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Look out, he's got a gnu!
Let's be fair here though this isn't a minor system this is a multi billion dollar firm claiming to be at the forefront of cyber security
I was talking about that specific instance planetgeli was talking of.Worse than thousands of hospital systems being down simultaneously?
ah and they all run that software because it's security even though they wfhThe move to working from home probably makes this harder to recover from. Before it was common a "floor walker" could walk their way down an office fixing everyone's machine. Now everyone has to be back at an office that has a physical IT presence to get things fixed
ah and they all run that software because it's security even though they wfh
Ah, apologiesI was talking about that specific instance planetgeli was talking of.
Yes it was hot today but i don't think that was anything to do with the it outageIts warm isnt it? Clammy i would say. Sweating like a bastard.
Its all been quite an eye-opener!Anyone who runs a server on Windows 10 has already committed war crimes tbqh.
I've been fascinated for years the places windows ends up and the problems it causes as a result (updates, licencing, end of support, etc) and always wondered why that choice of OS was chosen for that particular use caseIts all been quite an eye-opener!
Didn't realise so many companies still used MS for critical systems. Where i work its all Solaris/Linux/Mac (some of the unix boxes with uptimes measured in years) - we ditched Microsoft ages ago, wouldn't dream of using it for anything critical (typing now on my ancient slackware box)...
Have to use a bitlocked Windows 11 laptop occasionally to access a customer system - it nearly ended up flying across the room a few times...
To be honest, this sounds relatively minor. Kept worse out of the news.
This news story has occurred in the middle of the summer months. The Danes have a specific phrase for this. “Agurker tid” Cucumber Time. Parliaments out. Kids are out of school. Everyone’s on holiday. Bullshit news comes out.
And people who actually have to make the repairs; others are afforded the luxury of sitting back mocking, dismissing and making light of the problemsExactly.
The kind of people who watch Sky news lap it up though.
Ordered a repeat prescription just before the outage but as of this morning it's not gone through. Luckily I was ordering a little ahead of running out so have a few days to play with
It is true. We were big McAfee customers. George Kurtz also cowrote hacking exposed series of books.This seems to be true:
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Funnily enough was just about to link this:However.
Like many in the CyberSecurity Industry Crowdstrike is a victim of its own success and chose to follow the dollar rather than what they preached. They even issued a report the same day as their update on the importance of security testing.
But I can bet, that it was aggressive deadlines and quarterly sales targets from whichever investment wankers financing them, and a general culture of quicker, more, and faster that meant that proper checks weren’t followed on software releases.
Quality suffers when greed takes hold. That’s my root cause analysis: greed.
However.
Like many in the CyberSecurity Industry Crowdstrike is a victim of its own success and chose to follow the dollar rather than what they preached. They even issued a report the same day as their update on the importance of security testing.
But I can bet, that it was aggressive deadlines and quarterly sales targets from whichever investment wankers financing them, and a general culture of quicker, more, and faster that meant that proper checks weren’t followed on software releases.
Quality suffers when greed takes hold. That’s my root cause analysis: greed.
Ah! That's probably where some of the media confusion about microsoft being responsible for the crowdstrike stuff came from.I actually think there was an MS azure outage on Thursday pm EST which got confused as being part of this.
Probably their journalists are apple fan boisSome utterly shit reporting from the Guardian. Took screengrabs but it basically says MICROSOFT IT OUTAGE LIVE!!!
If their begging pop up’s are to go by, they much prefer quantity over quality.Probably their journalists are apple fan bois![]()