How one company's mistake took down computers around the globe
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Published 2024-07-19
The outage, on Friday morning, caused widespread disruptions to computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems, The Verge reported. Specifically, the update took the computers offline, then caused them to be stuck in a “recovery boot loop” which prevented their systems from restarting right away, according to the outlet. KTLA's Samantha Cortese reports. July 19, 2024.
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All Comments (21)
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Who needs hostile hackers when we have dummies running the show.
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Never put all your eggs in one basket.
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Cyberstrike needs to have about 12 engineers peer review and sign-off on their updates before pushing them out. Usually they are the ONES who are tasked with securing systems and figuring out why malware works like it does. preventing outages rather than causing them. How embarrassing.
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Not acceptable. They should be sued for all the problems caused.
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Ban CrowdStrike
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So much for quality assurance!
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Too many companies using the same software. Computer equivalent of a pandemic
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dont push code to production on fridays, also crasy that the program for cybersecurity operates on the kernel level so if something happens to the program it affecting whole OS, Linux and Apple OS safe from this, ironic
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Restore the system
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An honest mistake
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STOP UPLINKING EVERYTHING TO THE CLOUD SERVER 🤦♂️
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One system WEF. This is the first of many. Monopolies only help monopolies. We are servants of the system, not the controllers. Waiting for Skynet here.
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Was a sabotage from within the company then.
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Aka: SKYNET
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looks like the gta5 hackers got on the pay roll at crowdstrike
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Pfft, there's a DR (disaster recovery) plan for all businesses to leave a spare bunch of PCs with the update service disabled in a cupboard in case of an outage for many years...
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software is complex but that's not the reason for this disaster. their QA people are incompetent.
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I’ve been waiting for weeks to download the latest update but the corporate company’s got in first I’m designated to Linux still waiting (that’s the Microsoft one - does that include Microsoft Firefox)
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CrowdStrike. More like CrowdFire.
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2:09 KURBLEWEY??