'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…

  • tibi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Crowdstrike is not a monopoly. The problem here was having a single point of failure, using a piece of software that can access the kernel and autoupdate running on every machine in the organization.

    At the very least, you should stagger updates. Any change done to a business critical server should be validated first. Automatic updates are a bad idea.

    Obviously, crowdstrike messed up, but so did IT departments in every organization that allowed this to happen.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Monopolies aren’t absolute, ever, but having nearly 25% market share is a problem, and is a sign of an oligopoly. Crowdstrike has outsized power and has posted article after article boasting of its dominant market position for many years running.

      I think monopoly-like conditions have become so normalised that people don’t even recognise them for what they are.