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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…
Ironic. They did what they are there to protect against. Fucking up everyone’s shit
Maybe centralizing everything onto one company’s shoulders wasn’t such a great idea after all…
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Crowdstrike is not a monopoly. The problem here was having a single point of failure, using a piece of software that can access the kernel and autoupdate running on every machine in the organization.
At the very least, you should stagger updates. Any change done to a business critical server should be validated first. Automatic updates are a bad idea.
Obviously, crowdstrike messed up, but so did IT departments in every organization that allowed this to happen.
You wildly underestimate most corporate IT security’s obsession with pushing updates to products like this as soon as they release. They also often have the power to make such nonsense the law of the land, regardless of what best practices dictate. Maybe this incident will shed some light on how bad of an idea auto updates are and get C-levels to do something about it, but even if they do, it’ll only last until the next time someone gets compromised by a flaw that was fixed in a dot-release
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Someone should invent a game, that while playing demonstrates how much monopolies suck for everyone involved (except the monopolist)
And make it so you lose friends and family over the course of the 4+ hour game. Also make a thimble to fight over, that would be dope.
Get your filthy fucking paws off my thimble!
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Yes, it’s almost as if there should be laws to prevent that sort of thing. Hmm
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I mean, I’m sure those companies that have them don’t think so—when they aren’t the cause of muti-industry collapses.
The too big to fail philosophy at its finest.
Since when has any antivirus ever had the intent of actually protecting against viruses? The entire antivirus market is a scam.
CrowdStrike has a new meaning… literally Crowd Strike.
They virtually blew up airports