Crowdstrike outage

[sparky]

It's definitely an issue to do with the Crowdstrike Falcon update.

You can reboot manually in the safe mode to remove the blue screen of death and take away the update, but not every organisation will be a position to do that.

[Frank]

[NTA]

@Frank Microsoft down 2.8% as well

[sparky]

[Bones]

@sparky said in Crowdstrike outage:

Gail's bakery in the UK is unable to take cash payments.

That sounds a tad backwards?

[NTA]

@sparky said in Crowdstrike outage:

My wife's work PC is going through a BSOD loop but can't access safe mode without the BitLocker key. Lol.

This is why I don't allow automatic updates.

[sparky]

Lots and lots of media organisations are reporting problems with their systems.

[booboo]

I am reading lots of words that don't seem to make coherent sentences.

[Machpants]

@booboo said in Crowdstrike outage:

I am reading lots of words that don't seem to make coherent sentences.

A security software firm released software that fucks computers. Lots of computers fucked.

I hope you don't have shares in Crowdstrike

[nzzp]

@booboo said in Crowdstrike outage:

I am reading lots of words that don't seem to make coherent sentences.

To quote Davy: SPEAK ENGLISH

[canefan]

I've never heard of crowd strike. I hope that means my work PC network hasn't heard of it either....

[sparky]

Crowdstike's CEO admitting it is them but no apology.

[Machpants]

@sparky said in Crowdstrike outage:

Crowdstike's CEO admitting it is them but no apology.

No matter what he says, the company is gone. So yeah, why bother haha

[gt12]

@NTA said in Crowdstrike outage:

@sparky said in Crowdstrike outage:

My wife's work PC is going through a BSOD loop but can't access safe mode without the BitLocker key. Lol.

This is why I don't allow automatic updates.

This was hilarious as my wife shit herself thinking she has fucked her work pc, then as she was messaging her boss their work chat exploded.

[Nevorian]

[Nevorian]

As long as the Rugby is on tomorrow…….

[canefan]

ASB is back online, so things are happening...

[Kruse]

What self-respecting BANK runs critical systems on Windows servers? WTAF?

[Machpants]

@Kruse said in Crowdstrike outage:

What self-respecting BANK runs critical systems on Windows servers? WTAF?

Most of them, by the look

[NTA]

@Kruse said in Crowdstrike outage:

What self-respecting BANK runs critical systems on Windows servers? WTAF?

Depends what they're doing with their development capabilities and environment management.

For the customer-facing side the deployment is baked in. Software updates are easy - in this case too easy - and you have a widespread and familiar OS that is low-cost compared to alternatives (nobody can seriously suggest Mac OS would be viable in financial terms for fleet).

Once you do that, the path to Windows Server - particularly cloud integration with Azure - is fairly easy.

And let's remember that even if the Servers weren't running the back end, a front end that can't serve customers isn't worth much. That's where the work is: redploying software manually to thousands of Windows PCs and middleware that delivers the critical info to UI.

A lot of financial institutions were still running mainframes until the early 2000s and the ability to support that was eroding. So they had to do something. At the same time, MS uplifted their cloud capabilities because they wanted a cut of Amazon's lunch.

A lot of ATMs are still running XPe because updating them is not was not cost effective.

We could go back to Terminals, but most of the guys who wrote the software are dead