CrowdStrike Blew Up The Internet

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[vasil]

So, a company that builds software to protect computers against cyberattacks, has deployed a software update that behaves exactly like a cyberattack. Got it. Aptly named company, by the way.

[AgentM]

"We don't need to test this patch to the falcon driver, just deploy the update to all our customers immediately. Nothing can go wrong"

[jdlucas]

Paper and pencil were the saviors of the night last night at our local 911 dispatch center. Medical calls, law enforcement calls, an oil spill, normally not a problem for a couple of overnight dispatchers to handle with Computer Aided Dispatch software, but it became instant hair-pulling frustration when suddenly everything had to be tracked on paper.

[BethanyGallagher-dw]

My father just got diagnosed with colon cancer and needs surgery ASAP, now this happens and the hospital we want to transfer him to has an outage. Thanks CrowdStrike!

[Artak]

"Can't be hacked if your computer won't turn on - Crowdstrike

[DaSyEnTisT]

"I don't always test my code but when I do it's in production"

[salishseas]

It’s nerve-wracking to give a $250, 000 immunotherapy drug if we can’t do our safety checks on our oncology unit computer. The patient lived. I think it took a couple years off my life.

[KianaDChaudhry]

very CrowdStrike employee's Todo list for this weekend:
1) clean LinkedIn job history
2) apply for new job
3) profit

[DaBalloon]

Crowdstrike is the best anti malware company on the planet. Can't get malware if you can't boot. Giga-brain

[jonathansouthern]

I manage a Starbucks and live in a city of 100, 000 people. I walked in at 5am saw the blue screen on our POS said "Huh.." unplugged it then plugged it back in and it worked. Our corporate called my boss and asked how our Starbucks is the only one up.. How was I the only Starbucks in a district of a major city that figured out. "Did you try turning it off and back on again?" Corporate should be paying me a major salary...

[Soren]

This should be a wake-up call to set all your updates to manual

[ronpaul]

With over 10, 000 users....40, 000 devices...our entire company was nuked by this.

[StevenBara]

Every CrowdStrike employee's Todo list for this weekend:
1) clean LinkedIn job history
2) apply for new job
3) profit

[_Safety_Third_]

The longer I work as a software developer, the less I trust computer software.

[hojo]

I work for the largest financial firm in the country, this has had MAJOR financial impact on us. I speculate two things will happen 1) this software will be removed from every server in our firm over the next few days, 2) that CEO will be unemployed and Crowdstrike as a company is DONE

[skyvenrazgriz]

Flights canceled, hospiltals closed for the day, supermarkets cant process card payments... i cant wait to also live in a cashless society

[kellymoses]

I can't believe they pushed a poorly tested update to the entire freaking world at once. You deploy to 100 systems first and wait 24 hours and if everything works you then deploy more widely.

[MrGrumblier]

Boss: Team, I told Crowdstrike we would be ready to roll out the update before the weekend.
Dev 1: No way, we need to test it.
Boss: Don't you want the weekend off? Roll it out immediately.
Dev 1: But it isn't...
Boss: Dev2, roll out the update, Dev 1said it was ready.
Dev 2: Okay boss.

Chaos ensues.

Boss: I told you guys we needed to test before rolling out the patch!

[troublevrecords]

Linux user:
"*sips from the beer* I'll watch the world burn now"

[marcelogonzalezdanke]

I'm a court worker in Sydney. Our entire judicial system shut down proceedings which could no longer be transcribed.