppies? Are you getting enough fiber? Drinking enough water? Why not call a friend and hang out?

    CanadaPlus ,

    Yeah, I agree with the sentiment, but this is pretty intense.

    yournamehere ,

    oh so you have a macbook? pretentious wanker go die.

    CanadaPlus ,

    I have a MacBook that runs Linux. Where am I on the shitbird scale?

    AWistfulNihilist ,

    Bold of you to assume this person has friends!

    cyberfae ,
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    While I get your point on the over reliance on Microsoft, some of us are going to be stuck spending the whole day trying to fix this shit. You could show some compassion.

    yournamehere ,

    no. after decades…not anymore. again and again. there is no good excel, apple users are not “educated”. just assholes caring about themselves and avoiding the need to learn. i did not yet hear any valid argument.

    why not show compassion for driving bmw series 5 without a drivers license around kindergard?

    i’m seriously just done with every windows,android,osx user forever. digital trumps. thats all they are. me. me. me.

    cyberfae ,
    @cyberfae@lemmy.world avatar

    So what do I tell the doctors who can’t care for their patients when I start work today? That it’s their fault leadership chose the software they did? Or do I swallow my pride and put the patients before everything else? Personally, I’m going to choose the latter as the patients wellbeing comes before my opinions about my hospitals choice in software.

    Halosheep ,

    You guys remember that world of warcraft episode of south park?

    This is him.

    ari_verse ,

    It’s a fair point but I would rather diversify and also use something that is open / less opaque

    index ,

    play stupid games win stupid prizes

    retrospectology ,
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    This is why you create restore points if using windows.

    robocall ,
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    Buy the dip!

    jecht360 ,
    @jecht360@lemmy.world avatar

    More like short them. This is going to be devastating for their business. I could see them losing tons of customers.

    AlecSadler ,

    But probably not immediately, probably slowly over time as contracts come due.

    AuntieFreeze ,

    Webroot had something similar ish earlier this year. Such a pain.

    Happywop ,

    It’s Russia, or Iran or China or even our “ally” Saudi Arabia. So really, it’s time to reset the clock to pre 1989. Cut Russia and China off completely, no investment, no internet, no students no tourist nothing. These people mean and are continually doing us harm and we still plod along and some unscrupulous types become agents for personal profit. Enough.

    Eezyville ,
    @Eezyville@sh.itjust.works avatar

    It was a bad update…

    Quill7513 ,

    Let’s ignore that it was an American company taking down EVERYONE’S stuff, I guess

    TheReturnOfPEB ,

    This is a a ruse to make Work From Home end.

    exanime ,

    ???

    How would this have been prevented by working on site?

    sudo ,

    A crowd strike, you could call it

    Weax ,

    This is just blatantly incorrect - 99% of these outages are going to be fixed remotely.

    boaratio ,

    Not at my company. We’re all stuck in BSOD boot loops thanks to BitLocker, and our BIOS is password protected by IT. This is going to take weeks for them to manually update, on site, all the computers one by one.

    verity_kindle ,

    “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

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