'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

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…

  • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    had similar issues with specific Linux distros a month ago. It just didn’t get reported on because it didn’t have as wide of an impact.

    Because most data center admins using linux are not so stupid to subscribe to remote updates from a third party. Linux issues happen when critical package vulnerabilities make it into the repo.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

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      Tell me how you haven’t worked as a sysadmin again.

      This wasn’t some switchable feature. The only way I’ve seen to stop this software from auto updating (per some comments on Hacker News/Y Combinator) as it chooses is by blocking the update servers at the firewall or through DNS black holing.

      And yes, they chose to use this software. Look. Crowdstrike bought a fucking SuperBowl ad, a bunch of executives drank the kool aid, and a lot of tech departments were told that they’d be rolling this software out. That’s just how corporate IT works sometimes.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I was saying:

        most data center admins using linux are not so stupid to subscribe to remote updates from a third party

        Your response is not related in any way to that. If a third party software - running on system rights - forces auto-updates, that’s called a “rootkit” and any sane admin would refuse to install such a package.

        Competent here also meaning “if the upper management refuses to listen to my advice, I leave because I have other options”. People who implement stupid policies - and especially technological solutions - against their principles are a cancer to democracy. Those are the people that enable tech-illiterate morons to implement totalitarian regimes.