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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

don't rely on one desktop OS too much. diversity is the best.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Meanwhile Kaspersky: *thinks if so incompetent people can even make antivirus at all*

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Servers on Windows? Even domain controllers can be Linux-based.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Old servers. Also Crowdstrike took down Linux servers a few years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Interesting day

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