'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…

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The internet is just a way to communicate data. The only people affected by this bug are customers of a Windows based “cybersecurity” company.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Just a little bit of a correction. Crowd strike publishes agents for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Its just the particular broken agent is for Windows. They had a 1/3 chance of taking down any one of their three client bases

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The company is not Windows based, they offer clients and agents for Linux and Mac as well (and there are some scattered reports they fucked up some of their Linux customers like this last month).

        The Windows version of their software is what is broken.

    • PoolloverNathan@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Interesting how ARPA net (the internet) was build to with stand these issues, but companies like Microsoft and Amazon (and no regulation) have completely reversed it’s original intent.