'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around 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…

  • HaleHirsute@infosec.pubEnglish
    691·
    5 months ago

    They also gotta get the fix through a trusted channel and not randomly on the internet. (No offense to the person that gave the info, it’s maybe correct but you never know)

    • kadotux@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      151·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, and it’s unknown if CS is active after the workaround or not (source: hackernews commentator)

    • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      True, but knowing what the fix might be means you can Google it and see what comes back. It was on StackOverflow for example, but at the time of this comment has been taken offline for moderation - whatever that means.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Meh. Even if it bricked crowdstrike instead of helping, you can just restore the file you deleted. A file in that folder can’t brick a windows system.

    • huginnEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Yeah and a lot of corpo VPNs are gonna be down from this too.