rcm78
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You thought it was real?While funny, this image is fake according to Snopes.com
You thought it was real?While funny, this image is fake according to Snopes.com
You thought it was real?
I just flew into Vegas an hour ago from denver. All of the flight status monitors in Denver were bsod. All of them. Everywhere in the airport. Upon arriving in vegas, the sphere was black. I haven't seen the sphere black since they first turned it on. Had I been on an airline other than Southwest, I probably wouldn't be home right now. They seemed to be the only Airline still running, even though they were delayed.
I wonder if they were implying that because they were using such an old OS that couldn’t run Crowdstrike’s software/security drivers, they were able to stay up and running.Article is a bit misleading. It's not a Windows problem. It's Crowdstrike's drivers that are hosing machines. Modern Windows systems that don't use Crowdstrike's drivers are completely unaffected.
Have had to scramble the crew to patch CVEs on Linux systems plenty of times over the years. But today was not one of those days.
Nothing is immune from bugs.
No, of course not...that's patently obvious...I've deployed plenty of exploit/security patches over the years but never had anything remotely this disastrous occur.
On the scale of impacting the world, this is pretty unique. But I've definitely been in near company-ending outages that started with someone in the team saying, "I'll just push this to all of production at the same time now..."
Damn, that's even worse than the credit union where I financed the MINI 15 years ago still being stuck on Internet Explorer 6 on their computers (I had to log in and get them PDF copies of my timecards from the HR dept. at the college, and almost walked out to go somewhere else for the car loan over that).'A Windows version from 1992 is saving Southwest’s butt right now'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/windows-version-1992-saving-southwest-171922788.html
CrowdStrike is many orders of magnitude bigger, better resourced, and in for way way higher stakes. How could they not have discovered a flaw this catastrophic in house???
I wonder if that update guards against some very dangerous new threat(s), enough that they skipped steps to get it out there.Shit happens. The way to guard against severe consequences is to make your release rollouts gradual. Pushing an update all around the world simultaneously is galactically stupid.
Who decides to get that Crowdstrike thing on your Windows? The final user, or Microsoft?
Yes, but who decides to add it to Windows? Microsoft adds it automatically, or do you have to ask for it separately?It’s a security product. Mostly companies using it as far as know. Anti cyber attack software.