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Friday, July 19, 2024

A raft of global institutions - including hospitals, major banks, media outlets and airlines - have reported a mass IT outage, affecting their ability to offer services.

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-19 06:10 AM | Reply

one way to get rid of credit card debt...

and if you're broke you probably won't notice it much... since it involves things outside your reach.

#2 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-07-19 07:40 AM | Reply

Mass IT Outage

What did you say? I can't hear you.

#3 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-19 08:22 AM | Reply

I said IOIOIO IIIO IOIOIO II OOIO IO WTF OOOI

pardon my french accent

#4 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-07-19 09:34 AM | Reply

actually... I was kinda hoping this would start an Apple vs Windoze debate... haven't participated in one of those for a while.

#5 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-07-19 09:48 AM | Reply

This was a warning shot. It's only a matter of time before a software glitch or update causes mass casualties on a wide scale.

#6 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-07-19 10:08 AM | Reply

Third example of a debilitating IT issue this year and they won't do anything about it. The root cause is because companies grow so big and service so many customers that when it fails, it causes half the country to be out of order. Change Healthcare, the automotive breach, and now this. Yet companies still won't segment properly when they reach a specific number of clients on one system because it's cheaper that way.

We won't see any action to the root cause. All we will hear is how they are making steps to, in this case, better their change control and put in more checks and balances before making a change. But, since nothing is perfect, it will happen again in the future and they will still ignore the actual problem.

#7 | Posted by humtake at 2024-07-19 11:28 AM | Reply

I've been working on this since about 1:30 AM. I've gotten very familiar with several Crowdstrike engineers. I haven't followed the news and don't know the full scope but based on just what my company is seeing I won't be surprised if this is the most widespread computer outage of all time. Glad I'm not a hospital patient today.

#8 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-07-19 12:33 PM | Reply

I love the Microsoft recommendation to reboot "up to fifteen times."

#9 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-19 12:51 PM | Reply

Why did Joe Biden do this!!?!

#10 | Posted by censored at 2024-07-19 01:02 PM | Reply

Days like this make me REALLY glad I retired.

#11 | Posted by RevDarko at 2024-07-19 01:44 PM | Reply

Days like this make me think of The Chain....

www.youtube.com

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2024-07-19 02:11 PM | Reply

Foreign country or countries causing mayhem? Pre war tests?

#13 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2024-07-19 02:28 PM | Reply

Foreign country or countries causing mayhem?

#13 | POSTED BY WILDMAN62

No. Just a company having inadequate QC and deployed a faulty update.

#14 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-07-19 02:35 PM | Reply

#11-Days like this make me wish I was still 8 years old and in 1959 watching Leave it to Beaver!

#15 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2024-07-19 02:56 PM | Reply

Days like this make me wish I was still 8 years old and in 1959 watching Leave it to Beaver!

Eish! In 59? My parents wouldn't even meet for another 8 years!

#16 | Posted by RevDarko at 2024-07-19 04:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"Reboot your computer"

Ah yes, the advice that never works.

#17 | Posted by zarnon at 2024-07-20 04:53 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Eight years ago with no evidence, Crowdstrike claimed that Russia hacked the DNC. The consequences of that claim were catastrophic, leading to the fraudulent Mueller witch hunt and to the criminalization of diplomacy with Russia.

Years later, Crowdstrike's Chief Security Officer admitted that Crowdstrike had no evidence to support its claim.

#18 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-07-20 10:30 AM | Reply

Years later, Crowdstrike's Chief Security Officer admitted that Crowdstrike had no evidence to support its claim.

#18 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Lies and the lying liars who tell them.

You know it's a lie when you say outrageous things and provide no link or reference.

From Crowdstrike's website:

Did CrowdStrike have proof that Russia hacked the DNC?

Yes, and this is also supported by the U.S. Intelligence community and independent Congressional reports.

Following a comprehensive investigation that CrowdStrike detailed publicly, the company concluded in May 2016 that two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries breached the DNC network.

To reference, CrowdStrike's account of their DNC investigation, published on June 14, 2016, "CrowdStrike Services Inc., our Incident Response group, was called by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the formal governing body for the US Democratic Party, to respond to a suspected breach. We deployed our IR team and technology and immediately identified two sophisticated adversaries on the network " COZY BEAR and FANCY BEAR ... . At DNC, COZY BEAR intrusion has been identified going back to summer of 2015, while FANCY BEAR separately breached the network in April 2016."

This conclusion has most recently been supported by the Senate Intelligence Committee in April 2020 issuing a report [intelligence.senate.gov] validating the previous conclusions of the Intelligence community, published on January 6, 2017, that Russia was behind the DNC data breach.

The Senate report states on page 48:

"The Committee found that specific intelligence as well as open source assessments support the assessment that President Putin approved and directed aspects of this influence campaign."

www.crowdstrike.com

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-20 10:51 AM | Reply

They had no proof. If you look at the executive suite of crowdstrike it's a revolving door of Washington and DNC insiders, many being former FBI and CIA.

#20 | Posted by visitor_ at 2024-07-20 11:21 AM | Reply

Being the infrastructure architect at my new company... proud to say we had no impact here.

#21 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2024-07-20 11:50 AM | Reply

Why would such critical global businesses be encouraged (or permitted to put customers and country at risk with all eggs in one basket sub contractors)? I spent a project mgmt career doing phased upgrades and cutovers. Both service providers and contractors should be sued for such service affecting poor management. Such situations must support all place holders such as customers and shareholders and employees.

#22 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-20 06:52 PM | Reply

"They had no proof."

You have no proof.

Just more maga malarkey.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-07-21 12:53 AM | Reply

No one will say it but this is what happens when DEI and ESG and politics are used as a corporate guidance and screening tool.

The left and their corporate doctrine (like Budweiser and Democrat governance excels at using the absurdity of pretend instead of actual competence and sense as a priority. The fools will destroy us.

www.crowdstrike.com

#24 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-21 07:53 AM | Reply

{yawn}

#25 | Posted by YAV at 2024-07-21 09:56 AM | Reply

"Yawn" that is what Democrats always do when they pretend to run things such as Biden Harris. Dems like to be do nothing figureheads. This applies to every Democrat cabinet member who does nothing. Whether it be Mayorkas or Harris or Buddigieg. They all are incompetent but still get by because they are given special privilege because of an identity quirk. Not one works hard for Americans.

#26 | Posted by Robson at 2024-07-21 12:11 PM | Reply

*yawn*

#27 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-07-21 12:20 PM | Reply

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