Posted on 07/19/2024 9:15:43 AM PDT by dhs12345
Coincidence?
LOL
It is a big story on the financial side of the mass media.
Here is one example:
I don't know what news you're looking at, but I see it pretty much everywhere. The entire world's businesses are affected.
Just more incompetence...that’s all. Incompetence.
After all--you can't hack a computer you can't boot.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance.” - Robert Heinlein...................
We call it Nolnah’s Razor: When people (especially governmental people) hate you and your values, never attribute to Incompetence what can be attributed to Malice.
yeah, this means touching EVERY SINGLE affected endpoint.
Most general users can’t launch a PC in safe mode with networking without an authorization code that IT support might not want to give out.
And then they have to KNOW what they are doing or they’ll make it worse.
I was going to fix my wife’s laptop for her but was stopped by the ‘enter your authorization code’ step. Her company was still at Win 10 for most all endpoints, and they are crushed by this.
“I work in cybersecurity. This sort of thing doesn’t happen.”
You must work for the only IT company that has never had a deployment go wrong.
See my post above. We have a FR Variant of it which I believe to be valid.
It can happen.
I believe it was a few months ago that a trusted 2-year linux kernel submitter sabotaged the distributions. Pardon the lack of hard details, but IIRC, 10% of the distribution base subject to regular patching suffered the exploit. Corrective patches were available within ~12 hours. A related article appeared in the The Register. BTW, the take away concerned the pros & cons of Open Source where the pros outweighed the cons.
Heck, install it on a Windows PC and look for the bsod?
Looks like the failure was widespread and not selective. Then again, I don't have the full details. Widespread implies a very obvious “gross” bug. And it is not just a bug that makes the computer vulnerable. It kills the computer.
True cyber security experts tell us to not install this kind of software. Us being average folks. It installs itself in the OS at a very low level and I can see how it might bsod the computers. Norton, etc.
WELL....Crooks THREE FOREIGN ENCRYPTED ACCOUNTS....and guess what.....THEY ARE IN THE CLOUD!!!! hmmmmmmmm
Maybe this is Crowdstrike’s first DEI release. ;-)
The failing software may be just a ruse. They need the infrastructure fir the digital dollar before they can impose it.
That crash just may have been a way to update the systems to install new software, like a software update.
There are different degrees of wrong.
1 = a vulnerability that can be patched later.
10 = killing the computer.
This is probably a 9.99999.
Auric Goldfinger: "Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'."
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