'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…

  • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The thought of a local computer being unable to boot because some remote server somewhere is unavailable makes me laugh and sad at the same time.

    • rxxrc@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. As far as I know it’s an issue with a driver installed on the computers, not with anything trying to reach out to an external server. If that were the case you’d expect it to fail to boot any time you don’t have an Internet connection.

      Windows is bad but it’s not that bad yet.

  • Raxiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    A lot of people I work with were affected, I wasn’t one of them. I had assumed it was because I put my machine to sleep yesterday (and every other day this week) and just woke it up after booting it. I assumed it was an on startup thing and that’s why I didn’t have it.

    Our IT provider already broke EVERYTHING earlier this month when they remote installed" Nexthink Collector" which forced a 30+ minute CHKDSK on every boot for EVERYONE, until they rolled out a fix (which they were at least able to do remotely), and I didn’t want to have to deal with that the week before I go in leave.

    But it sounds like it even happened to running systems so now I don’t know why I wasn’t affected, unless it’s a windows 10 only thing?

    Our IT have had some grief lately, but at least they specified Intel 12th gen on our latest CAD machines, rather than 13th or 14th, so they’ve got at least one win.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Your computer was likely not powered on during the time window between the fucked update pushing out and when they stopped pushing it out.

      • Raxiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        That makes sense, although I must have just missed it, for people I work with to catch it.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I was quite surprised when I heard the news. I had been working for hours on my PC without any issues. It pays off not to use Windows.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s not a flaw with Windows causing this.

      The issue is with a widely used third party security software that installs as a kernel level driver. It had an auto update that causes bluescreening moments after booting into the OS.

      This same software is available for Linux and Mac, and had similar issues with specific Linux distros a month ago. It just didn’t get reported on because it didn’t have as wide of an impact.

        • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          4 months ago

          My Windows gaming PC is completely fine right now, because I don’t use crowd strike. Microsoft didn’t have anything to do with crowd strikes’ rollout or support.

          I love Linux and use it as my daily driver for everything besides some online games. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize Microsoft and Windows, but crowd strike breaking stuff isn’t one of them, at least in my opinion.