'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…

    • Art35ian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Are you a Linux user?

      Hey everyone, shut up! This guy is a Linux user and he’s here to tell us about using Linux.

      • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Look! We found the anti anti-microsoft user in their natural habitat of talking shit on social media. They are from the same family bootlickers and related to the Tossaladers. Don’t mention you are an alternative OS person around them or they may go into a blind rage.

        • Art35ian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Linux users and vegetarians. Neither can shut the fuck up. Both have made it their identity.

    • nevetsg@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I built a home virtual server host on Proxmox. It destroyed itself 3 times in 6 months. I gave up and installed server 2019 with HyperV. Has been rock solid for years.

    • theluckyone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Servers weren’t much of a problem, they’re mostly virtual and could be just restored from a backup. The several hundred workstations were a problem. They needed a physical touch. All are encrypted with BitLocker, requiring passkeys stored in AD. Over half are laptops. Most of those don’t have wired ethernet ports, and an account with local admin rights hasn’t logged in since the day they were imaged. Throw in a proper LAPS config, where randomly generated passwords of three dozen characters in length are also stored in AD…

      … Yeah, today was a bad day.