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...
One possible fix is to delete a particular file while booting in safe mode. But then they'll need to fix each system manually. My company encrypts the disks as well so it's going to be a even bigger pain (for them). I'm just happy my weekend started early.
that would only work for like low level people's laptops. apparently if your role requires a more secure machine you also have to deal with bitlocker whiiiiiiich is tied in with crowdstrike soooooo no dice.
I mean if your IT was smart, IF they were smart, they would have the bitlocker decryptions backed up on like a usb or something. IF you need to access the decryption via microsoft then you're apparently borked for now.
oh no doubt, I was telling an old manager of mine today that this "fix" will likely take weeks as he thought it'd just be something they could update. yeah...no. it's a manual fix for each individul machine. I do not envy anyone working in IT right now.