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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
  • A global Microsoft Windows outage, caused by a CrowdStrike software update, has disrupted airlines, banking services, and 911 lines, leading to grounded flights and long queues.
  • The issue resulted in many systems experiencing the “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), affecting major carriers and airports worldwide, and also impacted the London Stock Exchange and Australian banking systems.
  • CrowdStrike has identified and isolated the defect, deploying a fix, but recovery is expected to be slow due to the need for manual intervention on affected devices.
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[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

And that's why the IT dept needs to test all software updates before rolling them out on the productive systems.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, a lot of people are (understandably) mad at Crowdstrike right now, but I want to drag some c-suite executives into a conference room and impress upon them the value of allocating budget for test environments and disaster recovery. Banks, airlines, service providers, these aren't mom-and-pop bakeries and plumbers who don't have time for all that nonsense. Every service that went down should be looking for the fuckwit in their organization, and they're probably in the executive lounge. Anyone can make a mistake, but it takes dedication to systematically ignore the best advice of top experts in the field and run your infrastructure on a shoestring budget.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

IT is just a cost center to most executives.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Software development is also a cost center in my company I work for.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

... value of allocating budget for test environments and disaster recovery ...

I mean, they do have a test environment. Everyone does have one!

They're just missing a separated production environment....

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Man, money for a test environment is pretty low on my list of priorities right now. I'm trying to row a 20 man boat with one other person.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The CTO of Clownstrike presided over a similar disaster in 2010 too. AFAIK.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Nah real men commit straight to prod. Why yes, I do have 13 bastard children, condoms are also for cowards

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Guys.....this is TOTALLY Rick. He's just avoiding his child support payments.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I invoke the shaggy defense

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, don't do what I do at home and edit live PHP with users on the server...

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If they're as slow to roll out the updates to CS as they are the rest of the updates we'll be a year behind on CS updates haha.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been awhile since we've POCed Crowdstrike, but I don't think you can set the cadence on updates for Crowdstrike. I believe Crowdstrike enforces auto-updates, it was at least the default setting.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Deploy to prd! I'm on holiday.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Cmon guys, it's Crowdstrike implementing the 4 day week.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Or the 7 day week if you're in IT.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Luckily I'm using Linux!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What is crowd strike and is it a Microsoft product?

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

CrowdStrike is a popular third-party suite of security software that has forced OTA updates. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/19/tech/crowdstrike-update-global-outage-explainer/index.html It’s not a Microsoft product.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

crowdstrike doing just a little of tomfoolery

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