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Cybersecurity update as knocked out multiple Microsoft users.

Has brought down airlines, banks, Sky News and worst of all Gail's cafe. Those poor Lib Dems
 
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I've come into work for a keep in touch day and I have a SHIRT on and everything. I want to make sure I get paid for today!
 
Aye, a few of our systems are just a bit fucked. OH WELL. Can't helped, time for a cuppa, chill, touch some grass etc.
 
Oh, fun wee thing on the BBC...

"There have been reports suggesting that a cybersecurity company called Crowdstrike, which produces antivirus software, issued a software update that has gone horribly wrong and is bricking Windows devices"
 
Sky News are back on air, in an empty studio, reading off bits of paper with no clips.
 
Just got an email saying the main software at work is down. Please close before I need to go in 🙏
 
This would usually be absolute disaster for me work wise and that would be my weekend written off….
However I’m 3 days into a 2 week holiday sipping cocktails. Gutted for my team though!
 
Lee said:
This would usually be absolute disaster for me work wise and that would be my weekend written off….
However I’m 3 days into a 2 week holiday sipping cocktails. Gutted for my team though!
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Same here. Was glad this morning to start reading is was related to CrowdStrike which we don't have. We have over 40k devices all remote and the fix is to manually boot into each one in safe mode and delete a file? LOL. Nice one.

Can have all the disaster recovery in the world but if you can't get into your endpoints then what's the point...
 
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Same here. Was glad this morning to start reading is was related to CrowdStrike which we don't have. We have over 40k devices all remote and the fix is to manually boot into each one in safe mode and delete a file? LOL. Nice one.

Can have all the disaster recovery in the world but if you can't get into your endpoints then what's the point...
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Ha I saw that fix, and thought of the thousands of people trying to talk maureen from accounts through execute some command lines in dos
 
It's wreaking minor havoc for my work across the country, so I'm having to get stuck into business continuation/recovery on a mobile with poor data coverage on a day off :D
 
PercyPig said:
Same here. Was glad this morning to start reading is was related to CrowdStrike which we don't have. We have over 40k devices all remote and the fix is to manually boot into each one in safe mode and delete a file? LOL. Nice one.

Can have all the disaster recovery in the world but if you can't get into your endpoints then what's the point...
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I’ve sent a few messages to my team and had no response so I assume we use it, or they’ve all clocked off for the weekend.
 
As disappointing as I am sure this is, I do take a slight joy at airport voxpops from gormless people whose trips to Tenerife has been ruined.
 
I’ve been at work 40 minutes and have done everything I needed to do that hasn’t been affected. I want to GO HOME.
 
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The reporting from journos is pretty poor as usual with most tech stories. Sky News just referred to Crowdstrike as a client of Microsoft

:/

But I guess you’re only as good as what you put in and if you interview this guy as “head of a technical” then you get shit back.

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I need this day to be over ASAP - these outages have made work so difficult.
 
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