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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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...

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[–] 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The thought of a local computer being unable to boot because some remote server somewhere is unavailable makes me laugh and sad at the same time.

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  • [–] [S] 73 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't think that's what's happening here. As far as I know it's an issue with a driver installed on the computers, not with anything trying to reach out to an external server. If that were the case you'd expect it to fail to boot any time you don't have an Internet connection.

    Windows is bad but it's not that bad yet.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s just a fun coincidence that the azure outage was around the same time.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A remote server that you pay some serious money to that pushes a garbage driver that prevents yours from booting

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not only does it (possibly) prevent booting, but it will also bsod it first so you'll have to see how lucky you get.

    Goddamn I hate crowdstrike. Between this and them fucking up and letting malware back into a system, I have nothing nice to say about them.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    It's bsod on boot

    And anything encrypted with bitlocker can't even go into safe mode to fix it

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It doesn't consistently bsod on boot, about half of affected machines did in our environment, but all of them did experience a bsod while running. A good amount of ours just took the bad update, bsod'd and came back up.

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