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2024-07-19 Cyber
Crowdstrike issues brings millions of systems down around the world
[MSN] A major IT outage reportedly linked to the U.S. cybersecurity company Crowdstrike has caused chaos for businesses across the world.

The global software issue has forced many banks, airlines and broadcasters to go offline, and caused many Windows computers to crash suddenly.

In a post on its website, Crowdstrike said: "Crowdstrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows related to the Falcon Sensor."

Microsoft has warned of a "severe degradation" to its services, but added that a number of its products had been restored.

Among the services still impacted is Microsoft Teams, on which users may be unable to access group chats. Microsoft Purview, Microsoft 365 admin center, Microsoft Fabric, and PowerBI are all still affected, the company said.

Commenting on the outages, Microsoft said: "We're continuing to progress on our mitigation efforts for the affected Microsoft 365 apps and services. We still expect users to see remediation as we address residual impact."
Yep. Got a call after midnight MST and still on at 3am. BSOD loop. Only way to fix it is to boot the computer into safe mode and remove the bad driver. I work for a hospital that has bitlocker too so we are looking at thousands of computer that need to be physically touched to fix this since it can't be automated. Expect banking, finance, hospitals, airlines and government sites to be offline for a couple days.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-07-19 05:05|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ]  Top

#1 I am supposed to be on a flight from LAX to RDU. It was suppose to leave at 11 pm, then 12:30. Eventually, they had us deplane. Now the flight is supposed to go at 3 AM. We shall see.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2024-07-19 05:22||   2024-07-19 05:22|| Front Page Top

#2 New departure time is 4:15, 5 hours late. I guess it's better than predicted.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2024-07-19 06:42||   2024-07-19 06:42|| Front Page Top

#3 I hope you can get some kind of reimbursement.
Posted by DooDahMan 2024-07-19 06:55||   2024-07-19 06:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Today is my county's deadline for real estate tax payments. I submitted an online payment days ago and my bank account didn't show it as being processed. This evening I went to the county fiscal office website to check my tax account's status & found I was unable to do so. Fortunately my bank website is still working and it shows the payment has having been made (a few minutes ago).
Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-07-19 07:42||   2024-07-19 07:42|| Front Page Top

#5 
Wait until the Dark World Black-Hats release their AI driven Virus.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-07-19 07:53||   2024-07-19 07:53|| Front Page Top

#6 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 08:15||   2024-07-19 08:15|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 08:16||   2024-07-19 08:16|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 08:17||   2024-07-19 08:17|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 08:21||   2024-07-19 08:21|| Front Page Top

#10 my main gripe with microsoft is its update policy. I cannot refuse windows 'upgrades'. I would like the option to keep what i have.
Posted by irish rage boy  2024-07-19 08:52||   2024-07-19 08:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Unsurprisingly, Crowdstrike stock is taking a hit in pre market trading.

Down about 12% (that's about $9B in market value) as of a few minutes ago.
Posted by Lord Garth 2024-07-19 08:59||   2024-07-19 08:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Hunting the DNC hackers: how Crowdstrike found proof Russia hacked the Democrats
Posted by Frank G 2024-07-19 09:02||   2024-07-19 09:02|| Front Page Top

#13 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 09:03||   2024-07-19 09:03|| Front Page Top

#14 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 09:10||   2024-07-19 09:10|| Front Page Top

#15 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 09:28||   2024-07-19 09:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Wow! I am glad I live like an introverted hermit and have replaced Windoze with alternate OS.
Posted by `AlmostAmonymous5839 2024-07-19 09:36||   2024-07-19 09:36|| Front Page Top

#17 Crowdstrike CEO issues apology for 'mother of all outages' - but admits it could be hours before systems are back online

Palestinian IT staff?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-19 10:26||   2024-07-19 10:26|| Front Page Top

#18 We had ~8,000 computers down this morning including several critical systems. Needless to say not many surgeries will be done today and everyone went back to paper for downtime procedures.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-07-19 11:00||   2024-07-19 11:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Now imagine the commie central management doing away with cash and imposing a cashless economy. Wake up without an economy one morning.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-07-19 11:07||   2024-07-19 11:07|| Front Page Top

#20 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 11:20||   2024-07-19 11:20|| Front Page Top

#21 ^😂
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-07-19 11:23||   2024-07-19 11:23|| Front Page Top

#22 Ain't no blue screen here. Linux, man.

From an article on CNBC...

Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-07-19 11:23||   2024-07-19 11:23|| Front Page Top

#23 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 11:24||   2024-07-19 11:24|| Front Page Top

#24 Palestinian IT staff?

Paks...or Indians.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-07-19 11:28||   2024-07-19 11:28|| Front Page Top

#25 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 11:28||   2024-07-19 11:28|| Front Page Top

#26 ...everyone went back to paper for downtime procedures...

Might be a good idea to exercise those paper for downtime procedures every once in a while, just like fire drills. Either that or switch to Linux.

Yes, indeed. Two of my all time favorite tech companies (NOT) choking on their own hubris. LOL.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-07-19 11:33||   2024-07-19 11:33|| Front Page Top

#27 a good idea to exercise those paper for downtime procedures every once in a while

Most hospitals do as they are all on Epic. Nice to use, but clunky to manage. Of course when Obumble mandated electronic records, the contract went to his buddy that owned the company and thus we have this.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-07-19 11:36||   2024-07-19 11:36|| Front Page Top

#28 Since this update put a wide variety of machines (bare metal as well as virtual) in a very conspicuous service-denied state one of the following assumptions is true.

1.) A billion dollar software company selling a crucial security software package released a patch without even performing a basic automated token test on its own hardware before publication.

2.) This was a deliberate act of sabotage. Perhaps some nefarious action somewhere in the world can only be taken if certain IT systems are disabled for a couple of hours.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-07-19 14:25||   2024-07-19 14:25|| Front Page Top

#29 With the SEC advancing blockchain ETFs, look for a distributed verification solution to popup.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-19 14:55||   2024-07-19 14:55|| Front Page Top

#30 
Posted by badanov 2024-07-19 15:07||   2024-07-19 15:07|| Front Page Top

#31 #28

3) when you hit a billion+ lines of code, interesting things happen.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-07-19 15:17||   2024-07-19 15:17|| Front Page Top

#32 [RT]Russiagate cheerleaders, spy agency links: what you need to know about CrowdStrike, the firm behind the global IT outage
Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-19 15:24||   2024-07-19 15:24|| Front Page Top

#33 @31

This is not a subtle error and it affects mostly corporate customers who are running the software on standardized hardware and software environments known to Crowdstrike.

We would have to assume that this patch was released before being tested at all, either on real hardware in VMs customized to resemble customer's IT infrastructure or in full emulation.

Interesting things of this nature would have caught by even trivial automated testing.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-07-19 15:38||   2024-07-19 15:38|| Front Page Top

#34 We would have to assume that this patch was released before being tested at all

"Did it compile? Then ship it! We can run the full test suite later when we have more time."
Posted by SteveS 2024-07-19 15:59||   2024-07-19 15:59|| Front Page Top

#35 I bet this is why I haven't been able to get gas around here yesterday and today. (1970s flashback...)
Posted by Glenmore 2024-07-19 16:01||   2024-07-19 16:01|| Front Page Top

#36 ^DEI in action?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-07-19 16:11||   2024-07-19 16:11|| Front Page Top

#37 #36 for #34
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-07-19 16:12||   2024-07-19 16:12|| Front Page Top

#38 CrowdStrike is a U.S. cybersecurity company that provides software to companies around the world and across industries. It bills itself as being the globe's most advanced cloud-based security technology provider. “We stop breaches,” the cybersecurity firm writes on its website. AP News

Founded in 2011 and based in Austin, Texas, CrowdStrike operates in more than 170 countries and employed more than 7,900 people as of January. The U.S. accounted for nearly 70% of the more than $900 million in revenue it reported for the quarter ended April. Reuters.com

CrowdStrike Competitors
SentinelOne Singularity Platform.
Harmony Endpoint.
Trend Micro XDR.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
Cortex XDR.
ThreatDown Endpoint Detection and Response.
Cybereason Defense Platform.
WatchGuard EPDR.
Posted by Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857 2024-07-19 16:20||   2024-07-19 16:20|| Front Page Top

#39 ^DEI in action?

Gold Partner of Bright Network, if the ad is authentic.

DEIB(elonging)
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-07-19 16:52||   2024-07-19 16:52|| Front Page Top

#40 Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Hardly a competitor to anything...
Posted by DarthVader 2024-07-19 16:58||   2024-07-19 16:58|| Front Page Top

#41 #22 Linux, man.

I'd laugh too... if I hadn't spent half the night trying to get the gparted GUI working on a PC I wouldn't pay twenty bucks for at a garage sale. Nostalgia. Which excuse does not apply... for my battle with a pi... over 4k. Why, G-d, why?
Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-07-19 17:18||   2024-07-19 17:18|| Front Page Top

#42 We would have to assume that this patch was released before being tested at all

I did say hubris, did I not? They think they're so good they don't have to test. Shooting from the hip when it was totally unnecessary. Or it could have been deliberate.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-07-19 19:35||   2024-07-19 19:35|| Front Page Top

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