CrowdStrike to face US Congress over global IT outage | BBC News

A CrowdStrike executive will testify at the US Congress on Tuesday to explain what caused the global IT outage on 19 July.
A rogue software update by the US cybersecurity company crippled up to eight and a half million computers using Microsoft systems around the world.
The outage meant GPs couldn't treat patients, people were stranded as planes couldn't get off the ground, and small businesses lost thousands in sales.
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Imagine the QA teams at crowdstrike

[@theelmonk]

What QA teams ?

[@danielandrews5357]

@@theelmonk yup 😂

[@spmadeinusa4594]

I recall meeting with Bell Labs decades ago. We were all working in Advanced Technology Centers. The Bell engineers described legacy Federal Communication Commission requirements in place for decades, which mandated "There would always (99.99%) be a dial tone when you picked up the phone, and the network could have no more than a two minute (120 second) cumulative disruption each month. The engineers said "Those rules drove our reliability, which drove our network design. The penalties for violations were severe, including license forfeitures, and eventually, federally mandated competition." Or course, fast forward to multiple cell phone networks and those reliability standards are now extinct dinosaurs.

[@dulynoted2427]

Crowdstrike has been nothing but sketchy and disingenuous. Check out, Final Nail in Russiagate Coffin: Crowdstrike Admits "No Evidence" on The Jimmy Dore Show with guest, Aaron Mate

[@lewis123417]

Maybe it was a bad idea to have loads of critical infrastructure rely on a single software company......

[@Chops473]

Keep consolidating everything to just a few companies... that makes so much sense!

[@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418]

stop using Windows then🤷 that same S/W exists on MacOS and Linux.

[@erikj2738]

surreal

[@mrthomasfritz]

Garbage in... garbage out... stop to use garbage.

[@duncanstewart6381]

They will have to pay for the repairs. Nerds 🤓

[@publics.public]

So what dirty business was conducted behind this outage smokescrean ?

[@kinginthenaught]

the cloud struck!

[@dulynoted2427]

Crowdstrike has been nothing but sketchy and disingenuous. Check out, Final Nail in Russiagate Coffin: Crowdstrike Admits "No Evidence" on The Jimmy Dore Show with guest, Aaron Mate

[@天下為公1911]

Microsoft: I should take control like Apple, do I.

[@Some_dude_eh]

I don't blame the staff, like Bowen it's always the company going rush-rush-rush get it out in time. Staff wanting more done but the bosses saying no.

[@outdoorsy01]

Who?

[@raquetdude]

Conservative economics of monopolies functioning as they should… great ideas that have no faults /s

[@thedogsdiddies8421]

Bug infested, like Paris?

[@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418]

😂😂 the lady from Gresham college was not very useful. Not sure Mr Bore was all that illuminating either. The issue is you have third party S/W running at the kernel level (eg windows brain) on Windows OSes.There are four 'rings' in an OS sadly everything seems to run either in user space ring 3 or ring 0 (kernel) with full privileges. CrowdStrikes cockup overwrote other parts of memory on the affected machines. CrowdStrike wrote a paper detailing the fault and MS have written up a blog around an industry seminar that was held recently where this was discussed. The real way to stop this is ban Ring 0 code that isn't MS developed and tested. OR provide a controlled interface instead of the existing free for all.....which won't happen...

[@NebulaSnoozeRelax]

What if every person took a break from doing stupid shite?

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[@richardkent2014]

My biggest mistake in life was thinking that the internet would be a great tool we can communicate and it would bring humanity together. that's my biggest disappointment in the world today

[@EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME]

Holy f^ck the accuracy. Couldn't agree more.

[@FreshSmog]

Same with AI. Everyone though AI would do the tough jobs while people enjoy creative pursuits like art and music. In reality, AI took over art and music while people do the tough jobs for less money.

[@Some_dude_eh]

That comment kinda broke my heart a little. What a great gift to us, but we were juvenile about it all.

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[@Kirk720]

All by design, airlines made millions from this.

[@e.matthews]

What? No, they had to **cancel** many thousands of flights? There is no profit to be had from shutting down your operations. Where are you getting this from?

[@lewis123417]

How tf did airlines make millions from this 😂

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Me bang bang

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[@kinginthenaught]

interesting how the world was fully functional before tech. cant even visit a doctor? lmao

[@acidkick2057]

“Oh no, I lost 900 pounds from my Disney funds” *cries on camera* … First world problems.

[@Da_Juice]

She was saving and planning for that trip for months. Perfectly reasonable to be upset about it

[@lewis123417]

Perfectly reasonable for people to be upset about losing their savings.

[@user-fed-yum]

I can't wait to hear them explain what dereferencing a null pointer does to your computer, when running in unprotected mode. Or what Microsoft has to say for itself producing garbage "operating systems" for decades, and how it might explain that this kind of third party ingress into its innermosts, is just not possible on MacOS.

[@theelmonk]

It's not entirely Microsoft's fault, for once, but it does illustrate the danger of a lack of diversity

[@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418]

there's a reason Windows is a piece of crap held together with sticky tape🤦there's so many ways to break it.

[@HOTSPURTAKES]

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[@lastChang]

CrowdStrike needs to take a look at 🇨🇳 China-born Chinese working at the cloud services in the company.

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Is this 🤡bot what the 🇺🇸 spend billions of dollars on to spread anti-Chinese propaganda??? 😂

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Gordon Chang 😂😂😂

[@theelmonk]

Paranoia is a wonderful thing

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