Global IT outages due to Crowdstrike got the whole world shook up (The FAA has grounded flights from Delta, United and AA)

[gldnone913]

So buy their stock? I don’t even know the name without scrolling to look at it, never heard of it before today

 

[froggle]

Chaos persists as IT outage could take time to fix, says cybersecurity firm boss

Airports, banking and healthcare were all hit when a Crowdstrike update triggered huge Microsoft outages.

www.bbc.co.uk

Crowdstrike has lost a fifth of its value in pre-market trading in the US - down 21% in unofficial trading.

If confirmed when US stock markets open later today, that is a loss of $16 billion in its overnight valuation.

Industry insiders say the problem is centred on the fact that cloud security companies have very high level privileges to update the core systems of their customers.

When this works, it helps protect their systems. When an attempted update fails, it brings down the systems they are supposed to protect, all at once.

While the fix is in theory, simple - updating systems physically from backup disks - in practice this is now more difficult in a cloud computing world. G

Governments face serious questions about how resilient our economic infrastructure is to this sort of epic failure.

Does it make sense to allow significant concentration on one company or product?

weren't y'all laughing a couple weeks back that Japan still uses physical media, especially 3.5" floppy disks

 

[jwonder]

I work from home. Free day off. shyt is not like I do much anyway. But yes I'm hitting the streets

 

[Harry Sax]

shyt is affecting GM. Our suppliers are down; we aren't getting parts. Some folks' checks are still pending and haven't deposited yet.

Like a rock



ARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH LAKAROK

 

[RageKage]

Yep, just had family flight plans cancelled today cuz of this shyt

 

[Bugzbunny129]

Shoulsnt have killed macafee. This didnt happen under his or nortons watch

 

[duckbutta]

The computers definitely aint puttin' today.

A lot of our systems are down too.

This could put Crowdstrike out of business.

It's an exec at my company wanting to know how we can not deal with crowdstrike going forward

This also implies that they pushed this to all their production systems at once. Cause shyt went from not broke to broke across the world in like 30 seconds

 

[Harry Sax]

shyt is affecting GM. Our suppliers are down; we aren't getting parts. Some folks' checks are still pending and haven't deposited yet.

Like a rock



ARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH LAKAROK

 

[Yapdatfool]

I had setup and deployed crowdstrike for my old job... glad im not there no mo

 

[HoldThisL]

I woke up and thought something happened only to my laptop.

 

[chiefdogg]

It's an exec at my company wanting to know how we can not deal with crowdstrike going forward

This also implies that they pushed this to all their production systems at once. Cause shyt went from not broke to broke across the world in like 30 seconds

Hold on, they didn't test this on non-prod systems first?

 

[We Ready]

shyt is affecting GM. Our suppliers are down; we aren't getting parts. Some folks' checks are still pending and haven't deposited yet.

Yeah. No way to know what part is running, how many are left to run, record downtime events.........

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Hope this ain’t one of those companies that decided laying mad people off would be better than having people there who know what they’re doing to stop shyt like this.

 

[gldnone913]

It's an exec at my company wanting to know how we can not deal with crowdstrike going forward

This also implies that they pushed this to all their production systems at once. Cause shyt went from not broke to broke across the world in like 30 seconds

Stay strong today, my 6 cert brethren

Today will suck for some. For others, chaos is a ladder

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

The coli is running fine and that’s all that matters