Anyone Own CloudStrike Stock?

[jthomas666]

You might consider selling...

CrowdStrike's market cap plunges $12.5 billion in wake of global outage

CrowdStrike shares open down 15%.

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[colbysullivan]

I work for an MSP and thankfully none of our clients use CrowdStrike, so today is just like any other day for me. However, my wife is a nurse, and her entire system is down. So many people are calling this a "Microsoft outage" which is disingenuous at best. CrowStrike sent out an update for the driver that runs their agent software and seemingly didn't test it. They showed they effectively had the power to bring the world to its knees because of incompetence. They need to be nuked from orbit.

 

[jthomas666]

You suppose they hired some QC people from Boeing?

Microsoft got involved because they had a system-wide Azure issue shortly before CloudStrike faceplanted. But yeah, this was just a ridiculous foul up. Help desks are swamped worldwide; I heard one estimate of 5 years FTE just to get machines back up and running. Having just got my laptop back up, that sounds about right.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I read that i's estimated that over a billion computers worldwide are essentially (temporarily) bricked due to this.

What a colossal failure.

And goodness, this seems like a critical infrastructure choke point. Might need to look at diversifying this sort of software.

 

[crimsonaudio]

Haha, probably fake, but knowing SWA, could be real.

 

[jthomas666]

Haha, probably fake, but knowing SWA, could be real.

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Kinda true, actually. SouthWest's systems are ridiculously old, and so weren't impacted. I seem to remember them catching flak because they didn't use any stimulus money over the years to upgrade.

 

[Jon]

I work for and sell a competitor. My partners are making a lot of "we told you our stuff was better" calls today

 

[Jon]

I read that i's estimated that over a billion computers worldwide are essentially (temporarily) bricked due to this.

What a colossal failure.

And goodness, this seems like a critical infrastructure choke point. Might need to look at diversifying this sort of software.

it's endpoint protection software and this was essentially a definition update gone bad, definition updates are typically auto granted and not staggered as they are mostly non disruptive. Crowd strike has a lot to answer for

 

[crimsonaudio]

it's endpoint protection software and this was essentially a definition update gone bad, definition updates are typically auto granted and not staggered as they are mostly non disruptive. Crowd strike has a lot to answer for

Understood, and while I assume it would be near impossible to spoof it, it highlights a massive weak point in the infrastructure. A bad actor who either had access to one of these huge companies (or was somehow able to hijack their pushed updates) could cripple lots of industries worldwide.

 

[jthomas666]

Understood, and while I assume it would be near impossible to spoof it, it highlights a massive weak point in the infrastructure. A bad actor who either had access to one of these huge companies (or was somehow able to hijack their pushed updates) could cripple lots of industries worldwide.

It's happened. There are all manner of potential threats on the vendor side of things. I'm currently studying for my Security+ certification, and it's making me a little paranoid, to be honest.

 

[Tidewater]

I am reminded of the SWA commercials about the guy who commits the faux pas.

Inside Crowdstrike today, "Who's responsible for the new update we just put out?"

 

[DzynKingRTR]

A coworker of mine was supposed to fly to Miami today. Her flight is "delayed".

 

[Jon]

A coworker of mine was supposed to fly to Miami today. Her flight is "delayed".

I picked my niece up from the airport and drove into Alabama this morning. She took a red-eye out yesterday from the West coast and got one of the last flights out. Southwest

 

[Bamaro]

So much for AI

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Delta still having issues. 600 flights canceled this morning

 

[AUDub]

This guy gives an excellent ELI5 of what went wrong. His main claim to fame is he’s the guy that wrote the task manager.

 

[Jon]

lol

CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch

Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.

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