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.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yeah my plans of going to sleep last night were thoroughly dashed as every single windows server across every datacenter I manage between two countries all cried out at the same time lmao

        • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I work in a datacenter, but no Windows. I slept so well.

          Though a couple years back some ransomware that also impacted Linux ran through, but I got to sleep well because it only bit people with easily guessed root passwords. It bit a lot of other departments at the company though.

          This time even the Windows folks were spared, because CrowdStrike wasn’t the solution they infested themselves with (they use other providers, who I fully expect to screw up the same way one day).

      • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Not too long ago, a lot of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software ran on MS SQL Server. Businesses made significant investments in software and training, and some of them don’t have the technical, financial, or logistical resources to adapt - momentum keeps them using Windows Server.

        For example, small businesses that are physically located in rural areas can’t use cloud based services because rural internet is too slow and unreliable. Its not quite the case that there’s no amount of money you can pay for a good internet connection in rural America, but last time I looked into it, Verizon wanted to charge me $20,000 per mile to run a fiber optic cable from the nearest town to my client’s farm.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Well, I’ve seen some, but they usually don’t have automatic updates and generally do not have access to the Internet.

      • Mjpasta710@midwest.socialEnglish
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        4 months ago

        This is a crowdstrike issue specifically related to the falcon sensor. Happens to affect only windows hosts.

      • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Marginal? You must be joking. A vast amount of servers run on Windows Server. Where I work alone we have several hundred and many companies have a similar setup. Statista put the Windows Server OS market share over 70% in 2019. While I find it hard to believe it would be that high, it does clearly indicate it’s most certainly not a marginal percentage.

        • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I’m not getting an account on Statista, and I agree that its marketshare isn’t “marginal” in practice, but something is up with those figures, since overwhelmingly internet hosted services are on top of Linux. Internal servers may be a bit different, but “servers” I’d expect to count internet servers…

          • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
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            4 months ago

            It’s stated in the synopsis, below where it says you need to pay for the article. Anyway, it might be true as the hosting servers themselves often host up to hundreds of Windows machines. But it really depends on what is measured and the method used, which we don’t know because who the hell has a statista account anyway.

      • Eril@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        My current company does and I hate it so much. Who even got that idea in the first place? Linux always dominated server-side stuff, no?

        • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.caEnglish
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          4 months ago

          You should read the saga of when MS bought Hotmail. The work they had to do to be able to run it on Windows was incredible. It actually helped MS improve their server OS, and it still wasn’t as performance when they switched over.

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yes, but the developers learned on Windows, so they wrote software for Windows.

      • marcos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s only marginal for running custom code. Every large organization has at least a few of them running important out-of-the-box services.