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…

  • @[email protected]English
    70•4 months ago

    I’m so exhausted… This is madness. As a Linux user I’ve busy all day telling people with bricked PCs that Linux is better but there are just so many. It never ends. I think this is outage is going to keep me busy all weekend.

    • @[email protected]English
      19•4 months ago

      What are you, an apostle? Lol. This issue affects Windows, but it’s not a Windows issue. It’s wholly on CrowdStrike for a malformed driver update. This could happen to Linux just as easily given how CS operates. I like Linux too, but this isn’t the battle.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•4 months ago

        Yeah it’s all fun and games until you actually convince someone and then you gotta explain how a bootloader works to someone who still calls their browser “Google”

    • @[email protected]English
      13•4 months ago

      A month or so ago a crowdstrike update was breaking some of our Linux vms with newer kernels. So it’s not just the os.

    • @[email protected]English
      12•4 months ago

      This isn’t really a Windows vs Linux issue as far as I’m aware. It was a bad driver update made by a third party. I don’t see why Linux couldn’t suffer from the same kind of issue.

      We should dunk on Windows for Windows specific flaws. Like how Windows won’t let me reinstall a corrupted Windows Store library file because admins can’t be trusted to manage Microsoft components on their own machine.

      • The Menemen!English
        1•4 months ago

        I am no expert. But afaik drivers normally are integrated into the kernel and intensively tested by several parties before getting onto your computer. Only for proprietary drivers this would be problematic under Linux.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•4 months ago

          Crowdstrike by default loads its own kernel modules on linux as well, not much different from how it works under Windows.