Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
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...
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A bunch of shitty sysadmins/cybersec people just learned why you don't blindly deploy new updates to production without testing them first.
I've used Crowdstrike before. It has support for deploying version N to a pilot group, N-1 to the test environment and N-2 to production.
Apparently the slow rollout was skipped (on Crowdstrike's end) for this
That's true about the test group deployments, but it turned out this one was not an agent update under that control system. It's a Channel File update that goes out to all endpoints automatically.