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This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.

Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)

Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.

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[-] aard@kyu.de 184 points 3 months ago

The annoying aspect from somebody with decades of IT experience is - what should happen is that crowdstrike gets sued into oblivion, and people responsible for buying that shit should have an epihpany and properly look at how they are doing their infra.

But will happen is that they'll just buy a new crwodstrike product that promises to mitigate the fallout of them fucking up again.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 93 points 3 months ago

decades of IT experience

Do any changes - especially upgrades - on local test environments before applying them in production?

The scary bit is what most in the industry already know: critical systems are held on with duct tape and maintained by juniors 'cos they're the cheapest Big Money can find. And even if not, There's no time. or It's too expensive. are probably the most common answers a PowerPoint manager will give to a serious technical issue being raised.

The Earth will keep turning.

[-] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately falcon self updates. And it will not work properly if you don't let it do it.

Also add "customer has rejected the maintenance window" to your list.

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 months ago

Turns out it doesn't work properly if you do let it

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Well, "don't have self-upgrading shit on your production environment" also applies.

As in "if you brought something like this, there's a problem with you".

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