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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 102 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here's the fix: (or rather workaround, released by CrowdStrike) 1)Boot to safe mode/recovery 2)Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike 3)Delete the file matching "C-00000291*.sys" 4)Boot the system normally

[-] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 45 points 3 months ago

I'm on a bridge still while we wait for Bitlocker recovery keys, so we can actually boot into safemode, but the Bitkocker key server is down as well...

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 28 points 3 months ago

Gonna be a nice test of proper backups and disaster recovery protocols for some organisations

[-] huginn@feddit.it 12 points 3 months ago

Chaos Monkey test

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