This isn’t a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn’t log in.
Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)
Seems insane to me that one company’s messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.
That’s an old alert. We run CS on Linux as well and have not encountered this issue in the two years we’ve had it going.
It was affecting RHEL 9.4 users within the last two months.
This specific issue was triggered today by a microsoft update - that’s something else.
Agree it may be indicative of poor quality software control, but it’s not this.
This specific issue is different than the other specific issue, correct.
The point is, “this could only happen on windows” is wrong.