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Major IT/ Tech outage affecting many countries

Is a state-sponsored bad actor to blame? It'd be more likely to be a Russian cyberattack than a Chinese one. Vova must be getting desperate. Of course, someone at CrowdStrike might just have screwed up.

Update: From what I've read - and I can't vouch for the accuracy - it was a screwup in an update - although perhaps the update was corrupted by an external agency?
 
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It was Crowdstrike. An update got screwy.


From my TV on the ABC.

That's the ABC reporter talking to the camera

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^ I saw similar story on channel 9 earlier. I saw a friend in Brisbane make a job about people rushing off to buy toilet paper (which made me laugh)

I'm lucky that I have some cash and wasn't effected. I saw people on the news that were at supermarkets, airports and other places were affected. Some people will be just waking up to this issue. I was able to log into my bank (not that I plan on buying anything tonight). Was thinking about a game on steam, but might wait a while and play something else.
 
PlainSimpleJoel said:
^ I saw similar story on channel 9 earlier. I saw a friend in Brisbane make a job about people rushing off to buy toilet paper (which made me laugh)

I'm lucky that I have some cash and wasn't effected. I saw people on the news that were at supermarkets, airports and other places were affected. Some people will be just waking up to this issue. I was able to log into my bank (not that I plan on buying anything tonight). Was thinking about a game on steam, but might wait a while and play something else.
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Quite coincidentally I was watching Terminator 3 when this news broke
 
CrowdStrike will likely be receiving a few lawsuits if they really did screw up an update. Perhaps someone didn't sandbox test this rigorously before making it go live. Very lax if so. It's the sort of screwup I've seen with the Agile development methodology, when QA are made redundant to save money and the customers became the testers.
 
Asbo Zaprudder said:
CrowdStrike will likely be receiving a few lawsuits if they really did screw up an update. Perhaps someone didn't sandbox test this rigorously before making it go live. Very lax if so. It's the sort of screwup I've seen with the Agile development methodology, when QA are made redundant to save money and the customers became the testers.
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Like almost every Windows update we are the beta testers /s
 
Oops just started a TNZ topic, because I didn't see this.

Crowdstrike is telling everyone to boot to safe mode and delete the update file, but a lot production servers use bitlocker, and the server hosting their bitlocker key is also BSoD'd, so most people are SOL for the moment.

I haven't tested it myself but maybe if you booted to a live USB (I would use Linux) and mounted the hard drive, you could make the deletion there?
 
It's been an interesting day for sure. I'm not in IT, but our people were running around.

I didn't get the BSOD, but the networking was problematic at best.
 
I seem to remember something just like that happened recently, like in January, but with Cloudfare, and any websites relying on it were down because of it, and because of an update gone wrong.
 
Disposable_Ensign said:
Oops just started a TNZ topic, because I didn't see this.

Crowdstrike is telling everyone to boot to safe mode and delete the update file, but a lot production servers use bitlocker, and the server hosting their bitlocker key is also BSoD'd, so most people are SOL for the moment.

I haven't tested it myself but maybe if you booted to a live USB (I would use Linux) and mounted the hard drive, you could make the deletion there?
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a) Linux doesn't have the ability to decrypt a bitlocker encrypted partition
b) You would need to know all the files, all the registry entries etc and in general you don't just delete updates from Windows you uninstall them because the ability fuck things up even further. Either crowdstrike screwed the pooch even further by saying to delete it rather than uninstall or the media is too dumb to understand things.
 
whoops - I was wrong - seems there's a single file you can nuke to break the update issue or you can reboot 15 times.

www.404media.co

To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says

The advice, which is specifically for virtual machines using Azure, shows that sometimes the solution to a catastrophic failure is turn it off and on again. And again.
www.404media.co www.404media.co

though it's another reminder of how brain dead the decision to remove the ability to boot into safe mode was.
 
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