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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
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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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[-] HaleHirsute@infosec.pub 67 points 10 months ago

They also gotta get the fix through a trusted channel and not randomly on the internet. (No offense to the person that gave the info, it’s maybe correct but you never know)

[-] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah, and it's unknown if CS is active after the workaround or not (source: hackernews commentator)

[-] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah and a lot of corpo VPNs are gonna be down from this too.

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