Live: Cyber security company CrowdStrike linked to global IT outage
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Computer security company CrowdStrike is linked to a major IT outage affecting banks, airports, supermarkets and businesses across Australia and the world. Follow live.

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…

  • foremanguyEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Bahaha 😂😂 continue using proprietary software, that’s all you are going to get in addition to privacy issues… Switch to Linux.

      • foremanguyEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Crowd can run on linux, but it is running on all Linux machines? I’ve seen support for some RedHat machines, show me if there’s more

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          No its not running on all Linux machines. Just like its not running on all wondows machines. But the companies who employ it on their employees laptops also run it on their servers. Crowd strike has easily deployed .debs, .rpms, and .tar.gzs, as well as golden images with it already installed. What we experienced yesterday was the minor version of this catastrophe. If the Linux push had been bad, decent chance it would have taken down major internet structure including the DNS servers you typically use to resolve internet addresses. It would seem to a large number of users that the entire internet was down

    • arthurpizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Not easy to switch a secured 4,000+ workstation business. Plus, a lot of companies get their support, license, and managed email from one vendor. It’s bundled in such a way that it would cost MORE to deploy Linux. (And that very much on purpose)

      • silkroadtraveler@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        It’s entertaining to me that our brand of monopolistic / oligarchic capitalism itself disincentivizes one-time costs that are greatly outweighed by the risk of future occurrences. Even when those one-time costs would result in greater stability and lower prices…and not even on that big of a time horizon. There is an army of developers that would be so motivated to work on a migration project like this. But then I guess execs couldn’t jet set around the world to hang out at the Crowdstrike F1 hospitality tent every weekend.