Live: Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
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There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

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…

      • Trailblazing Braille TaserEnglish
        42•2 months ago

        And especially now the work week has slimmed down where no one works on Friday anymore

        Excuse me, what now? I didn’t get that memo.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•2 months ago

            Is the 4x10 really worth the extra day off? Tbh I’m not sure it would work very well for me… I find just one 10-hour day to be kinda draining, so doing that 4 times a week every week feels like it might just cancel out any benefits of the extra day off.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•2 months ago

              I am very used to it so I don’t find it draining. I tried 5x8 once and it felt more like working an extra day than getting more time in the afternoon. If that makes sense. I also start early around 7am, so I am only staying a little later than other people

          • @[email protected]English
            2•2 months ago

            I changed jobs because the new management was all “if I can’t look at your ass you don’t work here” and I agreed.

            I now work remotely 100% and it’s in the union contract with the 21vacation days and 9x9 compressed time and regular raises. The view out my home office window is partially obscured by a floofy cat and we both like it that way.

            I’d work here until I die.

      • @[email protected]English
        15•2 months ago

        Yep, anything done on Friday can enter the world on a Monday.

        I don’t really have any plans most weekends, but I sure as shit don’t plan on spending it fixing Friday’s fuckups.

        • @sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
          3•2 months ago

          And honestly, anything that can be done Monday is probably better done on Tuesday. Why start off your week by screwing stuff up?

          We have a team policy to never do externally facing updates on Fridays, and we generally avoid Mondays as well unless it’s urgent. Here’s roughly what each day is for:

          • Monday - urgent patches that were ready on Friday; everyone WFH
          • Tuesday - most releases; work in-office
          • Wed - fixing stuff we broke on Tuesday/planning the next release; work in-office
          • Thu - fixing stuff we broke on Tuesday, closing things out for the week; WFH
          • Fri - documentation, reviews, etc; WFH

          If things go sideways, we come in on Thu to straighten it out, but that almost never happens.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 months ago

        Actually I was not even joking. I also work in IT and have exactly the same opinion. Friday is for easy stuff!

    • @mercEnglish
      4•2 months ago

      You posted this 14 hours ago, which would have made it 4:30 am in Austin, Texas where Cloudstrike is based. You may have felt the effect on Friday, but it’s extremely likely that the person who made the change did it late on a Thursday.

    • @spyd3rEnglish
      -34•2 months ago

      Never update unless something is broken.

      • @[email protected]English
        58•2 months ago

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

        • @Ookami38English
          22•2 months ago

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

            • @sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
              4•2 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.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•2 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

          • @sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
            2•2 months ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•2 months ago

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

              • @sugar_in_your_teaEnglish
                1•2 months ago

                I think a lot of what (open)SUSE does is pretty solid. For example, microOS is a fantastic compromise between a stable base and a rolling userspace, and I think a lot of people would do well to switch to it from Leap. I currently use Leap for my NAS, but I do plan to switch to microOS.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 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.