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    Outage 7/19

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    • WrCombsW
      WrCombs
      last edited by

      The conspiracy theorists are calling this a Big Brother breach- the outage is a hack to push us to the NEW WORLD ORDER-

      Thought it was funny - What do we actually know about this outage? I haven't looked at anything about it yet

      Happy Friday

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      • RojoLocoR
        RojoLoco @WrCombs
        last edited by

        @WrCombs Some janky Crowdstrike thing BSOD'ed a shit-tonne of windows machines, from what I read.

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        • WrCombsW
          WrCombs @RojoLoco
          last edited by

          @RojoLoco said in Outage 7/19:

          @WrCombs Some janky Crowdstrike thing BSOD'ed a shit-tonne of windows machines, from what I read.

          That's wonderful - so def not foreign hackers? lol

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          • gjacobseG
            gjacobse
            last edited by

            Crowdstrikeyour computer has been found to be non-compliant and will be blocked,…”

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            • WrCombsW
              WrCombs @gjacobse
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              @gjacobse said in Outage 7/19:

              Crowdstrikeyour computer has been found to be non-compliant and will be blocked,…”

              Y2k in 2024, 24 years after it's finally happened.

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              • ObsolesceO
                Obsolesce
                last edited by

                This is something a single test would have caught prior to releasing the update...

                You'd think more would be implementing automated testing... apparently, some do no testing whatsoever.

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                • WrCombsW
                  WrCombs @Obsolesce
                  last edited by

                  @Obsolesce said in Outage 7/19:

                  This is something a single test would have caught prior to releasing the update...

                  You'd think more would be implementing automated testing... apparently, some do no testing whatsoever.

                  Testing is overrated apparently - lol

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                  • RojoLocoR
                    RojoLoco
                    last edited by

                    Candidate for new word to add to the dictionary - Crowdstruck.

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                    • DanpD
                      Danp
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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @WrCombs
                        last edited by

                        @WrCombs It's really super minor. Companies with a clue about security and basic system design aren't really impacted. It requires running Windows on mission critical systems AND not trusting Microsoft AND choosing ClowdStrike as your MS security replacement (which CS seems fine on its own but it's a problematic category of products to start with) to end up in a "no sane IT department should arrive at this decision" point.

                        By definition, those impacted, didn't see these systems as truly critical.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Obsolesce
                          last edited by

                          @Obsolesce testing AV updates is uncommon. Compared to other kinds of things. Outside of Wall St. I've never known any shop anywhere to both use third party AV and do testing of it.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @WrCombs
                            last edited by

                            @WrCombs said in Outage 7/19:

                            @Obsolesce said in Outage 7/19:

                            This is something a single test would have caught prior to releasing the update...

                            You'd think more would be implementing automated testing... apparently, some do no testing whatsoever.

                            Testing is overrated apparently - lol

                            Imagine how hard that would be to do in a place using third party AV. It might not even be provided as an option.

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                            • IThomeboy80I
                              IThomeboy80 @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by IThomeboy80

                              @scottalanmiller Imagine that was an unassigned character that brought the whole system to a stand still. Just Saying on the other side i did get free coffee and pastry on Starbucks that day.

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                              • ObsolesceO
                                Obsolesce @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by Obsolesce

                                @scottalanmiller said in Outage 7/19:

                                @Obsolesce testing AV updates is uncommon. Compared to other kinds of things. Outside of Wall St. I've never known any shop anywhere to both use third party AV and do testing of it.

                                I meant CrowdStrike testing their own updates prior to releasing / pushing them to the public.

                                Simple automated testing, for example as part of a CI/CD pipeline, could have caught this, if no other testing. They really skipped some things on their end prior to pushing it out.

                                I don't know of many software companies that do not implement a basic functionality test prior to release. This is a 100% failure rate on Windows devices as far as I understand... something any test would have caught. If they had tested this on at leaat a single Windows device...

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                                • travisdh1T
                                  travisdh1
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                                  As one of my co-workers quipped "They're not getting any malware now!"

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