Crowdstrike Global IT SNAFU July 19, 2024
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Published 2024-07-19
No problems with Air Traffic Control.
""We have met the enemy, and he is us". Pogo
All Comments (21)
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The irony of the fact that the name of the company responsible for this mayhem is "Crowdstrike", is astounding.
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I didn't know Homer Simpson had moved from the nuclear power industry to the computer field.
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The problem with so many companies and industries around the world relying on the same product for their "cyber security".
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To err is human. To really F things up you need computers.
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We finally got to experience what everyone thought Y2K was going to be like.
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The CEO of CrowdStrike is George Kurtz. In 2010 he was CTO of McAfee when a virus database update wiped out svchost.exe on Windows XP PCs, causing blue screens all over the world. That incident, according to Wikipedia, is what inspired him to leave McAfee and found CrowdStrike.
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We had servers running Crowdstrike at work. Luckily no workstations, so it was an impact that we could cope with. I feel sorry for all corporations that had Crowdstrike everywhere. Some rumor allegedly from Microsoft says that rebooting your computer 15 times will solve the problem.
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Greetings all. I worked in IT security infrastructure for decades. The industry has been replacing human analysis from the equation for a while now with cloud based technology (now marketed as 'AI' enabled for an investment sound bite). It all started with overseas outsourcing. It was bad crossing the communication divide with language but trust in 'AI' is absolute rubbish. This level of fail should never be possible no matter the excuse...well intentioned, accidental or malicious.
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Crowdstrike hit, it is very effectiv!
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Society is so damn vulnerable. The tech geniuses have built a tower of cards
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I took off this morning at 5am - CE525. Radio was quiet, and I got direct destination once turned over to center. Nice.
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The major gas station chain in our area(Speedway) uses Crowdstrike in their system too so I had to drive all over town looking for a station that was actually open; the one that was had raised their prices by a good 10 cents and there was a huge line. This really demonstrates how easily it could be to cripple the computer backbone that runs the world in 2024.
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"...they brought me in here to do a job, they asked me to stir the damn tanks and I stirred the tanks!"
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2:06 we have a term for this in the IT. We call this "Friday afternoon patch" :) But great to hear that Crowdstrike also subscribes to the idea to "I don't care about testing, just ship it!".
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No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
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I flew Delta from LAX to Charleston, yesterday, with a layover in Atlanta. Got to CHS at midnight, but my bags didn't make it. At Atlanta I saw a line with what seemed like 1000 people in it. Didn't pay much attention, and carried on to my flight. Found out this morning about the outage. Just my luck. I was also stranded in Manchester, England the morning of the Continental/United merge. Their systems were down from that and had to stay an extra day.
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Airport is still a mess here in Philadelphia
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Crowd STRIKE is a great name for their company apparently.
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My facility has had a handful of false-alarm deluge system activations over a few decades, causing millions of dollars of damage to aircraft and ground equipment. In that time there have been no hangar fires. Our mitigations are sometimes more hazardous than the hazards themselves.
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CROWDSTRIKE - "Let's push the patch straight into production without testing on a Thursday night (fixed) to a hundred thousand systems. " Great plan!
