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CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by lnrd »

xyst wrote: post #848

why the fuck is our critical infrastructure running on WINDOWS. Fuck the sad state of IT. CIOs and CTOs across the board need to be fired and held accountable for their shitty decisions in these industries. yes CRWD is a shitty company but seems they are a "necessity" by some stupid audit/regulatory board that oversees these industries. But at the end of the day, these CIOs/CTOs are completely fucking clueless as to…

The OS doesn't matter, the question should be why is critical infrastructure online and allowed to receive OTA updates from third parties.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by mvdtnz »

xyst wrote: post #848

why the fuck is our critical infrastructure running on WINDOWS. Fuck the sad state of IT. CIOs and CTOs across the board need to be fired and held accountable for their shitty decisions in these industries. yes CRWD is a shitty company but seems they are a "necessity" by some stupid audit/regulatory board that oversees these industries. But at the end of the day, these CIOs/CTOs are completely fucking clueless as to…

Windows is no more or less vulnerable to this class of issues than any other OS.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by xyst »

nimbius wrote: post #669

I work for a diesel truck repair facility and just locked up the doors after a 40 minute day :( . - lifts wont operate. - cant disarm the building alarms. (have been blaring nonstop...) - cranes are all locked in standby/return/err. - laser aligners are all offline. - lathe hardware runs but controllers are all down. - cant email suppliers. - phones are all down. - HVAC is also down for some reason (its getting hot i…

what are the brands of these systems?

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by fortran77 »

xyst wrote: post #848

why the fuck is our critical infrastructure running on WINDOWS. Fuck the sad state of IT. CIOs and CTOs across the board need to be fired and held accountable for their shitty decisions in these industries. yes CRWD is a shitty company but seems they are a "necessity" by some stupid audit/regulatory board that oversees these industries. But at the end of the day, these CIOs/CTOs are completely fucking clueless as to…

Windows isn’t Crowdstrike.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by keeganpoppen »

01100011 wrote: post #757

This might be a good time for folks to go back and watch the first episode of James Burke's Connections: The Trigger Effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc Interconnected systems can fail spectacularly in unforeseen ways. Strange that something so obvious is so often dismissed or overlooked.

Nassim Taleb is having a good day

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by fargle »

such stupidity. our $$$ corporate geniuses mandate multiple so-called security software which is:

- unaccountable black boxes

- of questionable, and un-auditable, quality

- requires kernel modules, drivers, LocalSystem, root access, etc.

- updates at random times with no testing

- download these updates from where? and immediately trust and run that code at high privilege. using unaccountable-black-box crypto to secure it.

- all have known patterns of bad performance, bugs, and generally poor quality

all in the name of security. let's buy multiple "solutions" and widely deploy them to protect us from one boogeyman, or at least the shiny advertisements say. while punching all sorts of serious other holes in security. why even look for a Windows ZeroDay when we can look for a McAfee or Crowdstrike zero day?

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by mensetmanusman »

Stopped by a gas station in rural Wisconsin leaving from MSP. Thank God we were on a full tank when we left, nothing was operational except the bathrooms (which is why we stopped).

I left thinking about how anti-anti-fragile our systems have become. Maybe we should force cash operations…

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by uticus »

ngneer wrote: post #562

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the discovery of the simple physical laws which underlie the complex phenomena of nature." "Th…

Agreed but have you been in the industry lately? Nobody hires assembly programmers anymore. Want money you must work at wobbly top of abstraction mountain.
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