CrowdStrike crashing computers worldwide
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Don't F with the Windows kernel is the @Moral of the story here. Nothing sinister IMO. It's actually the good guys making a mistake and looking like the bad guys.
I’m a semi retired systems engineer, but all the stress related to this IT glitch is too much. I’m taking a mental health sick day. See you Monday.
I’m glad to read it wasn’t a cyber attack by one of Trump’s friends.
And, if your IT department is dyslexic and has botlicker on, you have even BIGGER problems....
It’s honestly scary how many don’t. Too many software guys with the “iterative development” strategy.
I have some clients with 5 NON-PROD environments.
My daughter, my sister and my sister in law are always playing this silly text game about building our survival supplies and what we have in our family “stash”. My sister had ammo made by this retired gun hobbyist privately so she’s not on some record somewhere that “the authorities” can access.I can only imagine. Some day, when all this crap goes down world wide, me with a safe full of guns, a mod'd Jeep, and a folding map won't look so stupid.
Yeah, she’s a little obsessed. 😏
Cyber insurance won't cover an employee mistake. Heck most of they time they'll work their hardest to not cover a cyber attack also.
Not an update to the Windows OS. This was an update to the CrowdStrike Falcon software that runs on Windows OS. The fix removes a CrowdStrike file from a CrowdStrike directory. Microsoft's only fault in this is that they built an OS that allows other companies to take it down.(I hate defending Microsoft)
On WallStreetBets, a person posted a long rant about how CrowdStrike was significantly overvalued, less than 12 hours before all of this went down. The comments on it are a pretty good read as everyone rips into him to start with before calling him a genius.
I saw a good comment elsewhere that I'll paraphrase. Crowdstrike managed to get the government and many of the largest companies in the world to pay them for doing the damage to the free world that Russia, Iran, and North Korea could only hope to do.
If like to say this just showed some of these hacker nuts something new to exploit but honestly I think they already know it.
Everyone has at least one test environment. Only a select few can afford to have a true production environment. I guess CrowdStrike wasn't one of those.
I still keep a Rand McNally Road Atlas in the car that I replace every few years, even though I haven't opened one in at least 15 years.I can only imagine. Some day, when all this crap goes down world wide, me with a safe full of guns, a mod'd Jeep, and a folding map won't look so stupid.
I can only imagine. Some day, when all this crap goes down world wide, me with a safe full of guns, a mod'd Jeep, and a folding map won't look so stupid.
What do the mods do? Bypass the vehicle's "operating system"?
Early weekend I guess, I can't imagine that our IT Department is going to get this fixed today. Looks like the Cubs play this afternoon
Me too. Plus I have an ability to find my way around with a good sense of direction- and if I’ve been somewhere once I recall how to get back there and to find my way.
I get a kick out of that Geico ad showing the couple who ended up sitting in a desolate spot after following their GPS into the desert.
Scary!
Seems like it's a universal fix. You've got to go in through file explorer and delete one file, then restart. Once they put together the instructional email, you'll have to resume your workday.
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