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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      This is fine as long as you politely ask everyone on the Internet to slow down and stop exploiting new vulnerabilities.

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        I think vulnerabilities found count as “something broken” and chap you replied to simply did not think that far ahead hahah

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          For real - A cyber security company should basically always be pushing out updates.

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            Exactly. You don’t know what the vulnerabilities are, but the vendors pushing out updates typically do. So stay on top of updates to limit the attack surface.

            Major releases can wait, security updates should be pushed as soon as they can be proven to not break prod.

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            always pushing out updates

            Notes: Version bump: Eric is a twat so I removed his name from the listed coder team members on the about window.

            git push --force

            leans back in chair productive day, productive day indeed

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      This is AV, and even possible that it is part of definitions (for example some windows file deleted as false positive). You update those daily.