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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Got a link? I find it hard to believe that a process like that would stop because of a few windows machines not booting.

[–] TheBat 13 points 3 months ago (6 children)

a few windows machines with controller application installed

That's the real kicker.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Those machines should be airgapped and no need to run Crowdstrike on them. If the process controller machines of a steel mill are connected to the internet and installing auto updates then there really is no hope for this world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There is no unsafer place than isolated network. AV and xdr is not optional in industry/healthcare etc.

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