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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Yes, it's apparently impacting all Windows machines running CrowdStrike. A fix has been deployed, but quite a mess nevertheless - airlines, banks, hospitals, TMT, and 911 call centers were all impacted. I had a client cancel a workshop this morning because of it.
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We are just now recovering from it. Many applications have been impacted, including at least one significant app that’s still being fixed. It started about 9 hours ago now.
 
Woo boy, hearing rumors that many impacted machines may need to be individually remediated, since they can no longer deploy the update remotely due to the error.

Just another reminder that I have the gravy IT job. Gonna be an extra long week for some folks in the field.
 
RaceBoarder said:
CrowdStrike is a 3rd party in all this? It's not a direct problem with Microsoft product?
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This is 100% CrowdStrike's mess. I have learned an awful lot about this company and situation today against my will from Threads and CNBC.

CrowdStrike is a company that provides security to computers/networked devices. They prevent bad guys from gaining access and can be used to prevent users from accessing system files.

CrowdStrikes software interacts at the kernel level with Microsoft Windows so it can do it's gatekeeping. Crowdstrike's latest update fudged up at the kernel level, which is the heart of Windows, hence the blue-screen-of-death during boot.


Another sh*tty analogy is that your gas engine car is Microsoft Windows. Crowdstrike would be a container of Heet added to your gas tank to keep the engine running well. Only this time, CrowdStrike's most recent can of Heet was actually a container of sugar. Tesla and Rivian (Mac and Linux) are unaffected.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Yes, it's apparently impacting all Windows machines running CrowdStrike. A fix has been deployed, but quite a mess nevertheless - airlines, banks, hospitals, TMT, and 911 call centers were all impacted. I had a client cancel a workshop this morning because of it.
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Even gas stations using NCR registers
 
I like how a security app that has control over the windows kernel has so little control that it was allowed to inject this BS onto the World. May Crowdstrike and all it's shareholders lose everything.
 
aparch said:
This is 100% CrowdStrike's mess. I have learned an awful lot about this company and situation today against my will from Threads and CNBC.

CrowdStrike is a company that provides security to computers/networked devices. They prevent bad guys from gaining access and can be used to prevent users from accessing system files.

CrowdStrikes software interacts at the kernel level with Microsoft Windows so it can do it's gatekeeping. Crowdstrike's latest update fudged up at the kernel level, which is the heart of Windows, hence the blue-screen-of-death during boot.


Another sh*tty analogy is that your gas engine car is Microsoft Windows. Crowdstrike would be a container of Heet added to your gas tank to keep the engine running well. Only this time, CrowdStrike's most recent can of Heet was actually a container of sugar. Tesla and Rivian (Mac and Linux) are unaffected.
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Thanks for the explanation. I know less than nothing about this stuff, so I had no clue how this was playing out other than seeing BSoD Memes all over the place, ha ha.
 
But these are only piecemeal solutions. The bigger problem is the supply chain itself for cloud computing and, by extension, cyber security services, which has left too many companies and organizations vulnerable to a single point of failure. When just three companies — Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet Inc.’s Google — dominate the market for cloud computing, one minor incident can have global ramifications.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...tmare-it-microsoft-outage-shouldn-t-be-normal

Found what I was looking for. This is the American model of capitalism now. There is no competition anywhere. We have reaped what we have sown.
 
Woof. I took my daughter to see the new Despicable Me movie in the theater. (Wife is out of town, and so on…)

Two tickets, a large popcorn, pop, a thing of candy and an Icee $51 and change at AMC in IGH. And the popcorn was probably from last night - early last night - along with no ice in all four of the dispensers. This is why I seldom go to a movie at the theater anymore. The classic movie experience just isn’t worth it anymore.
 
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