1164

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

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

465 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 47 points 3 months ago

This sort of fix might not be accessible to a lot of employees who don't have admin access on their company laptops, and if the laptop can't be accessed remotely by IT then the options are very limited. Trying to walk a lot of nontechnical users through this over the phone won't go very well.

[-] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 months ago

Yup, that's me. We booted into safe mode, tried navigating into the CrowdStrike folder and boom: permission denied.

this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024

1164 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

59253 readers

2415 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS