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…

  • @EinridiEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    The problem here isn’t if you should run EDR or not it’s that people need to take the risk and responsibilities seriously and the cure needs to to be better than the disease.

    If you need to hand remote kernel level access over to a company it’s in you to make sure they have the security, QA and basic competency to shoulder that responsibility.

    And when it comes out that they don’t even run or verify their code before deploying it to millions of machines all at once, it’s on you for buying not vetting them.

    Just like users should check files and where they come from before running them IT professionals need to do the same.