Live: Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
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There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

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…

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥English
    13•2 months ago

    a few windows machines with controller application installed

    That’s the real kicker.

    • @[email protected]English
      15•2 months ago

      Those machines should be airgapped and no need to run Crowdstrike on them. If the process controller machines of a steel mill are connected to the internet and installing auto updates then there really is no hope for this world.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 months ago

          No, regulatory auditors have boxes that need checking, regardless of the reality of the technical infrastructure.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 months ago

        I work in an environment where the workstations aren’t on the Internet there’s a separate network, there’s still a need for antivirus and we were hit with bsod yesterday

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 months ago

        There is no unsafer place than isolated network. AV and xdr is not optional in industry/healthcare etc.

      • @elephantiumEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        then there really is no hope for this world.

        I don’t know how to tell you this, but…