OT: Hurricanes Lounge XLV: Y2K Twenty-Four Years Later

[Blueline Bomber]

Anyone get caught in this Crowdstrike/Bluescreen of Death situation today?

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[Stickpucker]

We are in the shit.

 

[A Star is Burns]

Anyone get caught in this Crowdstrike/Bluescreen of Death situation today?

We had maybe 6 or 7 users out of 200 that had it and it was pretty easy to get them back on track.

 

[MinJaBen]

Yeah, we had a bunch of systems affected here. All are fine now with one exception.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Anyone get caught in this Crowdstrike/Bluescreen of Death situation today?

I was at LaGuardia. Am finally on a plane, 5 hours late.

Here's a pic I took of the IT guys with the crash cart at our gate:

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Anyone get caught in this Crowdstrike/Bluescreen of Death situation today?

As a side note, I was at Watkins Glen International Race Track for the IMSA 6 hours at the Glen. George Kurtz (Crowdstrike CEO) was driving one of the cars in the race and basically punted a car in front of him into the wall.

Not sure it was George's fault though as the other guy (in a lower class) seemed to be purposely blocking him and when they have 4 classes of cars, usually the slower cars don't block the faster cars.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

I’m on vacation in the Caribbean watching all the group Teams messages coming through about how all my colleagues machines are bricked.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Anyone get caught in this Crowdstrike/Bluescreen of Death situation today?

My son was supposed to come visit and his flight was cancelled. Some apps at work are out as well.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

I’m on vacation in the Caribbean watching all the group Teams messages coming through about how all my colleagues machines are bricked.

Now ask them how many were actually bricked and how many just took the opportunity to not work for a day. Because I know a lot of people just found a picture of a blue-screened PC online, sent it to their boss and said “Whelp, guess I got caught in this mess too!”

 

[Unsustainable]

It's rare I have to call the police while working, but a naked person walking up the interstate seemed like a good reason to.

 

[Derailed75]

Anyone get caught in this Crowdstrike/Bluescreen of Death situation today?

Well I work in electronic security 99 percent of new system communicate through cell data and or the internet so ya it was a fun day lol. Can't tell you how many time I had to explain what "global issue" meant

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

After spending 34 years in the tech industry, today makes me glad I'm retired.

Although I think Hank is retired as well and still had to deal with it at the airport.

 

[cptjeff]

I’m on vacation in the Caribbean watching all the group Teams messages coming through about how all my colleagues machines are bricked.

Did you put a picture of your cocktail with the beach in the background in the chat?

 

[SoupNazi]

It's rare I have to call the police while working, but a naked person walking up the interstate seemed like a good reason to.

@hangman005 was in your neck of the woods today?

 

[Navin R Slavin]

After spending 34 years in the tech industry, today makes me glad I'm retired.

Although I think Hank is retired as well and still had to deal with it at the airport.

Well, I had nothing better to do, so I learned all about it as I sat watching our flight time slip later and later.

The basic problem is that no one, ever, should allow a third party vendor to update the OS kernel directly without first testing the update in a staging environment. It's absurdly bad practice, especially for mission critical environments.

Unfortunately, Crowdstrike succeeded in not only convincing enterprise customers the world over that they could be trusted with this power, but also scaring those same customers into thinking that if they ever got a virus and didn't have Crowdstrike, they'd be fired for it. So they basically managed to achieve regulatory capture for their shitty rootkit kernel extension.

On top of all that, it turns out that there have been suspiciously familiar kernel panics around Falcon for the past couple of months in Linux land -- but because Linux admins as a rule don't just let third parties roll shit out randomly to their systems, and because no one really gives a shit about Crowdstrike on the Linux side anyway because it's basically a checkbox and not actually useful, no one ever noticed and raised the alarm on the Windows side.

The fact that a Crowdstrike kernel developer could introduce a memory paging error that completely breaks the boot loader, and have that error go through AN ENTIRE QA ORGANIZATION without being caught, not once, but multiple times on multiple OSes, and then be deployed, not in any kind of rolling green/blue deployment, but ALL AT ONCE, ALL OVER THE GLOBE, ON A FRIDAY, is an *absolute f***ing travesty*. Astonishing incompetence.

The CEO, the CIO, and the entire engineering management team should be sacked. I'm shocked that their stock only took an 11% haircut.

Some idiots on the street are saying "Crowdstrike is a great buy opportunity!" Maybe, but only if they clean house. They did years of damage to their brand today.

People will die because of this.

 

[Unhinged Finn]

Well, I had nothing better to do, so I learned all about it as I sat watching our flight time slip later and later.

The basic problem is that no one, ever, should allow a third party vendor to update the OS kernel directly without first testing the update in a staging environment. It's absurdly bad practice, especially for mission critical environments.

Unfortunately, Crowdstrike succeeded in not only convincing enterprise customers the world over that they could be trusted with this power, but also scaring those same customers into thinking that if they ever got a virus and didn't have Crowdstrike, they'd be fired for it. So they basically managed to achieve regulatory capture for their shitty rootkit kernel extension.

On top of all that, it turns out that there have been suspiciously familiar kernel panics around Falcon for the past couple of months in Linux land -- but because Linux admins as a rule don't just let third parties roll shit out randomly to their systems, and because no one really gives a shit about Crowdstrike on the Linux side anyway because it's basically a checkbox and not actually useful, no one ever noticed and raised the alarm on the Windows side.

The fact that a Crowdstrike kernel developer could introduce a memory paging error that completely breaks the boot loader, and have that error go through AN ENTIRE QA ORGANIZATION without being caught, not once, but multiple times on multiple OSes, and then be deployed, not in any kind of rolling green/blue deployment, but ALL AT ONCE, ALL OVER THE GLOBE, ON A FRIDAY, is an *absolute f***ing travesty*. Astonishing incompetence.

The CEO, the CIO, and the entire engineering management team should be sacked. I'm shocked that their stock only took an 11% haircut.

Some idiots on the street are saying "Crowdstrike is a great buy opportunity!" Maybe, but only if they clean house. They did years of damage to their brand today.

People will die because of this.

So basically they pulled a Costa Concordia with computers.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

So just in the past week alone, a former president (and current nominee for president) faces an assassination attempt, the current president catches a disease that ravaged the planet four years ago, and a good portion of the global infrastructure is shut off temporarily.

What the f***?

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

So just in the past week alone, a former president (and current nominee for president) faces an assassination attempt, the current president catches a disease that ravaged the planet four years ago, and a good portion of the global infrastructure is shut off temporarily.

What the f***?

As somebody else said in the last thread (I think), I'm tired of living in interesting times.

 

[Stickpucker]

Well, I had nothing better to do, so I learned all about it as I sat watching our flight time slip later and later.

The basic problem is that no one, ever, should allow a third party vendor to update the OS kernel directly without first testing the update in a staging environment. It's absurdly bad practice, especially for mission critical environments.

Unfortunately, Crowdstrike succeeded in not only convincing enterprise customers the world over that they could be trusted with this power, but also scaring those same customers into thinking that if they ever got a virus and didn't have Crowdstrike, they'd be fired for it. So they basically managed to achieve regulatory capture for their shitty rootkit kernel extension.

On top of all that, it turns out that there have been suspiciously familiar kernel panics around Falcon for the past couple of months in Linux land -- but because Linux admins as a rule don't just let third parties roll shit out randomly to their systems, and because no one really gives a shit about Crowdstrike on the Linux side anyway because it's basically a checkbox and not actually useful, no one ever noticed and raised the alarm on the Windows side.

The fact that a Crowdstrike kernel developer could introduce a memory paging error that completely breaks the boot loader, and have that error go through AN ENTIRE QA ORGANIZATION without being caught, not once, but multiple times on multiple OSes, and then be deployed, not in any kind of rolling green/blue deployment, but ALL AT ONCE, ALL OVER THE GLOBE, ON A FRIDAY, is an *absolute f***ing travesty*. Astonishing incompetence.

The CEO, the CIO, and the entire engineering management team should be sacked. I'm shocked that their stock only took an 11% haircut.

Some idiots on the street are saying "Crowdstrike is a great buy opportunity!" Maybe, but only if they clean house. They did years of damage to their brand today.

People will die because of this.

I work at a fortune 100 company and the sad reality is a point you made somewhere I'm too tired to bold....but audit and security compliance are given tons of power in large enterprises and use that power to scare executives with little knowledge into checking boxes they feel are a cya.

And how these dum dums deployed this...

they didn't even do the most cursory testing.

I don't know how the stock isn't in the shitter.

Off with their heads!!

 

[Borsig]

So just in the past week alone, a former president (and current nominee for president) faces an assassination attempt, the current president catches a disease that ravaged the planet four years ago, and a good portion of the global infrastructure is shut off temporarily.

What the f***?

 

[DaveG]

Anyone get caught in this Crowdstrike/Bluescreen of Death situation today?

woke up to about 300 teams messages yesterday and just laughed and said "f*** it" since it was my day off, then went out to pick up a new Xbox and the NCAA game.

 

[Negan4Coach]

I just wonder what the late, great Hannibal Lector would think about the vulnerability of our technological infrastructure…

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

As if these times couldn't get any stranger, 2024 says "hold my beer".

 

[Unsustainable]

As if these times couldn't get any stranger, 2024 says "hold my beer".

Unburdened for sure.

 

[MinJaBen]

Unburdened for sure.

Is that your next username?