Some Azure functions have APIs into Crowdstrike so it's very likely to be the same issue.
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[News] Mass IT Outage
- Thread starter nevergoagain
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- Oct 17, 2008
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Iggle Piggle
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- Sep 3, 2010
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Situation like any normal day at my place. Nothing is working and no one is doing any work.
Albion_Dave
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Been in since 7 and no access to EMIS web which is a clinical system for primary care. GP surgeries and pharmacy services are really effected by this.
RandyWanger
Je suis rôti de boeuf
Mac admin here in peace 
wouldn't have known there was an issue if I didn't try log onto NSC first thing. I sent a few Slacks letting the company know there was a mass global outage and to not disturb me, told my (non technical) boss to leave me alone and have had a lovely morning sat out on the patio catching up on yesterday stage of the Tour de France and winding up my mate who works at Mercedes F1 who's been in the paddock since 5am and unable to do anything as their sponsor CrowdStrike broke their systems.
wouldn't have known there was an issue if I didn't try log onto NSC first thing. I sent a few Slacks letting the company know there was a mass global outage and to not disturb me, told my (non technical) boss to leave me alone and have had a lovely morning sat out on the patio catching up on yesterday stage of the Tour de France and winding up my mate who works at Mercedes F1 who's been in the paddock since 5am and unable to do anything as their sponsor CrowdStrike broke their systems.
Genuinely made me laugh out loud.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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simple fix apparently, delete/change a file name to stop the doom loop and get back into Windows.
www.theregister.com
now just have to apply over whole desktop and server estate...
CrowdStrike file update bricks PCs around the world
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround
www.theregister.com
now just have to apply over whole desktop and server estate...
Simple if you have one PC in front of you and you have admin rights to do that.simple fix apparently, delete/change a file name to stop the doom loop and get back into Windows.
CrowdStrike file update bricks PCs around the world
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround
now just have to apply over whole desktop and server estate...
Less simple if you have thousands of machines spread far and wide, and the users of those machines lack either the admin rights and/or the technical confidence to operate a command line.
I’m sat here reading this thread on an iPad, while watching Britain’s Got Talent on the TV (wife’s choice of course). Both of these happening whilst using a VPN. Comms seem OK my end.
Hospitals, banks, media, airlines hit by major IT outage
Cyber-security firm Crowdstrike said its update had caused the problem on computers running Windows.www.bbc.com
What I gather from this is that infrastructure and communication in Australia is built on Microsoft Office products. That's certainly one way to build society...
MTSeagulls
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- Sep 18, 2019
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All slightly amusing I guess until you can't pay for anything or unable to access your bank accounts.
First thing I'll be buying is a new mattress.
First thing I'll be buying is a new mattress.
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
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If you can even get into the boxsimple fix apparently, delete/change a file name to stop the doom loop and get back into Windows.
CrowdStrike file update bricks PCs around the world
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround
now just have to apply over whole desktop and server estate...
BBC now reporting it can't be fixed remotely and needs a "hands on keyboard" reboot of every affected computer.
Crowdstrike have 24,000 customers worldwide.
Customers, i.e. companies. Each with many, many end users.
What a shitshow.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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Yeah...this ain't getting fixed for a lot of people until next week.
That was my (badly-made) point.
One PC in front of you where you have admin rights = easy
Hundreds or thousands of PCs (including servers) spread all over the place, and no-one local having admin rights = less easy.
The US will be slowly waking up to this nightmare.
- Oct 17, 2008
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@ManOfSussex
Gremlins in the system there, ghosts in the machine. Perhaps a metaphor, for err... Good evening!
Gremlins in the system there, ghosts in the machine. Perhaps a metaphor, for err... Good evening!