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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. Is it safer to have a potentially exploitable agent running as root and listening on a port, than to not have EDR running on a well-secured low-churn enterprise OS - sit down, Ubuntu - adhering to best practice for least access and least-services and good role-sep?

It's a pickle. I'm gonna go with "maybe don't lock down your enterprise Linux hard and then open a yawning garage door of a hole right into it" but YMMV.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Reality is, if your users are educated, then your more secure than any edr with dumbass users. But we all know this is a pipe dream.