'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…

  • areyouevenrealEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Lots of security systems are kernel level (at least partially) this includes SELinux and AppArmor by the way. It’s a necessity for these things to actually be effective.

    • uisEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      You missed most important line:

      >Make it proprietary