Crowdstrike of Russiagate fame caused "Largest IT Outage In History" Sparks Disruptions Worldwide

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    Crowdstrike company that claimed Russians hacked DNC just crashed computers world wide, you know the crew that looked at the DNC servers instead of the federales and then recanted their findings in testimony before Congress,
    As a reward for propaganda services to DNC , Crowdstrike got showered in money and contracts and Pelosi and co-invested in their stock prior to their meteoric rise. Well it seems crash might be just as meteoric.


    ''Early Friday, a global IT outage caused by an issue with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike disrupted flights, banks, retailers, stock exchanges, 911 call centers, and media outlets. Experts say this could be one of the largest IT outages in modern history.

    Bloomberg reported that CrowdStrike warned customers that its Falcon Sensor threat-monitoring product was the source of the chaos, causing Microsoft's Windows operating system to crash. There was no mention of what triggered the issue, and there were reports of disruptions in Microsoft's Azure cloud and 365 Office software.

    "We're aware of an issue affecting Windows devices due to an update from a third-party software platform," Microsoft said in a statement, adding, "We anticipate a resolution is forthcoming." ''

    Alan Woodward, professor of cybersecurity at Surrey University, told Bloomberg this global outage is "unprecedented" and warned "the economic impact will be huge."

    Australian web security consultant Troy Hunt wrote on X, "I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history."




     
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    Only the beginning, as we get closer to Nov I expect many interesting, events to pop up. Course not a single one would/will be a F/F just to keep all eyes pointed to where driven agendas, are most believable.
    The quants at work have been lamenting the flat (non-volatile) markets that's we've had over the past year or so. I'm no quant but I'm predicting they'll get their vol as we march into November.
     
    Must be an outsourced programming glitch? Was it Indian programming center or ChatGPT


    It was a content update with what looks like to be a corrupted channel file that was pushed out with the payload, from it looks like I’m assuming that someone was lazy and didn’t put the file through testing. It’s been pure calamity since this morning once I started getting emails and messages from clients in EMEA and shortly thereafter domestic clients in critical industries like healthcare.

    One of the biggest failures in the tech world for sure, impacting end user devices and servers, absolutely wild.
     
    At work with popcorn in hand. Computer is up, server is servering, and the first CC transaction of the day went right through so I think I have to stay. Dang it! I did place a Crowdstrike buy order for shits and giggles. Best case... Profits! Worst case... Loss harvesting. Which I need!
     
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    Crowdstrike subcontractors hard at work

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    My issued work computer just keeps booting from blue screen to reboot. This shit is pretty serious.

    I'll tell you what's worse than that.
    My cable is out since last night and I'm unable to watch today's airing of the Tour de France.🇨🇵🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚵‍♀️🚴🚴‍♀️🚴🚵🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚵‍♂️🚴🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴

    Now to some, this may seem unimportant. I can assure you, it isn't. These aren't mere flat, 150 mile stages. These are long, mountainous stages in the Alps. This is where the rubber really hits the road, where conditioning and time bonuses make or break the race. 😭😭


    And the scenery ain't so bad either. 🏞🌄🚲🏔



    With that said, unless it comes back on, I'll also miss Tiger 🐯🐯 missing the cut today.


    So, what am I to do?
    I could load up that new ADG 300 Win Mag brass.
    Nah.
    I could clean rifles.
    Nah.
    I could do laundry.
    Nope.
    I could vacuum.
    Nope.

    Maybe I'll just make some more coffee, or take a good power nap.
    Yeah...
     
    The irony is, crowdstrike is supposed to offer security solutions, which among other thing also means 'reliability'. It's kinda weird that an update is making so much impact considering it's affecting a lot of its customers, not a only tiny fraction. I guess the QA team was on holiday or something...
     
    Everyone talking about not releasing changes on Fridays but the last 3 companies I have worked at, only release changes on Fridays. If it's small and can be performed and/or backed out in less than 1 hour, we'll do it. Otherwise, anything larger is Friday only.

    My previous, previous job, my first week my boss says to me, "oh by the way, are you single?" I told him I was, but that he wasn't really my type. He replied, "well don't ever expect to go on a date on Friday night. Your Friday nights belongs to me now."

    At first I thought he was joking, or semi-serious, but sure enough we did either infra/systems/networks or software releases every single Friday, and it was par for the course to work until 10 or 10:30pm, and 12am was not uncommon.

    Every 6 months we would flip our active and backup sites and would wind up working the weekend until Sunday afternoon.

    It had gotten miles better by the time I left but those early days were rough.
     
    This is kind of why I keep both Linux and Windows up on some machines or a pair of machines for when either of them decides to keel over and die on me.


    ALWAYS save a backup of important files on a portable hard drive that is normally kept disconnected from online systems as well...

    Airports are getting fucked up bigtime. Flights canceled en masse. Some flights running and people are being handed handwritten boarding passes. A lot of bitching in Manhattan today because many companies' clients who were expected to fly in for conferences/presentations could not do so. This is how vulnerable a society dependent on technology is. Tech is awesome, until it decides to take a sudden nap. Before the digital era, most of Manhattan's infrastructure was powered by a vast and nearly invisible army of typists and file clerks. Entire buildings were dedicated to hallway after hallway, floor after floor of typewriter cubicles and their operators clacking away sheet after sheet while file guys sifted through walls of paper. Now, an operation that once required an entire 16 story office building to handle can be handled by 7 people, 2 commercial laser printers, 2 all-in-one machines, and a spreadsheet/scanner desk jockey. But this convenience comes with a hidden cost.
     
    Fuck crowdstrike. I lost all respect for them when they "analyzed" the DNC hack.


    As an offensive security engineer, I saw through that BS immediately. They get what they deserve...
    Hello fellow offsec practitioner.

    We also know now who is using their services for endpoint protection and monitoring, in a operational security standpoint that's not really smart.
     
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    Hello fellow offsec practitioner.

    We also know now who is using their services for endpoint protection and monitoring, in a operational security standpoint that's not really smart.
    So if you wanted to find something out ...this would be a good way to go about it?
    Along the same lines of telling different people different things to see what gets back to who?
     
    My banks ATMs are fine but online access is fucked.
    Just left the ATM here, and it was fine at my local bank.
    Everyone talking about not releasing changes on Fridays but the last 3 companies I have worked at, only release changes on Fridays. If it's small and can be performed and/or backed out in less than 1 hour, we'll do it. Otherwise, anything larger is Friday only.

    My previous, previous job, my first week my boss says to me, "oh by the way, are you single?" I told him I was, but that he wasn't really my type. He replied, "well don't ever expect to go on a date on Friday night. Your Friday nights belongs to me now."

    At first I thought he was joking, or semi-serious, but sure enough we did either infra/systems/networks or software releases every single Friday, and it was par for the course to work until 10 or 10:30pm, and 12am was not uncommon.

    Every 6 months we would flip our active and backup sites and would wind up working the weekend until Sunday afternoon.

    It had gotten miles better by the time I left but those early days were rough.
    Unless it was stupid money, I'd have found another gig immediately. Not my fault that others don't have a life away from work.
     
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    I'll tell you what's worse than that.
    My cable is out since last night and I'm unable to watch today's airing of the Tour de France.🇨🇵🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚵‍♀️🚴🚴‍♀️🚴🚵🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚵‍♂️🚴🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️🚴

    Now to some, this may seem unimportant. I can assure you, it isn't. These aren't mere flat, 150 mile stages. These are long, mountainous stages in the Alps. This is where the rubber really hits the road, where conditioning and time bonuses make or break the race. 😭😭


    And the scenery ain't so bad either. 🏞🌄🚲🏔



    With that said, unless it comes back on, I'll also miss Tiger 🐯🐯 missing the cut today.


    So, what am I to do?
    I could load up that new ADG 300 Win Mag brass.
    Nah.
    I could clean rifles.
    Nah.
    I could do laundry.
    Nope.
    I could vacuum.
    Nope.

    Maybe I'll just make some more coffee, or take a good power nap.
    Yeah...
    Welpt ,I just got done pullin a "# 6" in the garden.

    "Beer Assistant " headed town for.............well,mo beer.
    She called,said feed n seed store was up n runnin.........yeah dogs get fed tonight.
    Don't know the status of beer store........doesn't matter if she comes back empty handed........lookin at many gallons of homemade wine while sittin here shellin purplehull peas.

    Wouldn't mind seeing some bike crashes.......that always entertaining, but I'm here watching another thread, that has a pissin contest goin on.......might get epic....who knows

    Life is good

    Looks like we might get some much needed rain here,in my part of dixie.
     
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    So if you wanted to find something out ...this would be a good way to go about it?
    Along the same lines of telling different people different things to see what gets back to who?
    I meant, if you can tell who is impacted by this specific crowdstrike issue, you can now deduce what kind of ecosystem they are likely using. Later on you can tailor attacks as well to bypass the security implements. Of course you can tell otherwise, but if you publicly say to the world you have been hit, now everbody knows you are a crowdstrike user, at least for some of your IT services.
     
    So then yeah....
    If you were wanting to find out who was a crowdstrike user ...this would be a way to go about finding that out.

    I wonder how many other things this tactic could apply to.
     
    it is pretty astonishing that they could push an update without some testing first.
    oh, they tested it? bullshit, lol.
     
    Well as an It guy who was (attempted) forced to forget about Kaspersky due to FSB linkage (lol) i can only laugh at idiot IT “managers” that got swindled into crowdstrike marketing BS. Having fun motherfuckers? Owners should fire everysingle one of the IT fuckers that bought CS system as it was known its a fucking disaster waiting to happen.
     
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