"It could have been worse, John.
It could have been a lot worse."
Posted on 07/19/2024 9:15:43 AM PDT by dhs12345
Vanity: Massive IT Outage Hits Major U.S. Hospital Chain: Microsoft Crowdstrike Glitch Forces Cancellation of All Elective Surgeries and Medical Procedures....
>> The bug didn’t crash millions of computers.
Kinda like dodging the assassin’s bullet?
For a while. But remember big customers demanded it to start with. They wanted those vulnerability fixes NOW. And they didn’t want their users to be able to override it. Now they’ll probably change their tune again. But it will change back a year or two later.
How about testing a new release on just one computer or a subset of computers and then releasing it company wide once it appears to be okay?
BTW, I am not an IT guy.
Nobody volunteers for beta testing.
Yes.
"It could have been worse, John.
It could have been a lot worse."
I haven’t seen the blue screen of death since I got rid of Windows 2000 or Windows millennium I forget the name. What up POS that was.
It sounds great, except nobody does it. That takes equipment and people and no company wants to do that. And the few that do turn into road blocks because they’re so slow to adopt. We’ve got a customer that never updates production until they tested it for 6 months, they wind up 4 versions behind and then they’re complaining they want to do X and we’re all “that’s in a version 2 up from where you are, try updating”.
Every aspect of every industry has the triangle. Fast, cheap or stable (or some other 3 conflicting goals) pick 2. And everybody really wants all 3, but that’s not possible.
there are going to be a lot of people wanting to sue that are schwab customers. Today is options expiration and we cant trade.
Options I bought yesterday on MSTR in the 65 area are now closing in on 200 and I can’t close them but they dont expire until next week.
People who bought them to expire today are going to be fuming especially if they dont have the money in the account to automatically exercise that option
Schwab can’t automatically sell that option at 2 pm because their system is down.
this is a huge trading disaster
I thought I heard this morning that they put out a software update that failed and couldn’t roll it back? I’m not sure if this is a conspiracy, it’s definitely a bit of incompetence. Plus, shame on companies for putting their businesses dependent upon external companies that they have no control over.
Many people are still confused, thinking this was caused by one of those “automatic Windows updates”. Although exceedingly annoying and most often ill-timed, this massive problem is not the result of Microsoft taking over control of a personal computer with one of their persistent Windows updates.
I highly doubt this. They are an elite cybersecurity firm and offer a cutting edge technology. I think they will be fine.
Is it a colossal screw up? - Yes Will it mean "certain death" for their company? - No
At they very least, they are too big to fail and will use their connections to weather the storm.
“ But the desperation and of the zealotry of the left of these days make me wonder.”
It is a crazy world and nothing is beyond them doing .
The next 4 months I’m going to be steaming my Bible app way more and listening to politics less.
for you schwab people I just had a trade execute so it is starting to come back.
In Pres. Trump’s impeachment for a phone call he brought up Crowdstrike, maybe because Hillary got special treatment to hand her servers containing evidence of security violations and possible foreign intel fingerprints over to Crowdstrike instead of the FBI. Supposedly Crowdstrike was trusted by the FBI. They could have scrubbed them instead.
Crowdstrike enterprise security software is considered best of breed by people I know in cybersecurity.
OTOH good security products under normal circumstances and connected crooks or foreign intelligence agents at the top wanting to sell cybersecurity tools that can look at all data on the system could both be true. Worrisome.
From the call: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6429025/Unclassified09-2019.pdf
… The· President: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole si�uation with Ukraine, they s_ay Crowdstrike ... I guess you have one of your weal thy people... The server, they say Ukraine has.it� There- are a lot. of things that went on, the· :whole situation .. I think you 1 re _surrounding yourse·lf with some of the same people. I .would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you t� ·get to the bottom of it�. As you sa� yest�rday, that whole nonsetise ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mue�le_r, an incompetent performance -, _but they. say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, ·it's very important that· you. do it if that's possible. …
An expression I’ve long employed is “you can’t be THAT bad by accident.”
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Crowdsource says it’s not a hack but an update. Whatever it is it’s a sloppy way to do it. Have they panicked over an urgent need to immediately cover their tracks, i.e., wipe the comms clean? All those who shorted the market on the planned hit are now running for cover. Why did the perp have encrypted software installed on his phones?
I’ve had similar results with server patches from Microsoft.
Too many odd things about the assassination attempt.
He had help.
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
🚨🚨🚨Did you know that the President of CrowdStrike Services and the Chief Security Officer served as the Executive Assistant Director of the FBI under the Obama-Biden administration? 🚨🚨🚨
Weird how the CrowdStrike @CrowdStrike global outage happened during President Trump’s nomination speech at the RNC Convention.
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1814320485674463707
Questions
https://x.com/wendyp4545/status/1814327398738825399
The secret service needed to delete files and needed a cover....
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