Worldwide Network outages

Two guys of my india team texting me this morning

zurch airport down

Lorenzo’s Island Mallorca completely disconnected still.

what else we got?

 

Everything is better in the Cloud, until it rains.

 

Crowdstrike strikes back!

In my last job I battled with that software. Not surprised.

 

A case study in why mission critical systems being part of shared infrastructure is a recipe for disaster…

 

Nothing beats having your own copy of the software running on hardware you control behind your own firewall.

 

Did the Cyber Truck become self aware? Haven't we seen a few biographies about this? Terminator comes to mind.

 

Sorry about that. I tried turning the Dungeon back on and it blew a cyber gasket or something.

So, no dungeon.

 

BSOD as a service!

 

I found out about it an hour ago when customer's cc's wouldn't go thru.

 

Yup my work was affected. Id say about 80% of people cant get into their computers.
Looks like an easy Friday for me.
I do feel bad for the IT guys.

 

Easy day for the network admins. Just wait for CrowdStrike to come back online. There's not much else they can do.

 

No wonder works been slow. Turns out our servers were down all morning. Remote support requires customers to reach out to us. Can’t reach us when everything is VoIP.

 

Negative - it was a bad auto-update. If you use crowdstrike on a windows machine you have to boot each machine into safe mode individually and remove the affected file(s).

C-00000291*.sys

... or so I've been told.

 

The solution they are trying to implement is to delete and/or rename the crowstrike file.
The problem is that you need to boot the laptops in safe mode to do that, and no user has access to that (for security reasons).
So IT will have to manually do it. We have tens of thousands of employees.

*At least that is my understanding from talking to coworkers.

 

I just received an email from one of my banks telling me about it.

 

Hopefully all the systems are down at Freightliner and we have a chill day.

 

A lot of companies, like mine, have drive encryption running such as bitlocker so you can't get into safe mode and when you access the command prompt it is x:\ drive and crowdstrike isn't in the windows\drivers\systems32 directory.

It requires a drive to the office for remote workers.

 

We definitely should move to electronic ID's, mandate electric vehicles, and go cashless, immediately. What could go wrong?