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Well what a Palava, Microsoft has done what Hundreds of hackers have failed to do, bring international networks to their knees, well done!
 


Working in New Zealand....

The 386DX25 is updating the main Debian apt archive servers fine.
 
Working in Australia
 
Working in Australia
fro m ABC Au
There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally, potentially one of the biggest global outages ever experienced.

The ABC is experiencing a major network outage, along with several other media outlets.

from BBC UK

The US state of Alaska has warned its emergency services are affected, while several of the country's airlines have grounded their flights around the globe.
Australia - which has been particularly hard hit - has seen broadcast networks scrambling on air as systems failed and supermarkets crippled. Sky News UK went completely off air as a result of the issues.
The cause of the outage is unclear, but many of those impacted have linked it to Microsoft PC operating systems.
An official Microsoft 365 service update posted to X earlier in the day said " we're investigating an issue impacting users ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services".
However, a Microsoft spokesperson told the BBC on Friday that "the majority of services were recovered" hours earlier.

it won't directly affect most of us, unless we try accessing sites from effected servers [or use some windows products]
 

The CEO of StickmanCyber Ajay Unni says his team is working into Friday night to help its clients resolve the CrowdStrike glitch that has sent millions of computers operating Windows into the blue screen of death across the world.
"They have found a way to fix the issue," he says.
"In technical terms, the file is called a channel file, which needs to be deleted, they have provided step by step instructions on how that file has to be deleted."
However, given that the fault has pulled many systems offline and into the blue screen of death, the fix may be laborious and time-consuming for overstretched IT support teams.
"If the systems are online, it can be deleted remotely by IT support," Mr Unni explains.
"If the system is offline then you'll have to get on a phone call with your IT support who will walk you through step by step instruction to do it manually.
"There's a reboot mechanism for systems which are gone offline and someone has to be next to the computer to follow instructions on how to reboot the system. And there is a function called safe module — you boot the system in safe mode and then follow the instructions from IT on how to delete or how to resolve that particular issue, delete the file and then come back online. Unfortunately, as of now, I don't think they have found a way to remotely fix this issue without manual intervention.
"If the system is online, it's a little bit more easier, but we're still not clear whether you can fix the issue in a mass manner across all systems."
Given it's a Friday evening in Australia, many IT workers are set to have their weekends ruined, while organisations using CrowdStrike without access to IT support over the weekend may be offline for days.
"The short answer is, it may take a number of hours, even days, [before systems all come back online].
"Especially it's a Friday afternoon. People have gone home and gone away for the weekend. If you don't have resources, then this could take a very long time to fix and come back to business as usual."
Mr Unni urged individuals without IT expertise not to try and resolve the issue by themselves in case they accidentally delete the wrong file in the process and cause other problems.
 
Latest from BBC UK [I like the last line

Blue Screen of Death reported worldwide. You probably don’t need me to tell you what that is. Microsoft was quick to say it was a “third-party issue” – in other words, not its fault. Apple and Linux users, unaffected, rejoiced.
 
CrowdStrike frenzie on TV news this morning didn't concern me: i run Linux, in multiple flavours.
 
There were two unrelated incidents.. Microsoft Azure had a major outage in their centralus region. 2 of the 3 availability zones were down after a configuration change blocked storage for all VMs, etc.. that was from about 18:30-22:00 EDC last night.

My employer has most of their operation running in westus/centralus/eastus and we were able to failover most things, but multi-zone databases with geo-redundant backups weren't able to reach the 'geo' backups in other regions which was a major fail.

Then, crowdstrike put out an update that killed machines running Windows.

DNS teams everywhere are celebrating IT WAS NOT DNS!!! lol
 
In my opinion, this smells a lot like a hack against the security company in question (even if everyone says it wasn't). A bug like this must have been noticed in the lab during beta testing of the patch, right?
No they use end users for testing. It#s been like that for decades,,,,,

Just in-It was Iraq!
 
Has anyone else noticed the similarity between the words "outage" and "outrage"?
 
Okay there is an outage where I live in some areas and certain businesses mainly at the airports which is a normal occurrence.
 
In my opinion, this smells a lot like a hack against the security company in question (even if everyone says it wasn't). A bug like this must have been noticed in the lab during beta testing of the patch, right?
Very possible although too early to say (if at all with certainty).
 
Several years ago when we moved to EDR solutions, we considered CloudStrike and then even offered a massive discount over there MSRP to match who we ended up going with. (Comodo's EDR)

The main reason I didn't go with them where for:
  1. They were extremely brash. Almost school yard bully like the way they talked about themselves
  2. I was sure, our renewal was going to be far more expensive, they just wanted to get us on board. Comodo's was at a far better price
  3. They were overselling their product and making garbage claims like telling us we would have a dedicated person watching our logs (MDR) 24/7. (not possible) They use tools to alert them just like we do.
I expected at some point, they would get a wakeup call, but I certainly didn't expect something as epic as what happened. That's like a few years ago when Centurylink broke the Internet for four hours due to someone pushing a fat-fingered BGP config out and then leaving for the day without verifying their change. lololol
 
This was sent to me, strangely I always thought Australia was part of the world but I just found out that it is not.
 

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