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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…
We were trialing CrowdStrike and about to purchase next week. If their rep doesn't offer us at least half off, we are going with Sentinel One which was half the price of CS already.
The incompetence that allowed this is baffling to me. I assumed with their billions of dollars they'd have tiers of virtual systems to test updates with.
I remember this happening once with Sophos where it gobbled up Windows system files. If you had set to Delete instead of Quarantine, you were toast.
The irony is dawning on me that for much of the recent computing era we've developed defenses against massive endpoint outages (worms, etc.) and one of them is now inadvertently reproducing the exact problem we had mostly eradicated.
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…
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.
Local emergency services were basically nonfunctioning for better part of the day along with the heat wave and various events, seems like a number of deaths (locally at least, specific to what I know for my mid sized US city) will be indirectly attributable to this.
As something of a friendly reminder, it was Microsoft this time, but it's a matter of "when" not "if" till every other OS with that flavor of security theatre is similarly afflicted (and it happens much more frequently when you consider the normal consequences of a company owning the device you paid for -- kicked out of email forever, ads intruding into basic system functions, paid-in-full device eventually requires a subscription, ...). Be cautious with automatic updates.