Live: Global IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
www.abc.net.au
There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

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.

  • hue2hri19@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is proof you shouldn’t invest everything in one technology. I won’t say everyone should change to Linux because it isn’t immune to this, but we need to push companies to support several OS

  • spacesatan@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas.

    Never trust a texan

  • misterkiem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    lol

    too bad me posting this will bump the comment count though. maybe we should try to keep the vote count to 404

  • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Meanwhile Kaspersky: *thinks if so incompetent people can even make antivirus at all*

  • Raxiel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A lot of people I work with were affected, I wasn’t one of them. I had assumed it was because I put my machine to sleep yesterday (and every other day this week) and just woke it up after booting it. I assumed it was an on startup thing and that’s why I didn’t have it.

    Our IT provider already broke EVERYTHING earlier this month when they remote installed" Nexthink Collector" which forced a 30+ minute CHKDSK on every boot for EVERYONE, until they rolled out a fix (which they were at least able to do remotely), and I didn’t want to have to deal with that the week before I go in leave.

    But it sounds like it even happened to running systems so now I don’t know why I wasn’t affected, unless it’s a windows 10 only thing?

    Our IT have had some grief lately, but at least they specified Intel 12th gen on our latest CAD machines, rather than 13th or 14th, so they’ve got at least one win.

  • BurnSquirrel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m so exhausted… This is madness. As a Linux user I’ve busy all day telling people with bricked PCs that Linux is better but there are just so many. It never ends. I think this is outage is going to keep me busy all weekend.

    • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There is nothing unsafer than local networks.

      AV/XDR is not optional even in offline networks. If you don’t have visibility on your network, you are totally screwed.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Honestly my philosophy these days, when it comes to anything proprietary. They just can’t keep their grubby little fingers off of working software.

      At least this time it was an accident.