Its called
How many people is this affecting?
Both articles just say “it’s bad, so bad”
Falcon Sensor is one of the most popular security products in Windows servers. Practically every large company purchases Crowdstrike services to protect their servers.
People who aren’t affected:
- Linux and Mac servers
- Private individuals and smaller businesess who have Windows machines that don’t buy CrowdStrike services.
- Companies that bothered to create proper test environments for their production servers.
People who are affected:
Companies that use Windows machines, buy Falcon Sensor from Crowdstrike, and are too stupid/cheap to have proper update policies.
In terms of numbers, we don’t know how many people are affected or how much it will cost. A lot. Globally. Flights were grounded, surgeries rescheduled, bank transfers and payments interrupted, and millions of employees couldn’t turn on their computers this morning.
proper test envs
Nah, let’s direct ship anything any vendor sends us.
“We need to allocate our available budget to profit-generating processes. This just seems like a luxury we can’t afford.”
-thousands of overpaid dipshits, yesterday.
Thank you very much
Damn this morning I wished so hard my company was in the affected group. Alas, we all still had to work.
I have not yet seen any effects in my large multinational organization.
I heard at Singapore international and a few Indian airports they had to write out all the tickets by hand.
Sounds terrible for the employees.
Oof.
Check out https://downdetector.com. It’s disrupting big business.
Is it saying each service had a few hundred complaints and then leveled out?
One of them had 7k.
But that isn’t only tracking this bsod thing right?
Correct, this is overall/all incidents.
Flights were grounded across the US for everything but southwest I think
Whoa thanks, I didn’t hear that
Wild
Yeah. It also affected banks, hospitals, retailers, distributors… someone definitely got fired. And it’s not even something that can be fixed remotely.
Oh I was wondering about that. Ha. Nice. Good foreshadowing for the next big solar flare.
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Cyanotypists love international blue screen day!
Keep installing these compulsory updates which your overlords let you postpone but not to decline. Good sheep.
“Stop installing updates to your security software and let it stagnate”
Good sheep. Updates good, no updates bad.
I wonder how many unpatched zero days anything you are running has
How many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? None, they already screwed up everything they could.
