Live: Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
www.abc.net.au
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…

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

    This is proof you shouldn’t invest everything in one technology. I won’t say everyone should change to Linux because it isn’t immune to this, but we need to push companies to support several OS

    • @thirteeneEnglish
      4•2 months ago

      The issue here is kernel level applications that can brick a box. Anti viruses compete for resources, no one should run 2 at once