CrowdStrike outage affects entire globe Friday

[@TheMusicolophile]

Crowd Strike really struck the crowd today, didn’t they?

[@victoryan4008]

Interesting choice of name indeed. I wonder whether they meant "the crowd will strike you, buy our products to prevent" or "we will strike the crowd for you"

[@TheCrystallineAnunna]

I worked IT for almost 20 years. I feel for ALL of the poor agents having flipped out customers. All the best folks. I hope this is not some kind of "test run"? 🤔

[@rosemariebredahl9519]

Learn: Too many eggs in one basket. Decentralize (& diversify back-up) for resilience. True for all vital systems & infrastructure. 🗺️

[@cableapostle]

I agree with you.

[@Red00022]

Or just program shit correctly

[@black79montecarlo123]

Very well said and keep it in America!

[@willnadauld]

Wait till emp or grid down

[@ninemoonplanet]

Definitely, relying on just two companies, worldwide, is going to risk a lot of different things. Why didn't Crowdstrike and Microsoft test before putting this out? Someone mentioned Microsoft pushed it without any testing. Dumb.

[@jimbabweNY]

Crowdstrike better hope they have good liability insurance. And lawyers.

[@LadyDiamond-gv3bk]

Crowd strike it’s not a cyber attack hmm?

[@ninemoonplanet]

No, this went to the "kernel" or very basic level of coding in a computer, hacking usually hits things like apps, extensions.

[@CharlesThorpe-l4b]

We depend on computers to much.

[@thedurtyversion]

CrowdStrike’s recent downtime is ironically eroding the financial savings it promises to secure for companies against hackers. Companies invest in security after hearing about others losing millions to cyberattacks, only to face similar operational disruptions themselves. For instance, a company might avoid a $2M hack by using the software, but then suffer greater losses due to downtime-potentially costing more than the original threat they aimed to mitigate.

[@thewolfofwokest7521]

Downtime while they install new software?

[@00st307-m]

This is how I feel about most insurance. You pay into the insurance - only to be told it’s not covered. And perhaps you could have helped future your self more simply by saving those payments into a separate account for emergencies.

[@ninemoonplanet]

Especially when it's worldwide and affects major corporations, health care services, and cities.

[@Gabriel-xq6tn]

This denial service attack spreads accross the entire global network the internet affecting any devices with window operating systems including personal home computer. It affected my PC. How can you say that's not a network attack?

[@shamrackle3712]

Is this connected to the failure of the Windows 11 update release?

[@ninemoonplanet]

It's not directly connected to the 11 version, but it's a separate program that is available for Windows OS 10 and 11. Most personal computers won't have it from Crowdstrike.

[@TheMediterano]

I still can't conceive the following points: 1) How were such a widely used product's automatic and manual test processes not able to catch the bug? 2) Don't they adopt canary or blue/green deployment strategies in order to reduce the blast radius in such large roll-outs?

[@misterdude123]

Thar is what you get with cloud computing.

[@antispindr8613]

But where not people warned that The Cloud might turn out to be pie in the sky?

[@misterdude123]

@antispindr8613 perhaps but did they listen? BTW if you have friends staring at the blue screen of death tell them to restart their device even if they need to unplug the power first and on restart the os will revert to its last good point and the bad patch is removed. Can't figure out why the world hasn't thought of that. I restarted one drive and it has been working fine since.

[@chancefoxhauck475]

Thank you for your candor and honesty local news

[@ninemoonplanet]

Two companies Crowdstrike and Microsoft caused worldwide outages. Anyone would think having just two companies able to affect MILLIONS of people worldwide wouldn't be a good idea. Consolidation may make some things easier, but it has (obviously) it's own drawbacks. Hospitals MUST have reliable systems. People could easily lose their life because of the lack of information. Linux users, Apple users of Macintosh machines are NOT affected. Testing MUST be done on anything changed or added to a computer, especially if it is kernel level.

[@ninemoonplanet]

If there are "strike keys" on computers, it requires an IT specialist to do the removal of the file. Recommended to get someone who knows where to find the file and how to remove it safely. Each computer must be started in "safe mode".

[@scspolitical]

Best scene of TAHM…goes highly emotional which is unusual and immediately drops to the funny side😅

[@lizhall2961]

This is why we should not exclusively use technology or AI to solve agricultural problems. While border security is important, cyber security is more essential.

[@momoftwobunnies]

God forbid you can't give basic change at busniesses 😂

[@seanvangster]

So this only affects 3 major airlines.. what about those other low cost airlines or airlines from different countries? Guess they don’t use crowdstrike

[@mattsmelley5569]

Only time will tell.. exactly

[@HiltonT69]

Who ever thought to name their software "Crowdstrike" had amazing foresight. :)

[@cathyr2419]

I'd like to order 2 lab created burgers, mayo, lettuce and tomato. Thanks!!

[@thewolfofwokest7521]

As long as the veges are GMO as well

[@griver007able]

This is the scenario that we were preparing duringvthe Y2K crazed 😮

[@louismat319]

I wish they stop say "IT Outages". Its a CrowdStrike outage, not IT

[@jonasbaine3538]

That is just foreshadowing entire IT departments resigning after realizing vast amounts of computers each need MANUAL file directory fixes because they’re all OFFLINE/cant connect to internet. FUBAR.

[@KMFDM_Kid2000]

CrowdStrike wasn't down. They CAUSED IT systems to GO down.

[@Mike_Virata]

Some were calling it Microsoft Outage.

[@shinshen9020]

​@@Mike_VirataBecause Ordinary People's most intuitive feeling is that Microsoft has a problem! Only professional IT analysts know this is not supposed to be Microsoft

[@ChrisEbbrsen]

Thanx everyone!

[@rrz1615]

Leave everything behind….

[@Steve_1492]

It wasn't an internet outage, it was a Windows outage.

[@black79montecarlo123]

Almost seems like Bill Gates needs to focus less on politics and what kind of meat I like to eat and focus more on his crap software company....

[@EVEMASTER99]

Bothers me that outlets are reporting it as Microsoft, when it's not Microsoft. It's a third party security software that runs on Microsoft windows. I get that not everyone is familiar but still.

[@Steve_1492]

@@EVEMASTER99 MS had a Azure outage at roughly the same time affecting many systems too.

[@ninemoonplanet]

Linux and Apple Mac users are NOT affected. Linux is also commonly known as "Android" OS like a lot of phones. Linux is frequently used to "beta test" apps, programs, extensions even by many corporations. This obviously wasn't tested before it was "pushed" by both companies.

[@hawaiiguykailua6928]

Pointing out beta testing will get your comment banned apparently as I made very clear and professional comment on beta testing participants. Think about that...

[@aisle_of_view]

Yup, YT has gone crazy with their censorship in the past week. Looks like they've implemented new bots to search and destroy posts based not only on keywords.

[@thewolfofwokest7521]

The ai is an insane karen

[@tonycaine5930]

90% of all IT related issues are outsourced to India. Crowdstrike may be based in Texas but they outsourced some of their duties to India.

[@denzelpardillo1181]

And what about Crowdstrike India? You trying to assume they caused this issue?

[@tonycaine5930]

@@denzelpardillo1181 Boeing's flight simulation software issues a couple years ago were also caused by bad software coding done by Indian software engineers. So yes I bet my bottom dollars this update was not thoroughly tested by Indian testers.

[@markwatney8641]

IT issues are even bigger in Texas

[@ChristophSchmitt-xg4di]

It does not affect Russia and China

[@cartier9739]

because they are using different cybersycurity apps

[@KolluVeers]

All pupulls

[@josecanedo007]

Bug=software developer mistake.

[@Brick1978]

Is there news outlets in China and Russia reporting the same thing ???????

[@shinshen9020]

Yes, Douyin and all major media in China have reported it, but the impact is all on foreign companies in China. Friday did nothing, because I work for an American company in China, Haha, chinese companies do not apply this security software, the impact of almost no!

[@cfwin1776]

China: what problem?

[@jaym9846]

Woohoo! All my debt got erased. ❤CrowdStrike & Microsoft

[@tomtang]

100 refund. Good luck my friends 😢😢😢

[@AlvaroGilFernandez]

To save face, Microsoft has always blamed when it crashes a virus, which in the majority of the cases was not true it was faults in the windows programming now they blame the antiviruses sorry but it’s just faulty. Updates done to the windows system on your computer long time ago it was Few updates now they’re doing massive updates all of the computers at the same time and Microsoft is not replacing anymore. It’s software it just left it as is with all its bugs. Microsoft is the one to blame and Microsoft should be sued because it’s a huge problem because everybody has been depending on, monopoly has Microsoft and the alternative is going days and maybe months to fix all of this

[@Lacerated1DJ3]

the USA banned the best Security suite in the world, Kaspersky, and now the security company they let take over, CrowdStrike, has dropped the ball and sent out a BAD update. #Karma

[@hawaiiguykailua6928]

Didn't drop the ball, no way that kernel made it through beta testing participants, so it was fully authorized and intentional. Which is way worse as that is but a small part of the coming whole.

[@mikepeebles]

Wall Street is next

[@antispindr8613]

Almost as if the machines have worked out that Greed is Not Good?

[@mostaanroya]

That happens when you pay a dollar a day for engineers in India instead of hiring Americans

[@denzelpardillo1181]

Any proof of what you're saying was caused by Crowdstrike India or are you just assuming?

[@gtoramirez]

@@denzelpardillo1181I’m not pointing fingers like others, but it happened while the US was asleep…

[@KL-sw5xi]

LESSON LEARNED: Don't send software research/development/testing to India.

[@KMFDM_Kid2000]

They're based in Texas...

[@denzelpardillo1181]

Any proof of what you're saying was caused by Crowdstrike India or are you just assuming?

[@ChickenWang-b2t]

Apple users laughing at everyone 😂😂😂

[@Gabriel-xq6tn]

@@ChickenWang-b2t what about Linux?

[@dilibau]

I just fell in love with Olivia

[@ChickenWang-b2t]

Sure it was a update error or whatever they say what’s next sleepy joe and unicorn 🦄

[@xtremearmor]

It was not an outage. It took systems down, that is not an outage.

[@denzelpardillo1181]

Still not fixed i see.

[@pgpleroux]

Using a PC (personal computer) in a business is like using star lights in a powder factory. Upgrade to a BC (business computer = Linux)

[@BlueDude-cf9mk]

It’s definitely a security incident. Just not from a hacker

[@villagransimon]

This speech is a lie, our equipment was not connected to the internet and failed. This was a major cyberattack

[@antispindr8613]

Do you know that 100%?

[@alexcooper94]

AI became sentient and is messing with humanity lol

[@user-lq2xo8eq3p]

Just a little bug huh😂😂😂😂😂

[@87697]

Blue Friday

[@shamrackle3712]

What?! Mayor Pete in charge? 🫨🧐👀

[@willnadauld]

Dont worry, buttige is on it lol..

[@markwatney8641]

Thanks bill gates