'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
    211·
    4 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·
      4 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·
        4 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·
          4 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·
      4 months ago

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

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      3·
      4 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·
      4 months ago

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

      • HelloHotel@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 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.