I wonder if they’ll end up doing a rename / rebrand if “ClownStrike” continues to haunt them (as it should).
If they do, I’m sure the new name will be some focus tested aberration they pay way too much for.
Sorry but some fields have no margin for error, just take the L and shut up.
Nah, this one has a margin of error. It’s just that “take down a large percentage of all computers in the world simultaneously” is quite a bit outside of that margin for a security software.
Maybe you shouldn’t have taken down half the world’s airlines.
People do tend to notice shit like that.
“Our industry is built on trust,” Sentonas said
And instead of following that statement with an apology to all the companies and people they royally fucked in the ass with their shitty business practices, they instead whined about other people pointing out what a massive, colossal, and completely preventable fuckup this was.
Good going sealing my resolve to never use crowdstrike.
Hey, they gave some people an Uber Eats coupon
A $10 UberEats voucher that most couldn’t use
When TechCrunch checked the voucher, the Uber Eats page provided an error message that said the gift card “has been canceled by the issuing party and is no longer valid.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/
So, fraud on to of everything else…? If they do some light treason, it’s a hat trick!
make 8 million computers crash
other companies say you’re trash
blame others
cry
Making millions, failing, causing global damage, then crying when people comment is quite nice and not at all hypocritical.
I am not in the knows about IT security at all, but isn’t fucking up part of any security company? You can make shitty comments all you want but who says your company isn’t the next one to fuck up?
Not wrong, but they fucked up due to incompetence, not just some random preventable accident.
From the technical details I’ve seen, just having a basic testing process/environment should have easily prevented this. That should be the bare minimum.
CrowdStrike customers ‘unhappy’ with CrowdStrike
Somebody should call them a wambulance since their fee-fees got hurt.
I do believe the number is still nine-wah-wah
Maybe you shouldn’t have CRASHED THE FUCKING PLANET
Maybe you shouldn’t have PULLED A CROWDSTRIKE
FTFY
Awww, let’s all feel bad for the rich, shitty company that has shitty quality control.
Womp womp, that’s what happens when you shut down the global economy clownstrike
I appreciated the RiskyBiz episode with the Sentinel one guys where they go over all the ways this could have been prevented if they did real testing
Crowdstrike absolutely deserves the shit they’re getting.
Oh god. Sentinel one is horrible. If they’re taking issue with your testing, you’ve really screwed the pooch
Horrible how? I’ve always thought they were pretty solid in the arena.
Their ftrace hooks caused all disk usage to be serialized, making your multi-core processor single-core when doing anything I/O bound
We saw between 500% - 800% increases in build times with their software installed
Well, that’s spectacular. What do you guys use now?
We’re still using them on machines where performance doesn’t matter
On build machines, they’re on a special VLAN and don’t have endpoint protection, but they only download from a protected mirror
I don’t see the other companies fucking up so badly though.
You don’t? Shit I see it all the time.
You see CrowdStrike level of bad all the time? Where? What? Who?
Equifax
Ok, and what else? I mean saying it happens all the time and listing one doesn’t really prove the point.
That was super bad, and bad things like this do happen. Just saying it’s all the time seems like it’s really hyperbolic.
damn i haven’t used Windows in over a decade. are y’all ok?
Rofl, like Unix OSes never have problems. Even developers, who are among the most tech savvy users, tend to drag their feet on installing updates unless forced.
i was mostly making a joke about how this absolutely is not a common problem on any platform, not to this degree. and at least when my Arch and Nix systems go down i don’t have anyone to blame but myself. sure, systems have update issues, but a kernel level meltdown that requires a safe mode rescue? that’s literally never happened to me unless it was my fault
