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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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[–] 58 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This is fine as long as you politely ask everyone on the Internet to slow down and stop exploiting new vulnerabilities.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I think vulnerabilities found count as "something broken" and chap you replied to simply did not think that far ahead hahah

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    For real - A cyber security company should basically always be pushing out updates.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Exactly. You don't know what the vulnerabilities are, but the vendors pushing out updates typically do. So stay on top of updates to limit the attack surface.

    Major releases can wait, security updates should be pushed as soon as they can be proven to not break prod.

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