'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…

    • theluckyone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Servers weren’t much of a problem, they’re mostly virtual and could be just restored from a backup. The several hundred workstations were a problem. They needed a physical touch. All are encrypted with BitLocker, requiring passkeys stored in AD. Over half are laptops. Most of those don’t have wired ethernet ports, and an account with local admin rights hasn’t logged in since the day they were imaged. Throw in a proper LAPS config, where randomly generated passwords of three dozen characters in length are also stored in AD…

      … Yeah, today was a bad day.

    • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      They run Windows and all this third party software because they would rather pay subscriptions and give up control of their business than retain skilled staff. It has nothing todo with Linux vs Windows. Linux won’t stop doors falling off Boeing planes. It is the myopia of modern business culture.

    • WordBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      No brainer… Blames windows… For a 3rd party issue… The same 3rd party that’s done the same thing here to Linux recently… No brainer achieved.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      My last companyoffered apps as either hosted or on-prem. Once they decided the on-prem version had to be Windows for our customer base, it made sense to have one build, one installer. I’m very happy not to be there today.

      My current employer is all Linux servers and Engineers use Mac laptops. The only ones affected were Management and HR, LoL. Back of the line for you, we have customers to help!

    • nevetsg@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I built a home virtual server host on Proxmox. It destroyed itself 3 times in 6 months. I gave up and installed server 2019 with HyperV. Has been rock solid for years.

    • Art35ian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      4 months ago

      Are you a Linux user?

      Hey everyone, shut up! This guy is a Linux user and he’s here to tell us about using Linux.

      • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Look! We found the anti anti-microsoft user in their natural habitat of talking shit on social media. They are from the same family bootlickers and related to the Tossaladers. Don’t mention you are an alternative OS person around them or they may go into a blind rage.

        • Art35ian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Linux users and vegetarians. Neither can shut the fuck up. Both have made it their identity.