:purple_heart: Hugops to everyone involved in dealing with the global outage related to Microsoft/Crowdstrike. Microsoft IT outage latest - Windows glitch sparks global chaos as airlines, banks and Sky News go down Thanks for already sharing the following, @ipstefan : [image] Soft…

Y2K has arrived? :melting_face: This is basically what we were all worried about with Y2K, except it’s actually happened this time ! :skull_and_crossbones: — Troy Hunt

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A helpful unbiased high-level summary so far from Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/technology/global-cyber-outage-grounds-flights-hits-media-financial-telecoms-2024-07-19/

From @w4dd325 on the MoT Slack: From what I have read, CrowdStrike automatically sent out a faulty channel file. This has caused PC’s running Windows (mainly Win 10 I think) to get stuck in a boot loop / BSoD (Blue screen of death). There is a workaround to remove the faulty file (but if you have…

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:rotating_light: Cash only at the shops, don’t get caught out! [image] Daniel Compton @danielwithmusic Just finished up my first day at CrowdStrike. Got to push a quick fix to prod before logging off for the day. Looking forward to a long weekend! 7:05 AM - 19 Jul 2024 …

Struggling to find helpful updates on microsoft.com . Nothing on their news page and nothing on their LinkedIn page . And a keyword search for “Crowdstrike” on their help pages returns nothing relevant.

So we know that the BSOD occurred after a reboot of Windows that was done because the update of Crowdstrike required it. This meant at boot, Windows had a conflict with a Crowdstrike corrupted file or its contents. So to test it they just had to do the same. Or am I missing something? What Crowdst…

Mark Chadbourn (@chadbourn.bsky.social) Crowdstrike has lost a fifth of its value in pre-market trading in the US - a whopping $16 billion.

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