„Blue Screen of Death“-Unternehmen akzeptiert sein Schicksal

https://au.news.yahoo.com/blue-screen-death-company-accepts-031325288.html

22 comments

  1. Reading the article, CrowdStrike president struck right tone at least for me. The company will take massive hit on revenue and compensations to be be determined but it just might be enough to save the company (barely).

    Still, this might be the chance rival companies will definitely take advantage and try to wean some customers away from CrowdStrike.

    With worldwide damage so massive TOS on arbitration will be out of question.

  2. There are 2 things we can learn from the CrowdStrike outage:

    1. Having 60% of the Fortune 500 being reliant on the exact same software is something to fear, not celebrate
    2. (Apart from being tested first) Software updates should roll out to systems in batches, never all at once

    The reason the Irish Potato Famine happened was not due to disease, it was due to growing a monoculture of identical potatoes. When every single potato is the same breed, they’ll all be destroyed by a single event.

  3. “So you want me to push this file, Boss?”….poor schmuck!

  4. Any potential customer worth their salt will be touching them with a ten foot pole, and those affected will probably be letting their subscriptions expire in favour of something the rest of the enterprise world is using. This will be another McAfee.

  5. A infrastructure company should never rely on one security company. They should have different providers on different high availability servers. When you need 99.999% uptime you can’t trust anything.

  6. The article doesn’t even touch on the fact that hospitals were affected.

    The hospital I work for was one of them. I luckily am an outpatient physical therapist at my hospital. If I go a few hours without my EMR, my patients will be okay.

    But having every computer down in the inpatient areas of the hospital is a big deal. It’s not like we have paper charts anymore that we can access.

  7. Have the installed OS on some A-B partition on important systems.

  8. Interesting this is all happening to the biggest name in cyber-security against foreign interference just time for the election season.

  9. Why is Crowdstrike not in the title? It was Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike caused the world wide Windows outage. Crowdstrike will be paying out a lot of money over the next few years.

  10. Man, Microsoft has to be getting real pissed at being cited as the problem here.

    “The outage hit Australia about 3pm (AEST) after a planned Microsoft
    upgrade malfunctioned, throwing millions of people and businesses into
    chaos.”

    Like come on, Windows has had its issues, but it ain’t MS’ fault for this.

  12. What we can learn here is not to use Crowdstrike. How can you be sure it will not happen again?

  13. Crowdstrike should be investigated for monopoly at this point

  14. There are bigger systemic issues here.
    Security companies are like snake oil salesmen. They sell a product that hasn’t been proven to work, at best case scenario it does nothing, at worst case scenario it crashes your business.

    Security is achieved by design, putting antivirus will not solve it.
    Android and iphones don’t use antivirus, because they are secure by design. Maybe windows are not an appropriate OS for our modern world.

  16. So many people here talking out their asses. Vast majority of you dont know what the fuck youre talking about.

  18. CrowdStrike is all smoke and mirrors. Clearly, they’re all just a large group of morons.

  20. ‘Microsoft upgrade’ do these people do any research?

  21. *”there’s a possibility compensation could be rolled out for lost income.”*

    I guess .0000001% chance is still technically a chance, how the fuck do you even begin to calculate how much money was lost for a global outage effecting so many major companies and disparate industries? Planes are still being delayed and cancelled today from the issue Friday as everything gets put back into place, and the Thorntons gas station down the street from my house couldn’t do transactions until Saturday morning so I had to go to BP to get a water before heading to work. There may be a chance compensation for the outage happens, but that chance is vanishingly small and even if it happens it will be 1/10000th the actual cost of the outage.

  22. No idea why an Australian news outlet would bother to continue covering it – we can’t even sue people for losing our personal data. We don’t have that right.

    Absolutely nothing will happen to this company in Australia. If anything, they’ll get even more contracts.

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