Networked Outage worldwide

I just saw that on the BBC website, even GP's and pharmacies have been affected.

GPs, pharmacies and airports in UK affected by IT outage

Some GP practices are struggling to access their records systems, which include online bookings.

bbc.com

This is why some banks have maintenance mode, to ensure that all updates don't affect the normal running of the business the next day. I don't know why hospitals and airports do the same. There are hours where there are less people are in urgent need for a hospital and airports do close for business in the wee hours

They really should be testing these updates before they're even released. The amount of carnage this is doing, is in nightmare proportions. And our over reliance on digital exchange and usage needs to be kept in check

They've identified the file that's causing the problem

Servers down after CrowdStrike update — How it happened and how to fix

An update to CrowdStrike Falcon has caused servers to BSOD

www.techradar.com

My missus was on the phone to her insurance company today and was told their system was down. I had a look at Ezeiza arrivals and departures which showed they didn't seem to be too badly affected.

Just got in from Chile. No major delays down this way but apparently Aeroparque was a bit chaotic this morning.

Our big problem was that my taxi driver's elderly aunt fell in the shower , so he was half an hour late

Crowdstrike's shares were tumbling days before the event, is this really done on purpose?

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/crwd

Apparently, its also happened to Linux distros, so not confined to Windows operating system

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed

CrowdStrike recently caused a widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs, disrupting various sectors. However, this was not an isolated…

www.neowin.net

I don't know what method to do a full recovery on Linux, because some Linux users are so idiotic to think that things like this won't ever happen to Linux

I read that rebooting Windows 15 times does the trick.

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Apparently, its also happened to Linux distros, so not confined to Windows operating system

https://www.neowin.net/news/crowdstri…no-one-noticed/

I don't know what method to do a full recovery on Linux, because some Linux users are so idiotic to think that things like this won't ever happen to Linux

Just found out that booting into single user mode does the trick with Linux

I had an argument on FB, who obviously was a troll and didn't know fuck all about tech, claiming that Linux didn't suffer from anything....oh boy, these Linux fanboys can't handle the truth

Maybe we should all go back to Windows 3.1.. I miss those dial up noises from the modems

Airline avoids CrowdStrike chaos because its systems run on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95

Southwest Airlines systems run on Windows 3.1 - a version of Microsoft's operating system from 1992. And because of that, it was unaffected by CrowdStrike.

www.tweaktown.com

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Maybe we should all go back to Windows 3.1.. I miss those dial up noises from the modems

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/99459/air…d-95/index.html

I still run Windows 3.1 through DOSBox