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…

  • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    Can you use Linux as main OS then? What do you need your computer to do?

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I need to run windows software that makes other windows software, that will be run on our customers (who pay us quite well) PCs that also run windows.

      Plus gaming. I’m not switching my primary box to Linux at any point. If I get a mini server, that will probably ruin Linux.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        5 months ago

        I need to run windows software that makes other windows software, that will be run on our customers (who pay us quite well) PCs that also run windows.

        Mingw, but whatever. Maybe there is somethong mingw can’t do.

        Plus gaming. I’m not switching my primary box to Linux at any point.

        Unless it is Apex and some other worst offenders or you use GPU from the only company actively hostile to linux, gaming is fine.