Crowdstrike Bug Crashes Millions of Computers

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[CroatInAKilt]

We went pretty quickly from "Man, this Windows bloatware is really slowing down my computer" to "Man, this Windows bloatware just crashed grandpa's dialysis machine"

[OdinReactor]

This exposed a massive flaw in IT right now. Nothing that is auto-updated through the internet should be running in Kernel mode. The fact that a third-party company can brick millions of systems remotely IS the problem, not whether it was done maliciously or accidentally. I wonder if Crowdstrike as a company will survive this. Clients are uninstalling it and it's stock is plummeting. Their business is security and trust. Are they trustworthy?

[jonahhekmatyar]

The CEO of Crowdstrike did this as CTO of mcafee too. He is single handedly the most dangerous person to have ever been in IT

[musicalneptunian]

"I will have my vengeance! In this life or the next!"
- Y2K

[lLenn]

Well, you can't hack a computer that has crashed :)

[Konzon]

"Cloud-based security" is an oxymoron.

[FreecGod]

As soon as I heard this on the news, I ran outside, looked up to the skies and saw a translucent, oversized head, of Mental Outlaw above the clouds, smiling down at me from the heavens. I asked him, "Bad OPSEC?", he winked, threw out a thumb's up, and replied "Bad OPSEC".

[Wampa]

Crowdstrike (noun): a large-scale outage or damage of infrastructure caused by the combination of an external vendor's action and industry-wide reliance on said vendor. Example: "The latest crowdstrike has caused a massive disruption of emergency services."
Crowdstrike (verb, simple past and past participle "crowdstruck"): to cause such an outage to happen. Example: "I told my boss this policy would likely crowdstrike us, but I was overruled."

[ltnbdxt]

Bugfix requiring physical intervention? God forbid we will see satellites running on Windows…

[niksatan]

Of course it's getting hot in there when you can't open windows

[stevemrayz]

At least they did what their name promised

[tactknightgaming]

3rd party companies causing 3rd world problems.

[Audentum]

That incident shouldnt have even been possible. the amount of people that should have checked it for issues should have been way longer

[NeoAemaeth]

They pushed a file full of 0 bits. Hence the null dereference. No canary, no file checksums, no testing at all, just pushed it to every single system. Absolute amateur bafoons at work. That was for sure not a just a single person's fault. What an absolute joke of a company.

[wkeebfg]

I work as a gardener and cashier. My bosses are super cheap and google services for their transactions. That saved them any trouble from this, I didn't even know anything was wrong that morning until a customer explained it to me. On the flip side, google is gathering data in everything they do, but so would microsoft or whoever else. Ludicrous privacy invasion is normal now.

[lazymass]

Install malware on your computers and surprised Pikachu face when it bites you... Classic corporate move

[UserMax]

Scary how such a large portion of our infrastructure runs on proprietary software.

[PanicOregon]

You don't need to yank the disk out anyways, just boot the separate disk from BIOS.
But we're talking corporate employees that barely if at all understand what a File is.

[davidcarter]

What a coincidence that my TempleOS machine was unaffected!!

[lizardjr.]

The corporate world outsources everything now to cut down their own labor costs. I lost my job when my department got outsourced to a third party company who does a worse job now.