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…

  • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
    56·
    5 months ago

    This is fine as long as you politely ask everyone on the Internet to slow down and stop exploiting new vulnerabilities.

    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20·
      5 months ago

      I think vulnerabilities found count as “something broken” and chap you replied to simply did not think that far ahead hahah

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
        12·
        5 months ago

        For real - A cyber security company should basically always be pushing out updates.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          Exactly. You don’t know what the vulnerabilities are, but the vendors pushing out updates typically do. So stay on top of updates to limit the attack surface.

          Major releases can wait, security updates should be pushed as soon as they can be proven to not break prod.

        • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          always pushing out updates

          Notes: Version bump: Eric is a twat so I removed his name from the listed coder team members on the about window.

          git push --force

          leans back in chair productive day, productive day indeed