Yep, just the normal ones though.

Hmmm, local items must be on an infected machine/server and they haven't noticed? 😬

We dodged a bullet.....  had a couple of our systems BSOD but bought those up with no further issues. Think we ended up with 2 workstations that won't stop BSOD and thats it. 

Update:  If you are signed-in to a service such as Stuff, log out and normal viewing should be re-established.

A few random comments on the outage - just my thoughts

1) Some off line websites (i.e Woolworths at the moment) have not even got any basic messages up to advise online customers.

2) The CEO of Cloudstrike used to be the CTO at McAfee

3) The more locked down end use PC's are, the slower the restoration (Woolworths still down, Foodstuffs got back very quickly)

4) Where staff are skilled and trusted, do not lock out the means by which they can recover using safe mode. Keep IS support local as far as possible.

msukiwi:

Reanalyse:.....I am relieved to see what services still work despite this massive issue.

Thankfully Geekzone is still up.

Batman:

 

msukiwi:

 

Reanalyse:

 

.....I am relieved to see what services still work despite this massive issue.

 

Thankfully Geekzone is still up.

 

But how? Curious.

 

Not hard. By not running CrowdStrike.

freitasm:

Batman: But how? Curious.

Not hard. By not running CrowdStrike.

Yes this is a Crowdstrike specific issue THIS time. 

Don't make the mistake of believing you not running crowdstrike, makes you entirely immune from such things. 

Vendors of all types push out updates all the time. This could happen with any vendor. MS have handed out updates many times which have broken functionality for millions of people. Defender is on millions and millions and millions of computers world wide. Defender had a major issue with an update it pushed out around 6 months ago that caused major issues. Not for everyone, and not to this level of outage, but it was wildly inconvenient. 

networkn:

 

Yes this is a Crowdstrike specific issue THIS time. 

 

Don't make the mistake of believing you not running crowdstrike, makes you entirely immune from such things. 

 

Of course not. This happened before, with McAfee and ESET. 

It will happen again. It's just that the scale now and reliance on interconnected systems is much larger than 15 years ago.

The question seemed to be specific to this issue, not in general.

networkn:

 

Yes this is a Crowdstrike specific issue THIS time. 

 

Don't make the mistake of believing you not running crowdstrike, makes you entirely immune from such things. 

 

Vendors of all types push out updates all the time. This could happen with any vendor. MS have handed out updates many times which have broken functionality for millions of people. Defender is on millions and millions and millions of computers world wide. Defender had a major issue with an update it pushed out around 6 months ago that caused major issues. Not for everyone, and not to this level of outage, but it was wildly inconvenient. 

 

This is exactly the reason I avoid automatic updates and only very selectively allow minimal others after waiting a decent time to make sure they aren't going to kill something important. So far it has worked for me. 

Reanalyse:

 

Foodstuffs got back very quickly

 

 

I would guess that's because they also don't use Crowdstrike?

Rikkitic:

 

This is exactly the reason I avoid automatic updates and only very selectively allow minimal others after waiting a decent time to make sure they aren't going to kill something important. So far it has worked for me. 

 

This wouldn't have saved you in the slightest in this situation.