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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I was quite surprised when I heard the news. I had been working for hours on my PC without any issues. It pays off not to use Windows.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 17 points 4 months ago

Huh, so that's why the office couldn't order pizza last night lmfao

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

I picked the right week to be on PTO hahaha

[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So that's why my work laptop is down for the count today. I'm even getting that same error as the thumbnail picture

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (16 children)

If these affected systems are boot looping, how will they be fixed? Reinstall?

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[–] 1luv8008135@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Everyone is assuming it’s some intern pushing a release out accidentally or a lack of QA but Microsoft also pushed out July security updates that have been causing bsods on the 9th(?). These aren’t optional either.

What’s the likelihood that the CS file was tested on devices that hadn’t got the latest windows security update and it was an unholy union of both those things that’s caused this meltdown. The timelines do potentially line up when you consider your average agile delivery cadence.

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 12 points 4 months ago

Apparently at work "some servers are experiencing problems". Sadly, none of the ones I need to use :(

[–] uis@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

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

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