- A global Microsoft Windows outage, caused by a CrowdStrike software update, has disrupted airlines, banking services, and 911 lines, leading to grounded flights and long queues.
- The issue resulted in many systems experiencing the “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), affecting major carriers and airports worldwide, and also impacted the London Stock Exchange and Australian banking systems.
- CrowdStrike has identified and isolated the defect, deploying a fix, but recovery is expected to be slow due to the need for manual intervention on affected devices.
Cmon guys, it’s Crowdstrike implementing the 4 day week.
n3cr0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And that’s why the IT dept needs to test all software updates before rolling them out on the productive systems.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, a lot of people are (understandably) mad at Crowdstrike right now, but I want to drag some c-suite executives into a conference room and impress upon them the value of allocating budget for test environments and disaster recovery. Banks, airlines, service providers, these aren’t mom-and-pop bakeries and plumbers who don’t have time for all that nonsense. Every service that went down should be looking for the fuckwit in their organization. Anyone can make a mistake, but it takes dedication to systematically ignore the best advice of top experts in the field and run your infrastructure on a shoestring budget.
teft@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IT is just a cost center to most executives.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Man, money for a test environment is pretty low on my list of priorities right now. I’m trying to row a 20 man boat with one other person.
elvith@feddit.org 1 month ago
I mean, they do have a test environment. Everyone does have one!
They’re just missing a separated production environment…
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The CTO of Clownstrike presided over a similar disaster in 2010 too. AFAIK.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nah real men commit straight to prod. Why yes, I do have 13 bastard children, condoms are also for cowards
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Guys…this is TOTALLY Rick. He’s just avoiding his child support payments.
praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
afaik It wasn’t a software update that we all think. It was a content update that you can’t even delay update(I’m assuming it’s fordidentifying new viruses…etc). Updating software itself can be delayed and was usually being tested by IT guys before doing so. Content update however seemed harmless and wasn’t the case.
Crowdstrike fucked up. There seems to be nothing mucy IT depts could’ve done.
Ok_imagination@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If they’re as slow to roll out the updates to CS as they are the rest of the updates we’ll be a year behind on CS updates haha.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Been awhile since we’ve POCed Crowdstrike, but I don’t think you can set the cadence on updates for Crowdstrike. I believe Crowdstrike enforces auto-updates, pretty sure that’s at least the default setting.