Took down our entire emergency department as we were treating a heart attack. 911 down for our state too. Nowhere for people to be diverted to because the other nearby hospitals are down. Hard to imagine how many millions of not billions of dollars this one bad update caused.
CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
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#132I just skimmed through the news. A lot of airports, hospitals, and even governments are down! It's ironic how people are putting their eggs in one basket, trying to avoid downtime caused by malware by relying on a company that put their system down. A lot of lessons will be learned after this for sure.
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#133I don’t know Windows systems. I’ve read it’s causing Blue Screen of Death.
I take that to mean that systems can’t even boot. Right?
Can this be fixed over the air?
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#134This gem from the ABC news coverage has my mind 100% boggled: "711 has been affected by the outage … went in to buy a sandwich and a coffee and they couldn’t even open the till. People who had filled up their cars were getting stuck in the shop because they couldn’t pay." Can't even take CASH payment without the computer, what a world!
At least they'd take cash if the computer wasn't broken. That's getting quite rare in the UK.
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#135Back in the 1990s when Microsoft wanted to enter the embedded systems market there was a saying "You don't want Windows controlling your car's breaks". We now let them control a huge part of our lives. Should we let them add AI to the already unpalatable cocktail?
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#136Chances if Microsoft or Crowdstrike will be held liable for financial losses caused by this outage?
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#137High time to stop using Microsoft Windows/Azure which is full of security tech debt, that you need all these tools which themselves brick the computer
CrowdStrike Falcon has a Linux product line for 'cloud security'.
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#138Can't wait for the Kevin Fang video about this.
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#139Chances if Microsoft or Crowdstrike will be held liable for financial losses caused by this outage?
None whatsoever, their contracts with customers will limit liability to the price paid for the software/subscription. If there was open-ended liability for software failures then very little software would get written.
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#140Our company is in panic mode. 15 machines blue screened for no apparent reason and stuck in boot loop. I’m a gloating Linux user :) Also in Australia
Year of the Linux desktop at last!