CrowdStrike update causing massive global outages

[Insane_Homer]

A Crowdstrike update is causing DSOB in Windows 10/Server.

Major fucking shit show.

[Insane_Homer]

Sky News offline

https://news.sky.com/watch-live

[Insane_Homer]

Potential fix

[Guy Smiley]

It's global...

but they've released a fix. Uh huh...

[Sandstorm]

Oh no!! O365 might go down and I'll have to sit in the sunshine instead of working today.

[tabascoboy]

Had to pay for shopping with cash earlier, and the in-store cash machine ran out just after 9am...

[Sandstorm]

Had to pay for shopping with cash earlier, and the in-store cash machine ran out just after 9am...

Shit! I'm getting the train to London tomorrow, I have an online gift voucher for my lunch and no cash to buy cocktails afterwards.

[SaintK]

Had to pay for shopping with cash earlier, and the in-store cash machine ran out just after 9am...

Shit! I'm getting the train to London tomorrow, I have an online gift voucher for my lunch and no cash to buy cocktails afterwards.

It's a tough life!

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Providing the card machine is working at the pub later.....

[fishfoodie]

Lot of very smug Unix guys around today !

OS Monoculture is a very bad idea.

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Just had to use my emergency 20 quid note at Waitrose. Most cards not working.

[duke]

My card was fine at Waitrose and the petrol station, perhaps Wiltshire is still a few years behind the times

[Sandstorm]

Just had to use my emergency 20 quid note at Waitrose. Most cards not working.

Thank god I bought my rum, Fever Tree Mojito mix (fucking delicious BTW) and limes yesterday.

[SaintK]

My card was fine at Waitrose and the petrol station, perhaps Wiltshire is still a few years behind the times

All fine in M&S as well where I've just bought lunch.

[tabascoboy]

Different card payment systems everywhere I guess, some affected and some not. What a good idea it was for every bank in our town to close and take their ATMs away...

[fishfoodie]

I'd like to think some management in my company would pause for a moment, & wonder if their decision to can most of their remaining senior IT Staff, to outsource them to India, was really such a great idea ?

But I doubt it.

[tabascoboy]

CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.

[Ovals]

Going to the T20 at the Bowl (Hampshire) tonight - it's a cashless venue - hope it's all fixed by then or I'll have to take my own food and drink !

[fishfoodie]

I don't think this is survivable for CrowdStrike as a company; they'll be sued into Chapter-11 by the end of next week.

[sturginho]

CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.

It works on my machine!

[tabascoboy]

Going to the T20 at the Bowl (Hampshire) tonight - it's a cashless venue - hope it's all fixed by then or I'll have to take my own food and drink !

Seems all very hit and miss, my supermarket in town affected, another one not.

[Ovals]

I don't think this is survivable for CrowdStrike as a company; they'll be sued into Chapter-11 by the end of next week.

I assume they'd have insurance - but it might still be a killer blow as they'll have lost the trust of their customers.

[Biffer]

The Open Golf is entirely cashless but there don't seem to be any problems here.

[fishfoodie]

The Open Golf is entirely cashless but there don't seem to be any problems here.

It just depends on if your admins configured systems to pull updates during the window the poison update was on servers. It's why I used to distribute update time across different days, & times of day, so you wouldn't end up with everything going tits up at the same time.

[Sandstorm]

Bunch of customers planned work in Singapore, Prague and Dublin cancelled over the weekend due to the outages. Happy, happy days!!!

[Sandstorm]

The Open Golf is entirely cashless but there don't seem to be any problems here.

It just depends on if your admins configured systems to pull updates during the window the poison update was on servers. It's why I used to distribute update time across different days, & times of day, so you wouldn't end up with everything going tits up at the same time.

I'd do it 3 days after everyone else, so they experienced the problem and a fix was issued by the vendor 1-2 days later....

[Slick]

This is the start of the bitcoin takeover. We can’t say we weren’t warned

[Tichtheid]

Anyone know how Liz Truss’s first day at Microsoft is going?

[JM2K6]

This is the start of the bitcoin takeover. We can’t say we weren’t warned

Famously secure and reliable, the crypto exchanges

[fishfoodie]

This is the start of the bitcoin takeover. We can’t say we weren’t warned

Famously secure and reliable, the crypto exchanges

And all run by paragons of virtue .......

[ASMO]

The Open Golf is entirely cashless but there don't seem to be any problems here.

It just depends on if your admins configured systems to pull updates during the window the poison update was on servers. It's why I used to distribute update time across different days, & times of day, so you wouldn't end up with everything going tits up at the same time.

Good practice is to update test/dev servers first, then wait 1 ir 2 weeks before you do prodiction for precisely this reason. Thats what i get my team to do.

[Biffer]

The Open Golf is entirely cashless but there don't seem to be any problems here.

It just depends on if your admins configured systems to pull updates during the window the poison update was on servers. It's why I used to distribute update time across different days, & times of day, so you wouldn't end up with everything going tits up at the same time.

Good practice is to update test/dev servers first, then wait 1 ir 2 weeks before you do prodiction for precisely this reason. Thats what i get my team to do.

Difficulty is if it’s a critical security fix. We always used to take a huge amount of care with updates / upgrades but if something was a critical vulnerability, it was now a known vulnerability that bad actors would be checking out immediately. So at a major bank, you needed to do it quickly.

[Insane_Homer]

LOL. The Crowdstrike CEO, George Kurtz, was the Mcafee CTO in 2010 when they did a similar... oh dear.

[PCPhil]

We really shouldn't have left the trees.

[fishfoodie]

LOL. The Crowdstrike CEO, George Kurtz, was the Mcafee CTO in 2010 when they did a similar... oh dear.

So hes the source of my randomization of updates !

That was another complete failure of QA, luckily back then I had a bunch of CoOps to mobilize for rebuilds & recoveries

[Rhubarb & Custard]

We really shouldn't have left the trees.

Or even the soup. A safer time when fires weren't possible

[Torquemada 1420]

Oh no!! O365 might go down and I'll have to sit in the sunshine instead of working today.

Once you try the new version of Outlook, you might want to make that a permanent state of affairs.

[Biffer]

The Mercedes F1 team trying to fix their IT while wearing Crowdstrike sponsored shorts is quite funny

[Insane_Homer]

Toto's still on hold with Crowdstrike support

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[Slick]

This is the start of the bitcoin takeover. We can’t say we weren’t warned

Famously secure and reliable, the crypto exchanges

And all run by paragons of virtue .......

For avoidance of doubt, this was in relation to DAC’s prediction