[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It has been attributed to a bug in third party antivirus software from Crowdstrike, that is popular with corporate and government clients. The fix requires someone with admin privileges log onto each machine and remove the offending software “by hand”. Crowstrike is the company that the DNC used to “investigate” (i.e., cover up) the software hack attributed to Russia in 2016. They did not want to turn their computers over to the FBI.

[blueplum]

this article is about the MGM Resorts ransomware incident from last year :)

[logi_cal869]

“Crowstrike is the company that the DNC used to “investigate” (i.e., cover up) the software hack attributed to Russia in 2016.”

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That’s not accurate:

Crowdstrike’s findings did NOT support the DNC claims - to include Mueller (his 2019 report) and the IC in general - of a Russian hack and, on that basis - ahem - DNC refused to turn over their server to the FBI for analysis to validate the claims of a Russian hack.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/13/hidden_over_2_years_dem_cyber-firms_sworn_testimony_it_had_no_proof_of_russian_hack_of_dnc_123596.html

There is no evidence of Russian interference in the election, as the IC and democrats claimed, nor of a ‘coverup’ by Crowdstrike.

If you have evidence of a coverup by Crowdstrike, post it.

“It has been attributed to a bug in third party antivirus software from Crowdstrike”

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That, too, is inaccurate. It was not a ‘bug in software’, but a defective software update.

The update was automatically applied to computers worldwide, and the Crowdstrike ‘update’ was allegedly untested.

[mairdie]

I was at an executive committee meeting once, long ago, and heard a delightful story from a gentleman from Bell Labs while sitting in his living room decorated with a long thread carpet in which a crocodile appeared to glide.

There had been a software glitch that caused a computer on a ship to fire at another American ship. While quickly recognized, it had to be fixed. The programmer was awakened in the middle of the night, brought to an official car in his pajamas and hustled to an airport where he was put into a helicopter and winched down to a ship. He was told he HAD to fix the bug. He did, and wondered how they were going to return him home.

They explained that they weren’t. Even though he gave them the fix code, they insisted on dropping him on EVERY ship that needed the fix personally. He was a long time getting home. I don’t remember if he was still in pjs.