Big Turk Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 This is kinda crazy how things are so interconnected that a single bad update could cause this type of widespread issue that has things ground to a halt for hours and hours and hours. Crowdstrike, a global IT security firm, pushed out a corrupted update for Windows that caused a bunch of problems and has ground many IT related things to a halt overnight and into this morning. Really scary to think if it's this easy for someone to simply release a bad update and do this, what could China or another country do to the USA if it declares war on us...and apparently they have been infiltrating our infrastructure systems for years and years now undetected. They could potentially shut down everything once they have things in place and pull the trigger on it. https://www.theverge.com/24201803/crowdstrike-microsoft-it-global-outage-airlines-banking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 Do the businesses get 1 year of credit monitoring coupons for the screw up? I have gotten dozens. It apparently affected my medical insurance capability to search for providers according to call for help I made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 My wife got held up leaving NYC yesterday. All the flights got pushed back, and when she finally got to ATL all the shuttle trains were shut down. The original plan was not to get home at 1:00am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 I blame Microsoft. Crappy OS. Everything should Unix or Linux. Death to Microsoft! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleezoid Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 It probably was a hack-job. Why would a global IT security firm admit they've been hacked affecting hundreds or thousands of businesses and millions of people? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 I went to get some blood work done and there was a sign up that there may be delays due to Global Microsoft IT problem. This will probably end up like 911 and COVID-19 being blamed for many things including prices which go directly into profits. It should only be issue for companies which use that particular firm's resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 That company should be put out of business. Their website has a statement saying they are "rebels" changing the system or some stupid ***** like that. Turns out they are just incompetent #######s. This outage affected 911 capability in many cities, including my own. Hospitals, too. There should be serious consequences. 10 hours ago, Big Turk said: This is kinda crazy how things are so interconnected that a single bad update could cause this type of widespread issue that has things ground to a halt for hours and hours and hours. Crowdstrike, a global IT security firm, pushed out a corrupted update for Windows that caused a bunch of problems and has ground many IT related things to a halt overnight and into this morning. Really scary to think if it's this easy for someone to simply release a bad update and do this, what could China or another country do to the USA if it declares war on us...and apparently they have been infiltrating our infrastructure systems for years and years now undetected. They could potentially shut down everything once they have things in place and pull the trigger on it. https://www.theverge.com/24201803/crowdstrike-microsoft-it-global-outage-airlines-banking Imagine a combined attack with a viral pandemic and a tech shutdown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Turk Posted July 20 Author Share Posted July 20 (edited) 6 hours ago, Fleezoid said: It probably was a hack-job. Why would a global IT security firm admit they've been hacked affecting hundreds or thousands of businesses and millions of people? Unlikely. Much more likely an incompetent software engineer pushed something out due to lax policies for testing changes before pushing out to production... Coming from a Senior DevOps engineer. Edited July 20 by Big Turk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 25 minutes ago, Big Turk said: Unlikely. Much more likely an incompetent software engineer pushed something out due to lax policies for testing changes before pushing out to production... Coming from a Senior DevOps engineer. Or something pushed by someone high in chain to make a required deadline. It has happened to me in past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconator Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 Yahoo today. "I'm sure glad we work in a Mac/Slack environment rather than a Windows/Teams environment." 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 Jay Rosen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinceThe70s Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 20 hours ago, Augie said: My wife got held up leaving NYC yesterday. All the flights got pushed back, and when she finally got to ATL all the shuttle trains were shut down. The original plan was not to get home at 1:00am. We had an afternoon flight out of NYC and fortunately weren't affected. What was funny was seeing all of the video monitors going through a constant reboot, login screen, blue screen of death cycle. The arrival/departure displays were fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 13 hours ago, LeGOATski said: Imagine a combined attack with a viral pandemic and a tech shutdown. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boater Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 This about sums it up: When I was active duty, the Sys Admins tested every update before they rolled them out to gen pop. I thought that was SOP. I guess not. I would go a step further: don't rely on Windows to be your Production System. Better options exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 So ironic that their name is "CrowdStrike" right? They just struck the crowd, I guess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefan66 Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Got a 6am call our networks were down across our health system and needed to get to the clinic ASAP. Needed to decide if we were canceling patients for the day or ride it out until we couldn’t. Ended up canceling long treatments as shorter ones were able to get done. Our IT had to touch every PC on the system as has been documented elsewhere. Fully up and running 1230/1:00. Makes you think how an unintentional bug like this brought down computers worldwide, what could they do if it was intentional? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuvian Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 the revolution will be analog 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Poleshifter Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 Southwest Airlines was up and running, unaffected by the Crowdstrike outage. Why? Because they were using Windows 3.1 which was not affected by the outage. Yes, a 30+ year old version of Windows. I thought that was hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinceThe70s Posted July 30 Share Posted July 30 25 minutes ago, Poleshifter said: Southwest Airlines was up and running, unaffected by the Crowdstrike outage. Why? Because they were using Windows 3.1 which was not affected by the outage. Yes, a 30+ year old version of Windows. I thought that was hilarious. Are you trolling or gullible? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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