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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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...

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's a MS process issue. This is a testing failure and a rollout failure

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This had nothing to do with MS, other than their OS being impacted. Not their software that broke, not an update pushed out by their update system. This is an entirely third party piece of software that installs at the kernel level, deeper than MS could reasonably police, even it somehow was their responsibility.

Thid same piece of software was crashing certain Linux distros last month, but it didn't make headlines due to the limited scope.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My bad i thought this went out with a MS update

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Microsoft would never push an update on a Friday. They usually push their major patches on Tuesdays, unless there's something that's extremely important and can't wait.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Windows is imfamous for a do-it-yourself install process, they are likely using their own deployment tools. If anything, criticize them for not helping the update process at all.