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I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.
All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.
I agree with everything Scott Hanselman writes in this post.
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#crowdstrike #microsoft #dei #softwaredevelopment
Scott Hanselman on LinkedIn: #crowdstrike | 452 comments
Context - someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEI hiring Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens… | 452 comments on LinkedInScott Hanselman (www.linkedin.com)
I thought being a programmer was a waste of effort, a thankless job that would never make a difference.
Then #CrowdStrike showed me that with a single line of code, I can make the world a better place.
Apocalypse
#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #glenda #openbsd #cirno #9front #fediart #mastoart #penguin #counter #crowdstrike
AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Channel 4 News, in talking about today's #Microsoft #CrowdStrike fuckup, stated that the expected Y2K effect was imaginary.
No! No! NO!
We* did a massive amount of work to update and ensure systems would keep on working. And more importantly WE TESTED EVERYTHING FULLY BEFORE GOING LIVE.
(* As in everyone responsable for operating computer systems around the world!)
This demonstrates a thing that I’m sure serious security pros (and their adversaries) have long known: These Windows security products are a highly attractive attack surface for serious professional Bad Guys. They run in God mode and are typically purchased by IT-management types via the “enterprise software sales” process. (Think: golf.)
I wonder how many of them are already deeply compromised? I am certain that the number is not zero.
#Crowdstrike #Windows #infosec
In an unexpected turn of events, a sensible take on #Crowdstrike from the Orange Site.
Source: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Hey fellow #Linux users, despite the #CrowdStrike problem only affecting #Windows, this is not a windows problem.
This is an "automatic update that got forced onto everyone with insufficient testing while also having way too many permissions" problem.
If you think big corps wouldn't run something similar on Linux, I have a an NFT of a bridge to sell you.
Make no mistake, if an outage similar to Crowdstrike would have been caused by OpenSource, there would be calls across the entire industry and at the government level to ban OpenSource from critical systems. But since it was caused by billion-dollar publicly-traded companies, nothing to see here, move-on.
Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike
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Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs
Oops, they did it again. Early this morning, McAfee released an update to its antivirus definitions for corporate customers that mistakenly deleted a crucial Windows XP file, sending systems into a reboot loop and requiring tedious manual repairs.Ed Bott (ZDNET)
Crowd Strike thing is basically an "Ever Given stuck in Suez Canal" of IT industry.
All the techies losing hair, sleep, and family time trying to get this un-stuck are the excavator operators trying to get things un-fucked.
Maximizing shareholder value by using tried-and-true industry-standard systems and services is going just great.
Let's see if "nobody ever got fired for choosing Windows" still holds a week from now.
Maybe rather than trying to shove AI and ads in every portion of Windows Microsoft should focus on not letting their cybersecurity partners take down computers and networks all over the world.
PSA: Some of y'all are getting confused by this...
The #Crowdstrike outage is affecting local (bare metal and VM) Windows servers and user machines running Crowdstrike globally.
All of the issues around the world right now aren't because O365/azure was down earlier yesterday. That was an unrelated issue with their cloud services; the Crowdstrike issue isn't an MS cloud service outage.
Fortunately not bit by this but it did make me curious
BBC is doing extraordinary coverage of the #outtage
The ticker is followed by special live reporting worldwide bbc.com/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et…
IT outage live updates: Planes grounded as mass worldwide issue hits airlines, media and banks
The cause of the outage is unclear, but American Airlines tells the BBC its flights are not taking off due to an issue with Crowdstrike cybersecurity software.BBC News