Laut Microsoft waren 8,5 Millionen Windows-Geräte vom CrowdStrike-IT-Ausfall betroffen
July 20, 2024
Laut Microsoft waren 8,5 Millionen Windows-Geräte vom CrowdStrike-IT-Ausfall betroffen
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpe3zgznwjno
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Anyone who would use a Windows computer for a mission critical project should have been fired many years ago.
When are we going to learn how much this outage cost?
would this have stopped stuxnet
WannaCry *only* infected 300,000 systems back in 2017…
More.
I know of at least *one* customer who had 300,000 devices affected.
As someone who got stuck in the airport without near hotels and car rentals available, I’m qualified to say they fucked it up beyond imagination. It was like a apocalyptic movie that kept getting worse, all the monitors were showing the BSOD, all airport employees had this terrified look on their faces and everything was being written on paper because their computers were bricked.
That seems low.
I won’t get into details but FWIW I met with someone in my field from Crowdstrike some months ago. They were a condescending, know-it-all prick.
And this is by Bay Area standards. Just from looking at this mess, it wouldn’t surprise me if the rest of the company is similar.
Crowdstrike better compensates the affected companies and change their practice if they want to stay relevant. They had no clue their update caused the outage. Microsoft had to tell them. So no testing was done on their side. Even more crucial, their updates are forced, not allowing their customers to test them first. Serious IT companies don’t act that way. I expect their stock to drop much more.
8.5 million windows devices not used to surf Facebook all day – fixed that for you
The update was a driver filled with null characters, so it crashed the machines and locked them in an endless blue screen cycle. The only fix so far is to boot into safe mode and delete the problem driver, so that means people doing this either by remote console or going to the data center and standing in front of the machine. If Bit Locker is enabled then it becomes more time-consuming. This was not an MS issue it was a lack of testing and process from CloudStrike which has broken Windows systems,
Yesterday it was a billion. Today it was 8.5 million. That’s 0.85% of a billion. How’d the media get these numbers so wrong?
Mine wasn’t one of them…..such a waste!
Alot of happy staff when this happened lol
No way it was only 8 mil
I just want to see an interview with the guy who pushed the button.
19 comments
Anyone who would use a Windows computer for a mission critical project should have been fired many years ago.
When are we going to learn how much this outage cost?
would this have stopped stuxnet
WannaCry *only* infected 300,000 systems back in 2017…
More.
I know of at least *one* customer who had 300,000 devices affected.
As someone who got stuck in the airport without near hotels and car rentals available, I’m qualified to say they fucked it up beyond imagination.
It was like a apocalyptic movie that kept getting worse, all the monitors were showing the BSOD, all airport employees had this terrified look on their faces and everything was being written on paper because their computers were bricked.
That seems low.
I won’t get into details but FWIW I met with someone in my field from Crowdstrike some months ago. They were a condescending, know-it-all prick.
And this is by Bay Area standards. Just from looking at this mess, it wouldn’t surprise me if the rest of the company is similar.
Crowdstrike better compensates the affected companies and change their practice if they want to stay relevant.
They had no clue their update caused the outage. Microsoft had to tell them. So no testing was done on their side.
Even more crucial, their updates are forced, not allowing their customers to test them first.
Serious IT companies don’t act that way. I expect their stock to drop much more.
8.5 million windows devices not used to surf Facebook all day – fixed that for you
The update was a driver filled with null characters, so it crashed the machines and locked them in an endless blue screen cycle. The only fix so far is to boot into safe mode and delete the problem driver, so that means people doing this either by remote console or going to the data center and standing in front of the machine. If Bit Locker is enabled then it becomes more time-consuming. This was not an MS issue it was a lack of testing and process from CloudStrike which has broken Windows systems,
Yesterday it was a billion. Today it was 8.5 million. That’s 0.85% of a billion. How’d the media get these numbers so wrong?
Mine wasn’t one of them…..such a waste!
Alot of happy staff when this happened lol
No way it was only 8 mil
I just want to see an interview with the guy who pushed the button.
Y2K is 24 years late what gives?
So what’s the compensation for global damages.
Who’s going to pay for all the damages?