[AusNOG] Global Outage - CrowdStrike? What's the story?

[Jrandombob]

At this juncture I'd like to humbly suggest that between this incident and
the similar 2010 cockup he presided over as CTO of McAfee (botched defs
that caused it to delete Windows XP svchost.exe), that Mr George Kurtz
should strongly consider divesting himself of CrowdStrike and refraining
from any further involvement with EDR (or similar) vendors in future, for
the good of the industry, and the world at large ;)

On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 6:36 PM Tony Wicks <tony at wicks.co.nz> wrote:

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> https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue
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> *From:* AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> *On Behalf Of *DaZZa
> *Sent:* Friday, July 19, 2024 8:22 PM
> *To:* Luke Thompson <luke.t at tnc.works>
> *Cc:* AusNOG <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Global Outage - CrowdStrike? What's the story?
>
>
>
> Crowdstrike pushed a bad update which sends windows machine into a BSOD
> loop
>
> So far, the only way of fixing it is to manually boot *every* effected
> machine into safe mode and delete the offending file.
>
> It's broken banks, airports, TV playout systems, ServiceNSW was completely
> unable to service anything - and it's world wide *anywhere* Crowdstrike is
> used on windows - servers or workstations.
>
> It's going to be an ugly weekend for any org who uses it!
>
> D
>
>
>
> On Fri, 19 July 2024, 6:10 pm Luke Thompson, <luke.t at tnc.works> wrote:
>
> G'day,
>
> Just curious about what's amiss, a few things lined up this arvo:
>
> 1. Banks advising that there is an outage impacting payments etc.
>
> 2. Telstra MVNO Support advising that they have no internet right now.
>
> 3. There is a spike of problems reported on Down Detector, now calming:
>
> https://downdetector.com.au/ (Google to AWS to CBA/NAB, Xero, Uber,
> NBN...)
>
> Wondering if anyone can share any insights into what's happening this
> afternoon BTS or otherwise?
>
>
> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crowdstrike-microsoft-banks-airlines-australia/104119960
>
> Cheers,
> Luke
>
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