'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…

  • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    That’s the annoying thing here. Everyone, particularly Lemmy where everyone runs Linux and FOSS, thinks this is a Microsoft/Windows issue. It’s not, it’s a Crowdstrike issue.

    • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Everyone, particularly Lemmy where everyone runs Linux and FOSS, knows it is a Crowdstrike issue.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Many news sources said it’s a “Microsoft update”, so it’s understandable that people are confused.

      Also, there was an Azure outage yesterday.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        This had nothing to do with MS, other than their OS being impacted. Not their software that broke, not an update pushed out by their update system. This is an entirely third party piece of software that installs at the kernel level, deeper than MS could reasonably police, even it somehow was their responsibility.

        Thid same piece of software was crashing certain Linux distros last month, but it didn’t make headlines due to the limited scope.

          • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Microsoft would never push an update on a Friday. They usually push their major patches on Tuesdays, unless there’s something that’s extremely important and can’t wait.