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…

  • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    5 months ago

    I’m not getting an account on Statista, and I agree that its marketshare isn’t “marginal” in practice, but something is up with those figures, since overwhelmingly internet hosted services are on top of Linux. Internal servers may be a bit different, but “servers” I’d expect to count internet servers…

    • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      It’s stated in the synopsis, below where it says you need to pay for the article. Anyway, it might be true as the hosting servers themselves often host up to hundreds of Windows machines. But it really depends on what is measured and the method used, which we don’t know because who the hell has a statista account anyway.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      since overwhelmingly internet hosted services are on top of Linux

      This is a common misconception. Most internet hosted services are behind a Linux box, but that doesn’t mean those services actually run on Linux.