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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This isn't really a Windows vs Linux issue as far as I'm aware. It was a bad driver update made by a third party. I don't see why Linux couldn't suffer from the same kind of issue.

We should dunk on Windows for Windows specific flaws. Like how Windows won't let me reinstall a corrupted Windows Store library file because admins can't be trusted to manage Microsoft components on their own machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am no expert. But afaik drivers normally are integrated into the kernel and intensively tested by several parties before getting onto your computer. Only for proprietary drivers this would be problematic under Linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Crowdstrike by default loads its own kernel modules on linux as well, not much different from how it works under Windows.