A crowdstrike update has caused millions of windows system to blue screen and go into a reboot loop taking out airlines and other critical infrastructure worldwide. It's going to be a long few days for system admins everywhere.
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Who cares. Looks like pajeets will be busy in IT offices while I'm outside doing real work in 100 degree heat
Who cares? It's an obvious test run for upcoming grid failures. It would behoove you to listen when these people tell you who they are.
CROWDSTRIKE is mentioned directly 19 times in drops
All related to the DNC Server Hack, the framing of Russia, connections to the Clinton Foundation, Obama, etc etc
Pause and read at your leisure. https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1814287497171488812
https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_error_in_latest_crowdstrike_update/
https://archive.is/4LYj1
NYTimes Live Updates: Global Tech Outage Grounds Flights and Hits Businesses
Australia Broadcasting Live Coverage (ABCNEWS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOTiJkg1voo
Can someone explain to me how anti-ddos software going down causes such widespread outages? Am I missing something?
I can. Crowdstrike t's antivirus software on lots of business computers and servers. The software updates itself regularly with the latest version. Someone fucked up with developing the latest version and it contained a pretty bad bug that got past testing. This bug caused the machine that it's on to blue screen and go into a reboot cycle. The only way to fix it is to manually boot the computer in safe mode and delete the updated version/file that has the bug.
It get's even more complicated if you use encryption software like bitlocker. You need to manually type in a 48-digit numerical password to unlock the encryption so you can delete the stupid file.
Imagine having to do this exact thing on 50,000 computers this weekend. That's how many systems are affected at just some companies. Millions of systems affected overall. Thank your stars you don't work in IT.
I will add that in the scale of IT fuckups, the fix actually is pretty straight forward and probably takes just a few minutes. It just gets hard when you have a lot of remote or virtual systems and can't automate a fix.
Remember cyber polygon? This feels like a dress rehearsal