Services around the world seem to be affected. Reports of chaos at airports and hospitals emerge.
Early reports suggest that cyber security firm CrowdStrike may be to blame by pushing out a security update for its product that features a bug.
I hate Windows as much as the next Lemmy user but it takes 8 paragraphs before this gets clarified.
Article must be old too
Crowdstrike already rolled out an update, it’s just everything that’s already BSOD is going to take a while to be manually rolled back
An additional problem is bitlocked devices that can’t get access to their own disc to fix the problem. And in some cases, the key servers are even down as well. It’s a huge mess.
Definitely not what you want to hear as an IT worker on a Friday.
At least it being Friday will be a blessing in some cases since it means for some sectors that IT will have the weekend to fix it during non-business hours.
Long weekend ahead, that’s for sure
The article rn is all over the place alternating between saying the fix will take a long time to come and saying the fix already has been deployed, lol
The irony of this whole situation is astounding.
Tries to prevent bad actors sabotaging corporate computer systems; is bad actor sabotaging corporate computer systems.
Which is why there’s gotta be a better way to monitor and secure than installing 3rd party root level software on systems.
It’s so bad out there right now, that this is the “correct” way. The issue comes when that software isn’t treated like the root level suite it is by its vendor.
An estimated 37 percent of gunshot injuries in the U.S. are the result of accidental shootings. https://www.thetrace.org/2022/12/accidental-shootings-cdc-data-children/
Thing that is supposed to protect people from bad circumstance causes bad circumstance.
You cannot hack a server that’s down. Security first!
Crowd Strike really living up to its name
