[News] Mass IT Outage

[beorhthelm]

Good advert for Linux / open source software.

which no executive will pay any attention to.

problem here isn't really open/closed source, we've allowed IT vendors to take over and push their software updates without intervention, in the name of convenience.

 

[virtual22]

Love how Microsoft are getting the blame but actually it looks like it was a poor update from a firm meant to stop Malware bricking PC's that has managed to... well... brick PC's!

 

[Springal]

Love how Microsoft are getting the blame but actually it looks like it was a poor update from a firm meant to stop Malware bricking PC's that has managed to... well... brick PC's!

Who wouldn’t exist and be so prominent if Microsoft could secure their own systems. Ironic really

 

[BBassic]

There are some genuine horror stories being posted to the sysadmin subreddit right now.

 

[jcdenton08]

There are some genuine horror stories being posted to the sysadmin subreddit right now.

Do share!

 

[BBassic]

Do share!

Just entire companies having their infrastructure completely bricked with the knowledge that it won't be a Crowdstrike engineer working all weekend to get them back online.

 

[Barham's tash]

Do share!

I enjoyed this one… well the renaming part.

 

[Nobby]

That Feckin Millenium bug was late turning up wasn’t it
They did warn us, fair play

 

[MJsGhost]

Good advert for Linux / open source software.

Tux is looking very smug.

Can't think why

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

CrowdStrike file update bricks PCs around the world

Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround

www.theregister.com

There's a work around but if someone has to do this for every bricked PC it's going to take a long time.

 

[beorhthelm]

seems like there was a major Azure outage overnight as well, unclear if directly related or coincidence.

 

[Bozza]

CrowdStrike file update bricks PCs around the world

Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround

www.theregister.com

There's a work around but if someone has to do this for every bricked PC it's going to take a long time.

...particularly when they're in the hands of people who are 100% WFH and distant from their support base.

 

[jcdenton08]

So am I understanding this right, some kind of automatic update overnight has f***ed up millions of PCs running windows, or is it only those connected to a server?

 

[BBassic]

...particularly when they're in the hands of people who are 100% WFH and distant from their support base.

This is almost certainly going to be the thing that CEOs use to enforce return to office at a lot of places

 

[ozzygull]

Not seeing any issues this morning. We use office 365, but most of production servers are in AWS not Azure. I have just checked the connection to the lab environment and I am able to login to Azure and the connections are up. Don't know what all the fuss is about.

 

[HangletonGull]

We are down at work running on backup

 

[Barham's tash]

This is almost certainly going to be the thing that CEOs use to enforce return to office at a lot of places

Shouldn't do. We are a 60/40% home based time split and the issues for us - Global Bank - are not location based as we use virtual environments in office or at home so coming in to the office made no difference today.

 

[happypig]

I've managed to convince Mrs H that my lawnmower is affected.

 

[BBassic]

Shouldn't do. We are a 60/40% home based time split and the issues for us - Global Bank - are not location based as we use virtual environments in office or at home so coming in to the office made no difference today.

Yeah realistically whether we were all in the office today or not would make no difference. It'd just be a room full of mildly panicking people rather than those people mildly panicking in their home office.

 

[pasty]

Yeah realistically whether we were all in the office today or not would make no difference. It'd just be a room full of mildly panicking people rather than those people mildly panicking in their home office.

Or waiting for day 2 of the test match to start