Live: Global IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
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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.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Sometimes there are options that are reasonable for individual users that don’t scale well to enterprise environments.

    Also, the effectively gives attackers a secondary attack surface in addition to the normal remote access technologies that require the machine to be up and running to work.