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

[Jrandombob]

Probably, but better to be safe than sorry ;)

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 10:52 PM J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net>
wrote:

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> On Jul 21, 2024, at 03:50, Jrandombob <jrandombob at darkglade.com> wrote:
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> 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 ;)
>
>
> That's way too much credit to give to a CTO!
>
> 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?
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>> Crowdstrike pushed a bad update which sends windows machine into a BSOD
>> loop
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>> 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
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>> On Fri, 19 July 2024, 6:10 pm Luke Thompson, <luke.t at tnc.works> wrote:
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>> G'day,
>>
>> Just curious about what's amiss, a few things lined up this arvo:
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>> 1. Banks advising that there is an outage impacting payments etc.
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>> 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:
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>> 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?
>>
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>> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crowdstrike-microsoft-banks-airlines-australia/104119960
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>> Cheers,
>> Luke
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>>
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