moochedit
Mr Mooched It
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Massive worldwide IT outage, hitting banks, airlines, supermarkets, broadcasters, etc. [19th July 2024]
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moochedit
Mr Mooched It
Yeah this jokes getting very oldIn Nairobi?
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
More serious problems.
moochedit
Mr Mooched It
No one is watching sky news atm (not a great loss)
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Complete lack of empathy for people who watch Sky News
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
No. That’s not how it works. It’s down to the vendor making the anti virus software to test the patch against standard configurations of operating system before release.
Not all Microsoft customers are affected. Just the ones using Crowdstrike.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
My trains were fine, unusually efficient in fact 
and everything at my work also seems fine. The IT guys behind me are sniggering and cracking wise in a nerd-like fashion.
and everything at my work also seems fine. The IT guys behind me are sniggering and cracking wise in a nerd-like fashion.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Sorry, I didn't see krtek a houby's post. In my defence, the Internet's a bit fucked.Yeah this jokes getting very old
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Although the fix mentioned in The Register article is pretty simple; removing the CrowdStrike agent file, for most corporate Windows machines which are locked down tightly with Bitlocker etc, this is pretty much impossible to implement - users can't do it as they can't boot to safe mode, they can't boot from another device, and the update can't be pushed out from the central service because the machines won't boot.
Well that's a terrible model then. HSBC or whoever have been affected sign their contract with Microsoft, not Crowdstrike. Lawyers will be rubbing their hands I would think.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
No empathy for people needing blood tests or taking flights?
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
They definitely have a contract with crowdstike.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Hospitals cancelling operations, GPs and pharmacies unable to access their systems, airlines grounding planes, bank payment systems going down, etc., etc.
Yeah, nothing to see here, move along.
moochedit
Mr Mooched It
Yep urban is randomly putting users posts in the wrong thread
when is this madness going to end? 
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Depending on where in the supply chain and for how long, could this potentially fuck up prescriptions for quite some time?
There's been an ongoing global shortage of my meds for ages even without various systems going down, so have to assume this could have some impact there.
Who, the end client? Crowdstrike is buried within Windows. They can reasonably expect Microsoft to test anything rolled out to them I would have thought as part of their contract.
moochedit
Mr Mooched It
If they have problems it's because they use crowdstrike as their anti virus so they will have a contract with them.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
ordinary people who watch Sky News
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
That’s now how it works please just stop
Well the BBC's tech correspondent would beg to differ
Callie
Pivoting
Is that happening?
souljacker
innit
He's wrong. It does happen. It's the BBC.
moochedit
Mr Mooched It
Our windows pc's at my work are working fine. That's because we don't use crowdstrike as our anti virus. Geddit?
It's a third party application you install not part of windows itself.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
No idea, but I have head of someone working in a pharmacy being unable to dispense prescriptions
Edit - See that was already mentioned
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
The same BBC who interviewed a job candidate thinking he was a security expert?
It's been 15 years since best worst case of mistaken identity on BBC News
His face upon realising he was on TV is one we'll never forget.
metro.co.uk
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
The Schleswig-Holstein university hospital in the north of the country cancelled all planned operations in Kiel and Lübeck due to the disruptions,
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Good for him, this is my day job.
You buy your OS from MS and you are reliant on buying the software for antivirus from whatever vendor supplies it. MS has no obligation to test the software for you, that’s the vendors role.
CS does not appear to be bundled with windows defender and is just one of many security products like Fortinet that can be plugged into the windows and 365 landscape
My org is currently fine btw.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Certainly hospitals in Germany are reported to be cancelling non-urgent operations.
The way this story is breaking, something like that happens in one country, then reports start coming in from other countries having the same problem.
It is the biggest and most widespread IT outage ever seen across the world.
But, according to teuchter everything in his world is fine, so that's OK then.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Bricked doesn't mean dead, it just means it's not responsive right now. They all just need to be restarted and a fix applied. It could take a long time for some orgs though, manually fixing tens of thousands of PCs is not a quick job.
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