Posted on 07/20/2024 8:38:40 AM PDT by marshmallow
A sloppy update to software made by US cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike has taken PCs and servers used by airlines, railways, banks, broadcasters and even medical facilities around the world offline. For anyone following US politics over the past decade or so, the company’s name should be eerily familiar.
CrowdStrike is making global headlines (and causing global headaches) this week after an update released Friday morning afflicted thousands of corporate machines running Microsoft products with the infamous blue screen of death error.
While the company has already put out a fix, the buggy update is expected to cause billions of dollars and hours in lost productivity, and experts say it may take “weeks” for businesses and governments worldwide to fully recover.
But behind the company’s reputation as a major provider of endpoint security products is the odd routineness of its name popping up in US politics.
During the 2016 US presidential election, the Clinton campaign asked none other than CrowdStrike for help investigating the hack attack against the Democratic National Committee – which had revealed embarrassing info about the party’s efforts to rig the nomination process in Mrs. Clinton’s favor.
CrowdStrike’s probe gave rise to the very first claims that Russia was behind the DNC hack, and the company provided its “forensic evidence and analysis” to the FBI, starting the ball rolling on the Russiagate conspiracy theory that Donald Trump was colluding with Russia to “steal” the election.
CrowdStrike executive Shawn Henry admitted under oath in congressional testimony in 2017 that the company had no “concrete evidence” to back up its “Russian hackers” story, but by that point it was too late, and Trump would spend virtually the entirety of his term in office dogged by the “collusion” claims.
CrowdStrike’s name also came up in the infamous 2019 phone call between Trump.......
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CROWDSTRIKE seems like a VERY CORRUPT COMPANY!!
The financial cost of this boo-boo must be enormous. Could ANY Errors & Omissions insurance possibly cover it? Or will Crowdstrike be sued out of existence by the airlines, hospitals, etc.?
Crowdstrike’s user agreement might release them from all liability from consequential damages caused by their system failures.
I thot i heard the name from somewhere. Seems like they are just commie liars benefitting from government handouts. Hope they go out of business.
I seem to remember big payments from the DNC to Crowdstrike right after Seth Rich got murdered.
Crowdstike connections to Klaus Scwab WEF
Or was that somebody else...?
maybe. But most of the people affected aren’t crowdstrike clients and therefore have no end user agreement to not sue by.
All software releases have an “as-is” clause. Basically, whatever SW you install (or have pushed) is at your risk.
This is how you can tell immediately that no SW “engineer” is anything approaching a professional. Profs are responsible for work product, but not SW. Profs can even be criminally responsible if they do something AND SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER. But, not SW “engineers”. This has been the case since DOS.
You cannot even hold the silly bastids under commercial law, such as “fit for use”.
BTW — I negotiated SW contracts for at least four large companies, including 2 in top 50. As soon as you get any SW company near making concrete guarantees with penalties and upper management type steps in (i.e., check is in the mail).
SW is the equivalent of the VAX — “believe us, we did lots of testing. You’ll be fine!”.
A most interesting development of this is the disruption of the voting machines in Maricopa County, Arizona, that are supposed to be autonomous yet this has incapacitated them also. This proves they are connected to the Internet and Crowdstrike and subject to fraud from outside sources.
Crowdstrike went from a 50 million dollar company to a 3 billion dollar company in 7 years. 7 years. All because of democrap party ties.
😂.
Trust your vendors to do what’s correct.🥸
They’re the experts.
Automate your systems updates.
Accept default settings:
Changing them is dangerous.
Put your data and apps in the cloud.
It’s safer and more robust than a commercial or dedicated data center
AI will save us all.
Wash it an update or an erase?
thanx for dusting this off!
CROWDSTRIKE seems like a VERY CORRUPT COMPANY!!
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