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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How exactly is Microsoft responsible for this? It's a kernel level driver that intercepts system calls, and the software updated itself.

This software was crashing Linux distros last month too, but that didn't make headlines because it effected less machines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

From what I've heard, didn't the issue happen not solely because of CS driver, but because of a MS update that was rolled out at the same time, and the changes the update made caused the CS driver to go haywire? If that's the case, there's not much MS or CS could have done to test it beforehand, especially if both updates rolled out at around the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I've seen zero suggestion of this in any reporting about the issue. Not saying you're wrong, but you're definitely going to need to find some sources.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Is there any links to this?

[–] kaffiene 1 points 5 months ago

My apologies I thought this went out with a MS update