CrowdStrike acknowledges responsibility for global IT chaos | DW News

Broadcasters, airports and several companies across the world were hit with major disruptions after an update caused a global tech outage. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said it has issued a fix.

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[hashtagunderscore]

Did you try turning it on and off again?

[shanghaidiscovery]

I guess Crowdstrike stock gonna crash.... oh wait no, the stock market is offline....

[jamesalias]

Glad I'm retired and no longer working in IT as today would be miserable.

[TheRealEtaoinShrdlu]

Damn, sorry guys, I just tried to restart my router. Didn't mean to accidentally reset EVERYTHING.

[colgategilbert]

This reminds me of a Japanese Movie 'Summer Wars' where a malicious AI Virus took over a IT site used by every one leading to world wide chaos. The old saw 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket' really applies.

[everydayjay]

Is it Skynet? Please let it be Skynet!

[Jormunguandr]

Geez so much costs caused by this. Crowdstrike did better job than malware at impacting companies 😂

[engineer]

Any updates to a commercial system should be tested by the end user organisation prior to release to their network, whether the update is released by itMicrosoft, Crowdstrike or anyone else. Failure to mitigate such a Risk is a failure by the end user organisation.

[mk_annan]

Crowdstrike, I heard, sponsors a lot of Endurance races, like the recents 6 hours of GT racing at Spa, Belgium.
They are an American cybersecurity technology company, for those who don't know.

[CarlWicker]

Imagine being the coder that committed this change to the Crowdstrike codebase.

[jackjhmc]

According to NYT, there would be MINIMAL compensations:
The outages underscored an uncomfortable reality that software companies face few liabilities for major disruptions and cybersecurity incidents. The economic and legal penalties for such significant outages can be so minimal that companies are not motivated to make more fundamental changes. While a car manufacturer would face stiff penalties for faulty breaks, a software provider can often issue another update and move on.

“Until software companies have to pay a price for faulty products, we will be no safer tomorrow than we are today, ” Mr. Parenty said.

[aisle_of_view]

How are they going to deploy an update if the PC Blue Screens at bootup?

[VitalityMassage]

If you go outside you'll notice the weeds are still growing and the birds are still flying. 🙂

[GlobalPenguin]

I hope crowdstrike won’t be sued into bankruptcy

[paulselormey]

From CrowdStrike Blog:
Systems running Linux or macOS do not use Channel File 291 and were not impacted.

[vernearase]

We just have too big a reliance on Microsoft and its partners.

[momomomo]

Let's see. Cofounder and CEO of a cybersecurity company with a degree in ... ACCOUNTING. What can possibly go wrong? 🤔

[PhillipBell]

1, 186 tech companies laid off about 262, 682 staff in 2023, compared to 164, 969 layoffs in 2022. In 2024, 168 tech companies have already laid off 42, 324 employees.

[intelnew]

In 2010 McAfee is aware that a number of customers have incurred a false
positive error due to incorrect malware alerts on Wednesday, April 21.
The problem occurs with the 5958 virus definition file (DAT) that was
released on April 21 at 2.00 PM GMT+1 (6am Pacific Time).

And then CrowdStrike was founded in 2012 by CEO George Kurtz, formerly of McAfee.

[kaba_me]

What a bunch of amateurs... No system backups?
By the way...Microsoft has nothing to do with it. CrowdStrike software caused this.