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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13848 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21212 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21212 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13848 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Prepare for a rocky ride- looks like there's a big internet meltdown in progress- reports of network issues here in Australia for multiple major businesses, and also reports from overseas of network issues developing. Another backbone botched software update? Edit- Reports of Supermarket checkouts down, flight check-ins down. The ABC, SBS & Sky media have all had systems affected. ABC video editing systems are down, but live broadcasting is still occurring. Reports of all NSW government departments being affected, including police & fire services. Universities, law firms, Bunnings, blood donation services, banks and supermarkets are among the places have been reported as experiencing outages. My super fund, Australian Super is reporting issues- account login isn't possible. Their web site is slower than a week of wet Sundays. Maybe this is the cause of this one- There's lots of discussion online about the possible cause of the outage.So if they're not using Azure, they're OK. If they are, then they (and you) are screwed till they undo whatever they did to stuff things up. Could be a cascading issue- supposedly the initial Central US problem has been resolved, but other regions are now having Azure go down in a screaming heap. Grant Darwin NT |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21212 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
I’m in the middle of the United States and internet service is a bit slow lately. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13848 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
This is looking ugly- now being reported as due to an issue with Crowdstrike Falcon "Crowdstrike is a global cyber security company who provide detection and monitoring tools to cyber and IT teams. Found this on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195 > Summary And these 17min ago We have ~50 thousand laptops in reboot loop and ~1.5k servers as well. No resolution yet. Grant Darwin NT |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21212 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Sounds like a denial of service attack. I got a notification of one of my old accounts being compromised. It was photobucket. No loss there. I think we all stopped using it when it went pay for use years ago. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13848 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Multiple reports of a fix for an affected system- Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery EnvironmentApparently just renaming the CrowdStrike folder to something else allows you to re-boot normally. I feel for those with hundreds (and thousands) of affected systems. Grant Darwin NT |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13848 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Sounds like a denial of service attack.Worse than that- a broken software update for an enterprise anti-virus/ anti-malware programme. All well and good for systems that are booting from the network. But if the systems are booting from their own drive, i can't see any way of fixing things other than manually by booting each system into Safe Mode & editing the necessary file/folder. Maybe a batch file to help, but still- it's going to suck hugely (especially with Win11 systems). And the really brilliant part of this- the company has a Tech Alert post on the issue and how to fix it , but you have to have an account with them to log in to find out about it & what to do... Grant Darwin NT |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21212 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
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Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Worse than that- a broken software update for an enterprise anti-virus/ anti-malware programme.Just imagine what chaos would ensue if this happened after we are all relying on AI. Or if AI pushes the updates ... |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 30590 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Wishing you a Happy Virus-Free Friday, |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36644 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
A certain bank here (ANZ) has been advertising their "Falcon Technology" at a great rate of late, but I havn't seen 1 of those adds since yesterday. LOL Cheers. |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3805 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19376 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
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Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13848 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
So close- swap 1 & 3. Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36644 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
They certainly will be using a different context if they can't access their accounts today.A certain bank here (ANZ) has been advertising their "Falcon Technology" at a great rate of late...Oh, I think people are still saying that at a great rate today, just in a different context. ;^) Funnily enough I knew nothing about it until I got back home yesterday afternoon as my card worked fine paying my grocery bill across at the supermarket, at my bank's ATM to get money out and 2 taps at the supermarket in town (and 1 of those taps was for a mobile phone top up). Cheers. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13848 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Given what happened to cause this, it's hard to image a company as big as this one not testing things before deploying them. So the other option- a disgruntled employee? I've seen quite a few posts of people asking for a copy of the file that caused all the carnage, curious as to just what it did to bring the systems down. Grant Darwin NT |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13848 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Luckily my Superfund have got their systems back up and running again.They certainly will be using a different context if they can't access their accounts today.A certain bank here (ANZ) has been advertising their "Falcon Technology" at a great rate of late...Oh, I think people are still saying that at a great rate today, just in a different context. ;^) Even more luckily, my Credit Union wasn't affected at all. Grant Darwin NT |
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