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

[Big Phish]

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...

Roidie’s on high end bikes. Okay I got it. Haven’t watched it in long time since they didn’t come clean.

 

[Gunfighter14e2]

Basket & egg issues, never fail to impress.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

Probally a patch update to turn all the R votes to D in voting machines.

They know they cant win in fair elections so need to cheat hard.

 

[Mike Casselton]

Roidie’s on high end bikes. Okay I got it. Haven’t watched it in long time since they didn’t come clean.

It was a lot more fun to watch when they were doped up.
Same with baseball and football.

 

[Lug Nut]

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.

I knew I should have bought night vison stuff….

 

[theLBC]

 

[eprom]

That's no like it's the first time an update cause major outages on a worldwide scale....

A lot of companies are using crappy security software (e,g Sophos security suite). I'm the CEO of a security firm, and I can tell from first-hand experience that most IT people who are supposed to be a least knowledgeable of a few technical stuff (such as CTO/CSO), are only buying security solution if the brochures are looking cool.

They cannot care less if DEI is involved in the development process or If thousand of H-1B visa chimps are coding like crazy. They want what the cool kids are using or selling, and the crowdstrike folk are pretty goods in the marketing realm.

 

[Mr.BR]

it is pretty astonishing that they could push an update without some testing first.
oh, they tested it? bullshit, lol.

 

[748rpilot]

Just left the ATM here, and it was fine at my local bank.

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.

Only thing stupid about the money was me working there for it, for 6 years. But it was a leg-up to a much better job, and I made some good friends I still see. Now I'm doing better though, quite so.

 

[HPIguy]

Only thing stupid about the money was me working there for it, for 6 years. But it was a leg-up to a much better job, and I made some good friends I still see. Now I'm doing better though, quite so.

Good to hear.

 

[Im2bent]

Wait does this mean I won't be able to whack it to only fans?

 

[NoDopes]

it is pretty astonishing that they could push an update without some testing first.
oh, they tested it? bullshit, lol.

What kind of fucking moron sends it out to every computer on the planet under your control at the same time?

Use a beta test group for fucks sake.

 

[Milf Dots]

Abacuses and American Cash Dollars, or GTFO.

 

[Milf Dots]

It was a lot more fun to watch when they were doped up.
Same with baseball and football.

Yeah, the old days were great with all the battles between the top sprinters, the top climbers, but then we saw a seated climbing stage with Cancellara manipulating what was likely a control button for a battery powered motor hidden in his frame, and it all went to shit. And Lance is a POS sociopath cheater too.

It was awesome to see the Manx Missile break Eddy's record this year!

As an old crit monger it breaks my heart to have witnessed the collapse of the sport here in the U.S., but it is what it is.

 

[Camelfilter]

Yeah its been a day for tech people. I am not surprised this happened tbh.

This is interesting.
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Hmm...wasn't it Bkackrock that shorted Trump just before the assassination attempt. Then the short was supposedly "an error".

What a better way to clean up "an error" than with a global computer patch? Look for crowdstrike folk/folks with magical new fortunes / or suicides with 2 bullets to there heads...

 

[Rocketvapor]

Didn't seem to have any impact down here in Louisiana.
Of course I don't use the Win365 online version.
Checked bank, Paypal, Amazon.
Watched Netflix while this was going on, wife went on a shopping spree around 11AM central, till about 2:30PM and had no trouble spending using a debit card from my bank.

 

[Crewdog135]

Trying to buy a new scope today. Damn it. Bank's system is all jacked up

 

[theLBC]

 

[Emerson0311]

Yeah its been a day for tech people. I am not surprised this happened tbh.

This is interesting.
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Perhaps some inside fuckery. I was wondering when the gloves were going to come off.

 

[748rpilot]

2nd hand, but I have heard from someone that does real estate that closings for today have been cancelled because major banks cannot transfer / wire money.

 

[lariat]

Hmm...wasn't it Bkackrock that shorted Trump just before the assassination attempt. Then the short was supposedly "an error".

What a better way to clean up "an error" than with a global computer patch? Look for crowdstrike folk/folks with magical new fortunes / or suicides with 2 bullets to there heads...

Can you provide details that it was indeed Blackrock? Genuinely curious.

 

[slowworm]

What kind of fucking moron sends it out to every computer on the planet under your control at the same time?

Use a beta test group for fucks sake.

^^^ This.

My employer uses crowdstrike and we are still up and running because we test every update before pushing it out.

Just checked and we are still up and running because we do that. I took today off to go fishing and came back to this mess. Since I work in the cyber field the conversations on Monday will be epic!

 

[Milf Dots]

Too many IT directors are DEI hires who are consumed with their left wing agendas.

 

[Camelfilter]

Can you provide details that it was indeed Blackrock? Genuinely curious.

No, just from the rumors. Now after this "upgrade" there will likely be a bunch of stuff no longer online.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

 

[JoeZ]

My son (an avid gamer) told me this conspiracy. Trump avoids a headshot because he is using a hit-box hack. Deep state tries to patch it out but but their boi Crowdstrike screws it and here we are.


Seriously though, what businesses or websites are still out? A traditional Catholic website that I regularly view is still out. It's just those darn RTC's you know.