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What are the legal implications for Crowdstrike following this? Will they get sued? Will the stock plummet?
Yup, basically I’m taking the day off bc there is nothing critical I need to do, so I’m like number 5000 on the list of people, just after the guy who runs our social media (we don’t actually need a social media team)
Question: does this mean that some antivirus company could design their software to wipe out some important windows file and permanently shut down millions of computers if they so desire it?
Can anyone ELI5 why the released something like this ON FRIDAY?!?
Is this just affecting businesses? Should I be worried at all using Windows 10 just personally?
ELI5 how this could happen?
Working in IT myself, this is incomprehensible. Every common practice and process has been violated for this to even have happened, not just by CrowdStrike but especially by the customers.
Every damn backyard or garage dev stages any kind of change or patch. Multiple times. A new patch doesn’t just appear on a live / production environment.
This is exactly what must have happened here though, it sounds like some idiots had auto updates enabled and companies even rolled it out to the whole workforce without any checks.
How is this possible? Who in their right mind does not deploy updates, especially of critical security systems, to an isolated dev environment first? I just don’t get it! This should not have been able to happen at all, it was 100% avoidable by following proper procedures. I hope many IT departments in the affected companies get purged for this gross incompetence
We were vetting this company to replace Carbon Black, maybe we will just stay put for now. Holy shit what a major fuckup.
Work at amazon HQ, and everyone’s getting the blue screen of death as of last night.
The line to get it fixed in person is multiple hours because no one has admin rights perform the repair individually, and therefore need IT to fix it.
Assuming many other corporate employees are having this issue.
So as I understand it if you are the IT dude, before you get a windows update on your say..200 computer network, you isolate three computers as test computers. You ok the updates for these tree test computers only , not the rest. Leave to simmer for 2 weeks, if nothing fuckey happens, on these three computers ,,,deploy those tested updates to rest of office computers. Right?
Did this not happen? did it automaticly update the pcs without asking permission or did the IT guys just trust this company cause they are supposed to be the experts, not test and role out to everything?
Question: Is Crowdstrike a staple used program by certain industries (probably aviation related), or widely known program in general?
It is my first time hearing about it.
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