“CrowdStrike said it also plans to move to a staggered approach to releasing content updates so that not everyone receives the same update at once, and to give customers more fine-grained control over when the updates are installed.”
Hol up. So they like still get to exist? Microsoft and affected industries just gonna kinda move past this?
Haven’t seen anything from the affected major players. Obviously Crowdstrike isn’t going to say they are fucked long term, they have to act like this is just a little hiccup and move on. Lawsuits are absolutely incoming
We’ll see how fucked they are from SLA breaches/etc., and then we’ll see how many companies jump ship to an alternative. We won’t have the real fallout from this event for months or years.
Newsflash, Solarwinds still exists too. Not sure I could name a company that screwed up so big and actually paid the price.
Yeah, what was I thinking. United airlines was bankrupt and literally beating people up on their planes and still got taxpayer payouts and is around paying investors divends still today.
Two days ago my company sent out an all hands email that we’re going company wide with Crowdstrike.
Nows the time to sign up. They’ll slash prices and hopefully never fuck up this bad again.
Have we had a XaaS fuck up real, real bad, twice, yet?
I wasn’t effected but I bet a lot of admins, as pissed as they were, were thinking “I could easily fuck up this bad or worse”.
Yeah, what’s the jokey parable thing?
A CTO is at lunch when a call comes in. There’s been a huge outage, caused by a low level employee pressing the wrong button.
“Damn, you going to fire that guy?”
“Hell no, do you know how much I just spent on training him to never do that again?”(</Blah>)
$5.4 Bn so far, not including lost worker productivity or damage to brand reputations, so that’s a very conservative estimate. And Cybersecurity insurance will supposedly only cover up to 20% of that (but good luck getting even that much). What a clusterf***
And that $5,400,000,000 loss estimate is only Fortune 500 companies!
No it’s all of them because all the companies combined out side of the 500 wouldn’t even have enough net worth large enough to move the needle. So technically they may not be included but would be covered by whatever amount they rounded up to make the even 5.4b
All the CrowdStrike companies on earth minus the 500 biggest (American) ones? I have a hard time believing it’s as insignificant as you assume. I guess we’ll see…
It’s a variation on the old saw of “how much is the difference between a million and a billion? About a billion”. Once numbers become so big, it’s hard to grasp the relative sizes. That said, I’m also interested in a more comprehensive breakdown. Seeing who are impacted, how much and where.
100% correct. I wasn’t implying that I knew the figures just that the size of the Fortune 500 is used as an economic index for this reason.
Oh, finally, I have been waiting for so long.
This crowdstrike stuff seems an expensive subscription
I saw a lot of photos of crashed ad screens.
Why the hell are corps paying this much money for windows+cloudstrike for a glorified digital picture frame?? Wouldn’t be 100x cheaper to do it with some embedded stuff instead of having a full desktop computer running a full desktop os???
Yeah, an RPi or similar with a screen would be more than plenty for this, and the Pi Zero is really small. Connect that to a central Linux server with a hot backup or two (through local DNS) and you’ll have a hard time crashing it.
And the stockades?
Any word on the stockades?
George Kurtz has only crashed the world twice so he has one strike to go, I guess.
You can only fail upwards at the executive level. He went from CTO to CEO on his last global crash. What’s next? Running for President?
No risk, All rewards.
Please no
Wowowow! This is insane! 😨🤯
For the rest of history this sort of thing will mention Crowdstrike, or it might even be called a “crowdstrike.”
You can’t buy that kind of marketing
Do we actually know? We might know that Crowdstrike was the cause but we don’t actually know what went wrong and how it happened. It is an unfree proprietary closed source software, we just have to take their word for it, which for all purposes is PR in line with the fact that it is coming from a profit-driven organisation.
this is exactly the question that needs answering… the PIR is bullshit
Ok. Can we get a solar storm next? I want linux servers out this time too.
Best I can do is an xz vuln where half the Linux servers go down for maintenance.
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Pretty soon we are gonna have to start deciding if it’s safer for enterprise computers to run without AV or AMP.
Beautiful
