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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

No its not running on all Linux machines. Just like its not running on all wondows machines. But the companies who employ it on their employees laptops also run it on their servers. Crowd strike has easily deployed .debs, .rpms, and .tar.gzs, as well as golden images with it already installed. What we experienced yesterday was the minor version of this catastrophe. If the Linux push had been bad, decent chance it would have taken down major internet structure including the DNS servers you typically use to resolve internet addresses. It would seem to a large number of users that the entire internet was down