'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…

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    The issue was caused by a third-party vendor, though. A similar issue could have happened on other OSes too. There’s relatively intrusive endpoint security systems for MacOS and Linux too.

    • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
      211·
      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.

      • stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        More than that: it’s an IT security and infrastructure admin issue. How was this 3rd party software update allowed to go out to so many systems to break them all at once with no one testing it?

        • Malfeasant@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Bingo. I work for a small software company, so I expect shit like this to go out to production every so often and cause trouble for our couple tens of thousands of clients… But I can’t fathom how any company with worldwide reach can let it happen…

          • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            That’s because cloudstrike likely has significantly worse leadership compared to your company.

            They have a massive business development budget though.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        2 months ago

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

      • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
        3·
        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.

      • kaffiene@lemmy.worldEnglish
        48·
        2 months ago

        It’s a MS process issue. This is a testing failure and a rollout failure

        • HelloHotel@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Windows is imfamous for a do-it-yourself install process, they are likely using their own deployment tools. If anything, criticize them for not helping the update process at all.