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Global IT outage disrupts airlines, banks, media, telecoms

aje.io Global IT outage causes chaos, disrupting airlines, banks, media, telecoms

Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator says it is aware of ‘large-scale technical outage’.

Global IT outage causes chaos, disrupting airlines, banks, media, telecoms

This is so fucking funny

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Yesterday I was dreading having to work an early morning flight.

Literally in the crew van right now making a u-turn heading back to the hotel. Thanks Microsoft!
I'm sorry bros, this is my fault. I tried to upload an image of a DPRK solider to a Microsoft server
not to dox myself, but i work at a company thats basically tech support for a load of banks etc. and it is fucking wonderful seeing all these billion dollar companies come crying to us and telling them that it sucks to suck and we can't do shit and immediately closing their help tickets lmao
yet somehow hexbear is still online?

CURIOUS.
- It would be hilarious if hexbear did go down and that’s how we learn it is an op
Interesting, I didn't notice 💅

Have they tried not using hyper-centralized cloud-based services or proprietary corpo operating systems?
Can confirm, in the hospitality industry. Had issues with the credit card machines and just got a call from an airline saying they needed to delay departures for guests.

Maybe, and just hear me out: having the entire world rely on shit like this isn't... a good idea. It's definitely laughable at this point.

edit: there's a joke somewhere that the PCs are going on (crowd)strike. Someone cleverer than me, please articulate it.
- going on (crowd)strike :kelly:
Half my company is shut down. Laptops crash into blue screens after bios post and probably need to be wiped. Gotta love Microsoft. Exceptional customer service.
- Apparently it's not Microsoft but some antivirus crapware called CrowdStrike.
  
  2 weeks ago CrowdStrike was just permanently taking up 30% of my CPU and kept my laptop running on maximum fan power. Apparently also due to a faulty update. Holy fuck, what is that company doing. And why is apparently everywhere?
- Microsoft goes anprim, crashes billions of computers worldwide
  
  billions must bootloop
I’m making a list of notable outages here, in the news megathread if anybody wants to laugh. Or cry, if you work in IT

Anyway, never push prod on Friday lol

¯\ (ツ)/¯
- Anyway, never push prod on Friday lol
  
  All these dorks gotta work on the weekend now. Oopsie.
I was just about to post this once again the Owl is a better poster than all of us
- you were busy guarding skingrad
  
  The guilds
  
  Communist Party HQ
  
  are inside the north walls, to the west.
- I'm just hootn over here
Is this why the computers at my work aren't working????

Edit: yeah it is and im fucked
- Boot in safe mode
  
  Go to Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike
  
  Delete "C-00000291.sys"
  
  Edit: Repeat manually for every computer on the system
  
  For some reason IT at my work either can't do that or are taking a really long time to
  
  I don't have access to do that on my work computer for myself though :/
~~Lol, thank you based god that this shit happened on my days off!~~

~~I know I'll walk into a shit storm on Monday but I don't care. I'm maxing and relaxing now~~

EDIT:

GODDAMN IT!

Here I was shit talking, and my boss just called me and asked me to come in. Yes, I work in desktop support. Yes, I'm getting overtime for this. No, I am not happy!
- The trick is to always be unavailable on your days off and never answer your phone. Unless you want the overtime, of course.
  
  I needed the OT unfortunately.
  
  But not like this...
  
  also if you mistakenly answer the phone, switching to airplane mode drops the call
  
  oops you were traveling
- ~~Lol, it's~~ I'M fucked.
My fucking god. I picked up a co-workers shift this afternoon because she received a relatively minor injury but would prefer not to work, and I was thinking it would be a regular Friday afternoon.

Half the other cafes, restaurants and pubs in the vicinity lost their card payment systems and some even their ability to take cash (windows OS cash registers I guess??).

We got away from issues because our boss is cheap and has a cheaper point of sale system with a cheaper bank and a cheaper cash regjster that apparently never bought whatever Office/CrowdStrike thing that causes instant, looping BSODs and so we were operating as normal.

Imagine the amount of people that come in because our shit was working.

There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.
- There is a bit of humour that my particular small business tyrant boss being a stingy capitalist avoided the fallout of the large business tyrants being stingy capitalists.
  
  Don't celebrate so soon because your petty tyrant will never upgrade their system after seeing this shit lol
I feel like every IT professional was waiting for something like this eventually. Seeing the shitty infrastructure that supports even mega corporations makes you wonder how this doesn't happen more often.
- the world is built on a foundation of sand. it's amazing anything works at all
  
  I worked for a company who had cut their IT department so bad they could not fix a payments database that handled over $1 billion in transactions annually in a timely manner. The fix was a non-IT analytics team created their own database in Access to store it in instead
  
  And you are rewarded for doing stupid shit like that in corporate America instead of rightfully being told you are a fucking idiot.
I've been watching the ABC coverage. It's pretty minimal, they have no on screen graphics and can't play video. Started as the RNC coverage was ending. Bless em, they're doing their best.
- They had their first remote guest dropout! They've been covering this all arvo and that was the first. Still no on screen graphics but they did run video
The finale plot of Fight Club but instead of using bombs the Fight Club just sits back and drinks Natty Ice while the corporations cut tech budgets until accomplishing the same thing.
- Tyler Durden with a spherical beer belly
Guess I'll see how on-fire my job is tomorrow.
Linux penguins stay winning
Seeing shit like this makes me feel vindicated not going into IT work cause fuck id rather be shot than deal with this.

No doubt anyone with a brain was saying this could happen at any time but the “decision makers” had no interest in improving stuff cause what its working fine now and that costs money
is it possible that reinventing the mainframe and discarding decentralized computing was a bad idea?

no it is the graybeards who are wrong
My company is still up and running and i still have to work till midnight POG.
Crowdstuck
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- This isn't really decades unless it was a cyberattack. Which it probably wasn't. It's a big deal, yes, but it's not a major history altering moment.
  
  It's not going to alter history, but it's a sign of where history is going. This won't be the last time something like this happens.

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