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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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[+] kaffiene -8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Still a MS issue. Both testing and rollout procedures were inadequate

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

But MS had nothing to do with both the testing and rollout?

It's a broken 3rd party component. Croudstrikes testing and rollout procedures were inadequate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

How is it Microsoft's fault when a third party software bricked the OS?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kaffiene 3 points 3 months ago

My bad i thought this went out with a MS update