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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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[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Never update unless something is broken.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

BTW, I use Arch.

[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If it was Arch you'd update once every 15 minutes whether anything's broken or not.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I use Tumbleweed, so I only get updates once/day, twice if something explodes. I used to use Arch, so my update cycle has lengthened from 1-2x/day to 1-2x/week, which is so much better.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

gets two update notifications

Ah, must be explosion Wednesday

[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago

I really like the tumbleweed method, seems like the best compromise between arch and debian style updates.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

That's advice so smart you're guaranteed to have massive security holes.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is fine as long as you politely ask everyone on the Internet to slow down and stop exploiting new vulnerabilities.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think vulnerabilities found count as "something broken" and chap you replied to simply did not think that far ahead hahah

[–] huginn@feddit.it 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For real - A cyber security company should basically always be pushing out updates.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Exactly. You don't know what the vulnerabilities are, but the vendors pushing out updates typically do. So stay on top of updates to limit the attack surface.

Major releases can wait, security updates should be pushed as soon as they can be proven to not break prod.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

always pushing out updates

Notes: Version bump: Eric is a twat so I removed his name from the listed coder team members on the about window.

git push --force

leans back in chair productive day, productive day indeed

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 months ago

This is AV, and even possible that it is part of definitions (for example some windows file deleted as false positive). You update those daily.