A wave of IT outages created massive problems around the world today hitting several industries hard. Airlines seeing thousands of flight cancellations, internal and external tech systems affecting hospital banks, stock exchanges and other institutions have also been affected. Within many operational systems, Microsoft-based computers ceased to work.
The issue was traced to Crowdstrike, a familiar tech industry name for those who remember the DNC “data breech” and the subsequent Russian conspiracy theories / accusations it spawned {GO DEEP}.
ABC NEWS – […] CrowdStrike — an American cybersecurity technology firm that provides cloud workload protection, threat intelligence and cyberattack response services — said the outage is not a due to a cyber attack; it was caused by a software issue that has been identified and a fix had been deployed.
Some systems can be fixed and back up and running immediately — but for others it “could be hours, could be a bit longer” before everything is back up and running, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz told CNBC in an on-air interview. For some customers, it will take more than rebooting systems to work through fixes.
“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted,” Kurtz said earlier Friday.
“We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website. We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels. Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers,” Kurtz said. (read more)
Interesting timing.
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Crowdstrike, the pro-Ukrainian "cybersecurity" corporation, which was purporting to provide cybersecurity to DNC while DNC emails were being hacked in May 2016, is responsible for a global tech outage that has grounded flights and businesses. h/t @hyg9384 There was a defect in…
— Stephen McIntyre (@ClimateAudit) July 19, 2024
🚨 CEO OF CROWDSTRIKE IS SUPPPPER SORRY
George Kurtz, CrowdStrike CEO:
“We’re deeply sorry for the impact that we’ve caused to customers, to travellers, to anyone affected by this.”
The massive IT outage has disrupted flights, hospitals, and TV channels.
Microsoft blames a… pic.twitter.com/Ff5RSCEGRO
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) July 19, 2024
Suspicious Cat remains, increasingly suspicious.
Just a test run.
Let the games begin!
Are you not entertained?
If you are going to be in the hospital, I would seriously consider checking the mouse print in your life insurance policy.
Thanks for asking.
I’m not only entertained, I’m more inspired and optimistic than I’ve ever been in my life.
God bless our Leader, Light Hearted Genius President Trump and his courageous Teams and Allies, not only here but all over the world.
Hopefully armchairs will do what PDJTs asking them to do for these final 110 DAYS ie become Election Victory Focused DOERS.
As he’s said countless times and continues to say, he needs each one of us to pitch in and help out.
Actually, more then a test run. More likely the planting of Spyware or other leftist controlled software
type writer
Or the purging of incriminating info?
Likely
Embrace the power of the word, “and,” lol!
Its IMPOSSIBLE to purge “incriminating info” from the internet once its been on the internet.
Fortunately, those who believe that “purging” is possible still believe The Regimes psyop lies were true.
Fortunately Team Trump knows that The Regimes been lying even if many of PDJTs supporters still do not
The spyware is already there! It’s “cybersecurity sofware” managed by a cloud service. Can you GET any more “spyware” than that?
‘Can you say backdoor, Barry?’
It’s already there – see Windows 11 – the meta data mining gold mine
I refused to install it.
Me too! Oh, they so much want me to use it — they are giving it away for free! I say, no thanks!
Assuming this a move made by Team Evil rather than a move made against Team Evil by Team Trump?
STILL over estimating Team Evil and/or under estimating Team Trump despite all that’s been happening?
To find out who’s in charge, find out who you’re not allowed to criticize. —Voltaire
Darth soros and Obama
Keep looking.
WEF Cyber Polygon – test or early? Cyber Polygon 2024 will be conducted virtually on the BI.ZONE Cyber Polygon platform from September 10-11, 2024. Additionally, a booth will also be operating within the MENA Information Security Conference (ISC) in Saudi Arabia on the same dates (September 10-11, 2024). This year’s Cyber Polygon is dedicated to simulating a sophisticated targeted attack on a tech company.
Frankly, it seems to me THEY are very dependent on the I-net, for all of their survellence and data gathering, etc.
For THEM to shut down the I-net, permanently would negatively impact THEM, far to seriously.
TEMPORARY outages, to create panic, to further a narrative,….sure.
In the big picture you’re spot on – it’s an architecture issue in terms of recovery operations. This looks like it is not a network problem. This goes all the way back to requirements – that’s what Cloudstrike is saying when it [oints at its testing rigor. What Cloudstrike will have to research is whether they themselves were subject to a hack. Testing that did not replicate every customer environment? If the customer base is large, draw your own conclusions on where cost starts to factor in.
When I worked this stuff as part of an agency team post 9/11 one priority was out-of-band communications capabilities. The primary barrier – surprise, surprise – was usually funding.
This event looks like a screw up in coding – no traps in the code. Assembly level coding is usually done to be very compact. Memory management routines can be challenging.
In the event, I’ve been out of the cybersecurity biz for some time now, but have seen some business case studies: downtime in minutes or tens of minutes can run a big company losses in the “very large” category.
Not enough info on what specific applications crashed.
Not enough info on how Cloudstrike approached the update – unless an update is code red sorta stuff or stunningly simple, updates are usually done in series. In fact, it is often at the discretion of the customer to go online and pull updates according to its maintenance schedule. To me, this is the suspicious part of all of this.
One last thought related to updates, the receiving end usually runs it’s own tests in an off-line segment before it updates operational servers – to include code integrity checks. Best practice kinda stuff.
Not enuf info.
Plus not enuf info that can be considered TRUE.
Affected entities prominent residents of the NWOs Dark Empire == Crowdstrike & Microsoft
plus DOMINION machines/election fuller
Ukraine
Blackrock.
Something wicked this way comes….and comes, and comes once more.
November 5 will arrive soon enough.
Timing is all.
Armour up.
Brother in law is stuck in San Antonio for four hours now. Trying to book a flight back to Florida.
For election day?
Will push your question to a company called old something or other.
A company famously involved with American elections that chose an ego actively revealing name meaning:
“a country that belonged in the past to the British Empire”
Accompany involved in the coup to remove PDJT and the Installation of Joe?
When one vendor controls most of the supply, badass things happen. Like China and cobalt, OPEC and oil, Taiwan and microchips, Green New Deal and Biden, WEF and Wall Street.
No, a test run would have been more localized. DEI mistake or perhaps someone not quite brave enough to be a whistle blower decided to help this to happen in order to get world wide attention on the company and the product.
Not if you’re doing a system wide gathering sweep.
Are you serious? All of the client software on those machines were reporting themselves to the Crowdstrike cloud already. They are either responsive or they are not. They have the console that tells them every machine checking in and ready to accept instructions.
Living this dream right now… GOOD TIMES… work around, work around
“The wheels on the bus go round and round…”
Sorry, I need oxygen, sunshine, and a vacation.
Don’t try to book a flight for a day or two, woo..
Ohhhh… You’re not getting me on an airplane through this, Cornbread. Maybe an Airbus, but definitely not a Boeing. LOL
Que the “Nothing To See Here” meme…
Blue wall of Death on the screens of over 1 BILLION mostly corporate computer screens ALL linked back to:
CROWDSTRIKE.
😂 😂 😂 😂
The largest IT blackout in history.
On Thursday night only techies and political junkies knew about CROWDSTRIKE.
Now e an normies will at least know enuf to DISLIKE Crowdstrike. Bigly.
Microsoft pushes yet another bad update, and computers crash causing massive disruption and loss.
Apparently people like what’s familiar, even if its cost is very high.
Linux is free and open source. It respects your autonomy and privacy. It is to the point now where it is no more difficult to operate than Windows. Most people should be on it.
http://www.mxlinux.org
Agree 100%. I have been running Linux system since 2009. Run Away M/S.
Installed Warty from 5 -1/4 floppies after a 28.8k down load. Painful.
Now an number of Linux distros are really well developed and install MUCH faster than windoze.
This wasn’t a Microsoft update. Had nothing to do with Microsoft. This was an antivirus program update from Crowdstrike that caused Microsoft systems to BSOD.
While you are correct that it was not a Microsoft update, Crowdstrike and its “updates” are written to run in Microsoft.
No, the updates run everywhere, they do not run at the OS level. There is an API that is used to access Layers 4 and below.
What Crowdstrike et al write are at its most complex Level 4, mostly Level 5.
The issue is that there likely was a latent error in the Microsoft code and the fools at Crowstrike didn’t test it.
It could be possible that by mistake, Crowdstrike programmed a rare, but possible “corner condition” that Microsoft never thought the users would be so clueless as to screw up that way. So they either didn’t test it or just never thought it was possible.
Again, this is what happens when profit takes over quality: testing goes out the window.
All of these systems become fragile:
“hey, when I do that, the system crashes”
“well just don’t do that”
Tell that to a flight director of a spacecraft half way out to Jupiter.
Or to a pilot when the glass cockpit goes dark…
Judging from their last input in the dem hack job and russian hoaxes I will go with this being intentional until shown otherwise.
From the description of the problem, this was not intentional, just a VERY cheap company, intent on maximizing profit… hence not fully testing their products.
Again, nothing unusual about this behavior.
If I wanted to truly crash the Internet and/or provide a backdoor, I would not do it this way.
Crashing things is obvious, not even hackers do it… hijacking communications and data is far more effective. Specially if the other party is unaware of it.
That was my first thought – absent the finger pointing.
Sometimes it’s really, really hard to find all the bugs or architecture errors. Yes, time to market incentivizes cutting corners. Law suits do just the opposite.
Heck, how long was the Heartbeat vulnerability/zero day deployed before it was discovered and exploited? Years.
“From the description”
Who provided “the description”?
After all that’s been revealed over the last 8 + years does trusting ANY description provided right now seem prudent or psywar savvy?
Trust the eXpErts?
Trust the sCiEnCe guys?
Trust the government?
Trust the media?
I definitely dont.
“Intentional”.
Yes.
Intended by?
My current guess, for many reasons, is those who intended for this to happen =/=Crowd strike or anyone on Team Evil.
Sometimes it’s a configuration error by the customer. Obviously not the case here.
Little known fact: one of the moon landings almost suffered a devastating crash. Module pilot forgot to power on a key guidance system.
Fortunately, as those who pay attention seen time and time again, President Trumps NWO adversaries, and ours, actually ARE stupid even if some of them have high IQs.
A computer vaccine! 😀
It is being referred to the technology covid crises. Right on time too.
Apperently, a computer Mrna vaccine, after they change the definition of computer virus to vaccine.
Lol
Yes and no: FS was likely using MS system level calls.
had to look up BSOD
What Is the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)? CrowdStrike Outage Takes Global Systems Down. (msn.com)
It’s kind of tough to describe but YOU’LL KNOW IT WHEN YOU SEE IT.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Sadly, the NSA was exceptionally generous in ‘helping’ the linux community by contributing to the compiler software used to build the executable files. Do we really think that access symbols weren’t built into the compiler and by extension into the compiled operating system files?
The spyware is built right into the firmware, such as the Intel Management Engine. Intel requires maximum security clearance for anyone involved in that project. I doubt AMD is better, though it may be. Probably there’s no way to avoid this except to build your own hardware, but at least at the OS level Linux is far better than Windows, both for security and user autonomy.
I can put a computer together but I still have to buy the motherboard, processor, and other boards if they aren’t onboard the motherboard. I don’t know anyone who makes their boards from scratch. In fact I don’t know anyone who solders repairs on their own boards anymore, it’s too easy just to buy a new one. So all that crap can be built into the motherboards now.
Yes, that was what I was trying to say.
You can still detect things.
If you build an ARM computer, you use an emulator and you can see all of that.
Even with an Intel chipset, you can still sniff the traffic and untoward behavior ( you’d see the data going back and forth over the PCI bus, for example). And you’d say: “Hey WTH is that? ”
So, honestly, stop your notions. Not doable.
Many people are building their cores nowadays…. the work is quickly shifting to super duper processors with some hardwired cores and high performance FPGAs.
So, you build your own CPU… with an FPGA.
But for most people, Linux doesn’t exist.
Even when running Android, they don’t know they’re running Linux.
Let’s talk about Apps for a minute. Forcing you to install an app into your home/mobile device runs COUNTER to the philosophy of using a Web Interface (HTML). The whole point of creating HTML was to avoid having to install device specific software.
But the idiots in IT are, well, technical morons.
I used to have this T-shirt… “I am Root, Fear Me“….. which I used to wear many times when I had to deal with IT. (*)
They’d piss their pants with me. Like the time they told me I didn’t know how email worked…. Microsoft weenies they were… so I took my Internetworking with TCP/IP by Douglas Comer, made a few copies of the chapter on email and physically held a meeting with the head of IT and the people who told me I didn’t know. ( it was a small enough company ).
Their comment had been: ” yeah we changed your email domain name, so tell the people who are trying to send you email that your email address has changed“……WTH? The entire R&D group lost our email for almost a week.
(*) I also had another t-shirt: “%rm / -fr “
I have that book 😉
Once my Windows 10 reaches EOL next year, I’m moving over. I already have an external hard drive with the latest Ubuntu.
Other ways people can test drive Linux are in a Virtual Box virtual machine right within their existing Windows, or from a USB stick without affecting the existing computer setup at all, or as a dual-boot setup leaving the existing setup intact..
The USB stick is very handy.
Running 7 in a virtualbox machine in multiple ‘puters for windoze things that I am not skilled enough to get to run in Linux.
I am only an egg.
A Liberty Laptop is more secure than Linux. Get it at Callixsolutions.io.
https://calixsolutions.io/
Remember the big computer crash of 20+ years ago that was located in Hinsdale, IL?
Google doesn’t but Aggiegirl does…
As an old co-worker of mine in the engineering department said, “The two worst things to happen to mankind are computers and composites”. He was born in the 1920s. I’m beginning to think he was right.
“I heard the have some Internet out Califonry way”-Randy Marsh-“South Park”
NONE of my Macs even burped! 🙂
Wonderful… of course your Apple stuff is not very capable… that’s why.
And it does have a unix core.
I know a number of engineers who did buy Mac… the first thing they did was to dump the OS and the GUI and run native Unix on them. The hardware used to be quite good then.
The software, other than the OS, flat out sucks… might as well dump it and run Android.
BTW, are you running software that requires a Crowdstrike interface? I doubt it… so your anecdote is a non sequitur.
At home, our Windows, Raspberries, Android and Ubuntu machines have not burped either.
My MacBook and iPhone lost the internet yesterday. I made a comment about it on this site and yesterday on GAB.
How shocking.
I am sure there is nothing untoward occurring in light of last Saturday’s events. /s
No I think they’re just screwing with all the Republicans trying to get back home from the RNC
That would be incredibly petty, but this is Crowdstrike we are talking about here.
HUH. Smacks head with palm of hand.
I have to say something. Prior to 7/13/24, I was telling my wife that the markets were not acting right. I took a few contracts short as something was telling me the big boys are positioning for something without causing the market to go down, they gave up goose last Thursday and recovered on Friday, that was the major tell for me.
Then Saturday happened. I’m also aware that, after the fact, that someone purchased 12 million “Puts” but on July 16th the said it was only 12?
The markets are down, especially today, due to uncertainty. Next week it will be different.
^^^^^^
just like that…..
I have been warning people for years about cloud services and “AI” and some just roll the eyes. Something that may seem cheaper up front can cost dearly later. There is just too much risk with offsite servers you have no control over in the “cloud”. Hopefully, this slows down all the “AI” hype that is constantly being shoved in our faces.
Quality, reliable Samsung terabyte SSDs are dirt cheap.
Build your own cloud, on one corner of your desk.
Been doing backups that way for maybe five years now.
For those who do not trust SSD reliability, spinning disk hard drives are still available.
Ha… I got 120 TB of online storage… two NAS boxes and three RAID5/USB boxes.
The machines with the RAID5/USB boxes share them over the LAN, the NASs are obviously stand alone.
Maybe they’ve been hacked by Russia. 😀
Isn’t Iran the bogey man du jour?
After all, Iran can be linked to Russia and ME terrorists so its a better evil nation for the NWO to use right now.
I’ve been running Linux (Unix, Xenix, etc.) since the 80’s. If the hardware didn’t wear out, they’d still be running today without a reboot.
I got a Pentium 4 tower, no fan, 400GB of drives, most of the tower is opened to let the heat out.
It runs my home LAN’s Apache, DHCP and a few other things.
In the 20 years I’ve had it, I think I updated Ubuntu like four times.
Of course, I have a Raspberry as back up… just in case.
BTW, I got a Raspberry 5…. 😉
I will say this as an EX IT and network security expert… when there are outages of that depth and breadth, my mind goes immediately to a planned event and easily blamed on whatever/whomever sounds good. It’s like a fire drill. It reveals weaknesses and impacts, so better planning can occur. There’s nothing like a planned outage to see how far it spreads… LOL.
Remain suspicious cat.
What about the obvious?
That book written byvthose two CCP Colonels now Generals on asymetrucal warfare includes downing the I-net of your opponents.
Or, perhaps this was the I/C, doing this as a “show of force” demonstrating they have the capability.
So many worthwhile suspects!
Here it comes folks!
No power, no communication, no water, no food…when the liquor stores dry up in South central (Los Angles) The Riots will begin….
Wait for it
In less than half an hour in the poorer parts of NYC in 1973.
Lessons:
Have analog backups. If possible.
Print out the stuff you really need.
Save key documents to flash drives.
Note which systems went down today. Probably try not to do much on those systems.
Find alternatives for between now and when the long game is over.
Fire extinguishers on hand?
Good now I don’t have to worry about all that freeze dried food I bought during the pandemic of stupidity going to waste!
I have several thousand water purification tablets and a closet full of baby wipes!
I’ve been feeding squirrels for ten years and have a monster dram!
We bought a Freeze Drier 2019. Upfront costs have paid off. I remember someone asked me if I’m one of those preppers, “If I know what’s coming and want to save money, is that a prepper?”
”I guess not!”
I really think the best return on investment these days is on food purchases, or food preps. In a year inflation will be sky high….
300 rolls of TP..
We became connoisseurs BEFORE the pandemic. My Chinese friends warned me in November…
Costco, Charmin Blue, Charmin Red, Korean, Japanese (” make your life better”, it says so ) and Hello Kitty.
We also got some Hillary Clinton rolls, but those are for show, that TP is way too abrasive.
Oh… btw, we got bidet seats in our toilets.
Totally disrupted the lab where I got blood work taken today. People without paper lab orders were sent away even though they never had them. All lab orders sent electronically from doctor to lab.
Good thing today wasn’t election day. Just imagine.
“Good thing today wasn’t election day”……….. dry run? Another reason we need paper ballots and hand counting.
That’s a good point.
I got some blood taken out three days ago, I need the results next week… hmm…
You don’t suppose they are getting ready for the up and coming elections? Remember that famous blip at 3am that switched millions of votes from Trump to Biden ? Food for thought. They are probably trying to engineer a bigger blip/switch from Trump to Biden in the November election.
We know their tricks and had better be ready to have an eye on EVERYTHING this time. Especially during the “Hoot Owl” We must have eyes in every single building associated with ballot counting . Remember it is not how many ballots received but WHO is counting the ballots!
Simple and obvious observation. Do you think the state and fed legislature s would have a clue to find out if voting machines and tabulations could be affected by this type of outage? Alright just joking. Spit a loogey!
You had me going until your third sentence.
This and on Wednesday the whole east coast was locked up with thunderstorms. I was flying Wednesday afternoon and I got rerouted from the booked KC to Philly to Charlotte. Then my connection was canceled. We sat on the tarmac for 2 hours waiting for a gate that was after a 1 hour hold in KC…
Then there were no hotels in Charlotte, and Uber was backed up over one hour ~ then refused my request “Go away”..
To me the airline system is over it’s limit. This event and the computer “Glitch” are signs of how fragile things are. It is sad, because I feel we don’t have to accept this and we can be better than this. I pray the awakening continues!
The system is very fragile because of greed.
They don’t test it right and fail to remove the single points of failure in the system.
Case in point, in Europe last month, our global roaming Verizon phones stopped working for three days. There was an “outage” of American phones… ( hint, hint.. ).
Now, me, with 25 years of internetworking experience don’t trust the bean counters… so we spent the money to get another phone to use locally with a SIM card.
So when we got locked out from our AirBnB because opening the front door, the door to the flat and the garage all required Internet connectivity ( they got rid of real keys ).. you see?
Our local phone was working so I set it as a gateway (Hot Spot) and we regained full connectivity (including test messaging).
Now, see, it cost us 170 bucks for the whole month (*) to have the backup… but, we didn’t get locked out and we could communicate with phone, text and Internet with no hickups.
But most people, have no clue.. and most Wall Streeters only see GREED.
(*) Actually the mid level Samsung phone is rather nice, I get to keep it. I holds two SIM cards AND an SD card… and it runs Android, of course. At home I can use it as a remote, etc… just remove the SIM card and use it over WiFi.
Some say Crowdstrike has a PR nightmare on their hands with the IT outage today, I disagree.
I think it is an intentional action to cover up a PR nightmare for IC to hide/delete/redirect any digital path of what took place and failed 7/13.
I don’t trust CRWD. Something is happening or happened that requires an outage to use as cover.
Shawn Henry CSO, is former FBI, and he was involved with the DNC “Russian hack” narrative which was proven the download speed was similar to use of a thumb drive- see Seth Rich.
Crooks, what a pun.
Preach.
Like you and Born Free American Woman above, my Spidey-sense is tingling. I’ll never trust anything that has anything to do with Crowdstrike… and that was true much earlier than today.
Never forget the Sheryll Atkisson hack. She was writing her story (about BHO)? and as she typed, words disappeared or such. Sean Henry involved in that!
This morning, Microsoft servers across the world displayed the dreaded “blue screen of death,” leading to mass IT outages that disrupted business, airlines and flights, healthcare providers, banks, and more. The cause: A defective update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor, a widely used cloud-based endpoint detection and prevention (EDR) software program.
CrowdStrike said its engineering team has identified the issue that caused the massive disruption to Windows-based systems: A bug in the Memory Scanning prevention policy, which was not identified during their testing stages, Callie Guenther, senior manager at Critical Start, noted in an emailed statement.
“While CrowdStrike likely performed standard regression and functionality tests, these were insufficient because they did not simulate the real-world deployment environment where the bug caused the Falcon sensor to consume 100% of a CPU core,” she wrote. This ultimately led to system performance issues.
A little odd: it’s standard practice (and common sense) in recovery operations to restore to the last known secure configuration. There are time constraints for achieving this.
COOP planning generally provides for disaster recovery failover sites.
To the degree this is cloud based, recovery should have been accomplished quickly – instantiate the last known secure virtual machine.
Back to the blackboard!
Unfortunately, what they sent out caused BSOD which, for many systems, meant hands on the keyboard to fix. That is why it is taking so long.
Except people are generally lazy these days and have no system-wide fault tolerance in place. And if they do, it’s unrehearsed.
“…did not simulate the real-world deployment environment…”
I’m sure some lawyers in the company shit some big bricks.
But this is very common…. next time they should not outsource development and testing to a well known hacking center is a Subcontinent West of The US.
Perfect timing to ground all the RNC attendees flying home the next day after the convention.
IIRC – Wasn’t Crowdstrike the outfit involved with the DNC who wouldn’t let anyone look at the DNC servers after the impossible “Russia hack” data release to Wikileaks?
R.I.P. Seth Rich
They have been talking about the DEEP STATE doing this and lo and behold it happens the day after trump accepts the Republican Presidency. The next 4 months are going to be wild. Stock up on food and water everyone.
Cleared voting machines for new ‘update’ fir new’D’ candidate…
But but but voting machines are not connected to the internet! Brad Refuseburger said so!
Reports are coming from Maricopa County, Arizona that Dominion voting machines are malfunctioning county-wide as a result of the CrowdStrike outage. Officials have long claimed that the machines are NEVER connected to the internet……
Tired of the matrix. I so long to hear the Trumpet.
I’ve seen this movie before, it’s name is “The Net”.
I remember in 2016, during the Democratic National Committee server hack, someone reported that CroudStrike was a company started by ex-FBI employees. I don’t know if the two are associated, but there is suspicion of that possibility.
Very suspicious, runs along with the apparent attempt to short sell TrumpMedia stock set up on 7/12/24 by Austin Private Wealth, LLC.
I agree with you on suspicious and I wholeheartedly agree with Martin Armstrong, when markets Chop like this, those are days I tend to either watch or walk away.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/did-someone-short-trump-media-with-advanced-knowledge-of-assassination/
Crowdstrike is a globalist solution provided to globalist corporations. It’s primary concern is consolidation of IT infrastructure across all of these customer companies for the purpose of control and power. Companies buy their solutions because they are afraid not to – because that makes their platforms ‘unsafe’ for interlinking with ‘partner’ systems on this control grid. In this case, it may actually have been a poorly written or not sufficiently tested software patch that needs to be reverted, to fix the systems infected, err affected, sorry.
When it comes to supply chains – Manhattan Associates is another globalist solution provider that purports to have quite a strong customer list. But, it’s software is highly fragile (as opposed to anti-fragile) poorly written bug ridden application. Cloud based, remotely administrated, expensive software, that – given the difficulties encountered – hard to believe that their customer list really is what they say it is.
Increasingly, it is really hard for me to say that these entities are actually distinct from one another. It’s just all the same control grid.
I work for a technology company and my customers (all automotive aftermarket) who use our ecommerce site have been down all day. We’re still waiting for our turn for the fix, but this morning all our programmers when they came in, their computers all had the blue screen of death. MS gave us a fix for that, but getting the servers connected again, its been all day, and still no end in site.
Good luck Cindyloowho… sorry this happened to you guys. Really takes the fun out of Friday.
To be honest, I don’t consider “ecommerce” real software.
I might change my mind when you folks start using interrupt drivers and ioctl…. and start down multicore, multithreaded, SMP and AMP.
The issue until then is that writing simplistic programs that are inefficient… well…
I mean, they say that the problem was a bug that ran the CPU at 100%… let me guess… someone wrote a polling interface, a never ending loop (keep running waiting for the event to happen), where an interrupt (asynchronous) interface was required ( go to sleep until the event happens).
In their development, the desired event was always there, so there was no wait… and testing it “under real world conditions” was not deemed worthwhile.
Imagine if you bought a part from your automotive aftermarket vendors that hadn’t been tested under real world conditions. Would you even accept it? Would you not require an Acceptance Test to demonstrate the part worked correctly?
In the “ecommerce application script World” they don’t… they’re the cheapest hackers in the entire World, paid by the cheapest money man you can imagine… and yet, we allow this to grow around us?
Hint, don’t install any apps in your phone/computer. Let them remember the Golden Rule.
Tony what do you think of
“The Return Innovation To Software Act
[Comments enabled]There’s a quite-serious problem with the shift we’ve seen in software over the last decade or so.
In short: You can’t buy it anymore, only get a subscription.
The “buy it” system typically worked like this: You paid for each “seat” you wished to use at once. One butt, pair of eyeballs and pair of hands, one license. Most companies let you install the software on a limited number of devices (e.g. two — since you might have a laptop and a desktop, or one computer at the office and another in your home office) but you could only use one at a time and this was enforced by having the system “check in” with some online location when in use. Over time if you tried to cheat (e.g. give your activation code to 10 people) you’d get caught and the system would lock people out.
Here’s the rub — the companies had to innovate in this model because if they didn’t you stop paying for upgrades and kept using what you had. Innovation was real and significant — Word Perfect was, well, not-so-perfect and integration between Word and Excel really did matter (never mind Powerpoint) and the rather rapid innovation that happened with Adobe products………………………..
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251700
Interesting pattern developing.
President Trump gets shot. =>
Elon Musk fully endorses him, and starts donating 45 million a month to a pro-Trump GOTV organization.
Crowdstrike systems go down =>
Elon Musk immediately scrubs Crowdstrike from Twitter / X systems.
Let’s see whether on three strikes, they’re out.
Correction.
It appears Musk is scrubbing all of his companies of Crowdstrike, as it disrupted some Tesla production.
BTW, whatever happened to Bin Talal Al Waleed’s 40 percent stake in Twitter during his stay at the Ritz in the company of Erik Prince?
😎
My wife convinced her company a few years back to stay far away from Crowdstrike. They listened and are having NO issues.
Very Smart woman my wife.
Stop rewarding bad actors. Find a way to safely do without, or find another source.
Very smart, indeed.
Lots of the federal govt is down also.
I’m going to bet they are one of Crowdstrike’s biggest customers. I know… hardly climbing out on a limb.
Went to an Ohio DVM to pay the extortion tax so I could drive myu truckette.
The couldn’t do DL renewals at all and other services were slow.
and blockchains did not miss a beat
bitcoin
solana
etherium
et al
no blockchains were down for even a nanosecond showcasing the invincibility of the technology of the future
crowdstrike and the internet as we know it, along with banks, communications, entertainment and almost any system imaginable will soon be entirely replaced by decentralized blockchain technology
crowdstrike looks like an 8-track tape in the shadow of blockchains
No worries, this is just the trial run for November 5. Nothing to see here.
This is not new.
This behavior is when PROFIT supercedes QUALITY.
Testing goes out the window.
Back in ’00, Lucent decided to upgrade the ATT5ESS telco switches in the Chicago Loop. Guess what’s in there? The Commodities Exchange and a lot of big financials.
Well, you can guess, as the updates went on the network degraded and eventually shutdown. It took Lucent as long as four days to acknowledge they’d screwed up, back out the upgrade and restore full functionality.
This is what happens when you let the lawyers get in the way ( do not acknowledge the problem until it’s obvious ) and Wall Street bankers ( outsource the whole thing overseas and minimize testing ).
My advice is simple.. once a machine has reached operating statis do NOT upgrade it… remove all automatic upgrades. If you need an upgrade, get another machine.
But then, I come from a world of soft/firmware where quality, robustness and reliability are non negotiable.
Use Linux, cinnamon mint…no more Microsoft in my life…
My work laptop is toast…..lol…
A few days ago I thought: every day is a nightmare when I wake up in the US.
The White House confirms President Biden is receiving updates on the situation.
Good, then I don’t have to worry! /massive sarc
Did his serebellum freeze up during one of his cloud uploads?
As long as we’ve got the IT Treepers weighing in. . .
What about Ghidra, NSA release?
Relevant?
Help with prevention of this sort of thing?
Or something else?
Why any company is still utilizing the services of CrowStrike in this day and age is baffling to me. It’s funny because I still see their listings on job websites.
Perhaps CrowdStrike is getting nervous about a Trump presidential inauguration in January.
Hardly … they are embedded via contract along side Microsoft, to everything US Government.
Ah yes, Dimitri Alperavich and Mr Henry.
I detest Microsoft. In my family it is known as Stupid Mode. We do not use them unless my Pages program has to send a Word formatted file.
Just a “friendly reminder” to curious cat watchers … “Crowd Strike” is under contract to the US Government, is run by ex-DHS and IC employees and was responsible for the “examination” of the Clinton Servers and laptop by DoJ /FBI as well as securing the “hacked” DNC servers back in the Obama day’s.
Somehow?? … these guys went from a “small” I/T Security Company to a major I/T Security player with TV Adds running on ALL networks.
Our “Old Friend” Microsoft is the I/T Software backbone infrastructure from everything US Government and more.
I was pretty shocked at their rapid rise to where they are today…
Crwd has a market cap of 85 Billion and that’s after today’s loss of 15 Billion.
I remember when they went public and we’re always wary of them because of S. Henry and friends.
Pray and help others
Crowdstrike is the SECOND worst name for a company. The fabled Chevy Nova is the second worst name for a car where Mitsubishi Impact was probably the worst name for a car.
The worst name for printer software is PAPERCUT.
Crowdstrike is awful unless it doesn’t call to your mind a mass shooting event such as the one in Las Vegas.
Yesterday I had just finished writing a comment on GAB about Vance and my computer went down, I mean down, frozen empty screen with just my menu bar at the top that wouldn’t do anything. I thought a new computer, and shuddered.
I shut it down, waited a few minutes and turned it back on – nothing.
Shut it down three more times – nothing.
Had a call out to my Tech grandson, waited for a call back over an hour, then he said shut it down, I’ll come and look at it later.
I tried it three hours later and it started coming back, I had no bookmarks, history, or apps just the screen on. Shut it down and restarted it and it was all back, as if nothing had happened. Grandson said he couldn’t find anything wrong. He gave me the oh, grandma look.
My iPhone had nothing either. When the computer was down.
Could that have been part of this worldwide shut down; OR could I have caused it, LOL My grandson would disown me for that comment.
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Crowdstrike turned up the temperature and divided America when they claimed, without allowing independent verification, that Russia was behind the 2016 Wikileaks.
Their co-founder funds pro-war groups like The Atlantic Council.
Congress must investigate.
https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1814356838726639780
Just a question: are there degrees of suspicion for Suspicious Cat, or is it one level of “suspicious”? Cuz things are mighty suspicious these days & Cat has to be huge by now.
Linux user here 🙂
So what?
Why is your using Linux even relevant to the problem?
I mean, at home I run Ubuntu, CentOS, Raspbian, Windows 7, 10, 11 and Android.
And my systems are robust.
But this doesn’t address the fact that Crowdstrike was too cheap to test their code under “real world conditions”.
If they indeed fell into a synchronous loop that took up 100% of the time, well… that would have happened in Unix too.
Look, back in ’95 I checked in some code on a Friday. I had a short loop in there, normally the upper bound was supposed to be either negative or 3. An integral… so I wrote the loop… but guess what, as was our habit, we used unsigned integers (UINT32) and guess what happens to a negative integral number when it gets used as unsigned?
I got called on Saturday by the test people because the machines were locked up… not crashed, just locked up running.
Yep, my code. I had to drive four hours (back and forth) to change that one line of code.
The moral of the story is that it’s easy to make such errors… it worked fine on my desktop simulation but failed in the lab under simulated real world conditions. BUT, we TESTED IT.
BTW, we didn’t have a commercial OS… we ran bare metal.
Why did you waste your time replying?
Me I thought it funny all the money in the world and they can’t make it work OR it is a test run for something malignant.
You get it…one man is not sufficient to correct the malignancy that has been going on since mid-late 1800s with local maximums of 1913 and 1917
I have been saying that since last night when at work at the hospital ALL systems went down.
“Practice run”
I will vote for the test run of something malignant to be used in the coming months say around early November.
I replied because your comment made absolutely no sense.
As I told you, I’m quite familiar with Unix… have been using since the 90s.
Your comment was absolutely irrelevant to the problem we have with monopolistic companies in the Internet providing what has become crucial features but are not regulated and as such fully driven by profit, not quality or reliable service.
There.
I did not waste my time… you might want to take that as a learning opportunity.
Tony thank you for the learning opportunity!
I shall repay your kindness by offering the same to you 😉
This isn’t a technical forum or users group. It is more of a neighbor hood pub where like minded folk get together and discuss the days events. The owners of such may wish it stay on target but as anyone who uses the interweb knows that is not how an open forum behaves. If SD wants to tightly regulate this place he could make it members only and set inviolate rules but he has not chosen to do so.
You know Vastly more about things digital than I ever will and that is OK.
It is very human to seek out and join like minded. Subgroups of the tribe as it were. My declaration would normally received similar responses thereby providing the warm sense of not being alone in a dangerous world which is important psychological need of most humans.
Linux was (I initially missed it) noted multiple times in previous page.
If you want to have a flame war feel free but it won’t be with me.
Have a day.
Informative post.
Four hours? Are you the one guy or gal on the usual 5 or 6 person response team that knows what they are doing?! The “one” called in for the real emergencies!
I believe it was his code that was tested and passed in simulation, but when installed in real service caused system error, then he self diagnosed/isolated the problem to one line of errant code{his}.
It’s all coming out in the wash.
Trust God. Fear not.
No, it was my code. The test guys were pretty good, they made a build with ONLY my release… and it failed.
Because we were making routers, it was an early internetworking company, we took our products very seriously.
Maybe it was intentional to not test it.
.
Hmmmmm
I’ve worked with sales and marketing and the project guys.
They are CHEAP to their core.
I doubt they are sober long enough to be intentional besides their next martini lunch.
Maybe because the article mentions Linux not affected.
Because the machines that are used to implement ecommerce are Windows based. No one is using Linux for most such mission critical features because they are not considered commercial enough.
So we really don’t know if the issue is with the OS. Most likely not.
Imagine… over my career I’ve gotten bug fix assignments to “fix something discovered by a vendor”… so I look into it, and find out that the vendor is a clown that did something that we told them DON’T DO THIS. Yet, the idiots go on, don’t the published instruction and, sure enough, they break it.
So it goes like this:
Customer: “When I do this it breaks”
Me: “In Chapter 14, page 3, it says NOT TO DO THIS…. so don’t do it!.. Did you test your code?”
Customer: “well…. no”
Me: “Fine, case closed, I’m going home, thanks for wasting my weekend!”
It’s quite likely that clowns at Crowdstrike hacked their code and ran into behavior of Microsoft’s OS that caused the machine to freeze. I don’t blame Microsoft… I blame the managment at Crowdstrike for not paying to test their code.
I also blame the fact that Crowdstrike is a monopoly and the fools running IT departments do not take into account single source failures….
I did not need an explanation. I was simply answering a dumb and snarky question, but thank you for those who might.
Ooops on the unsigned integer bugaboo. Your point on the real world testing is spot on. No doubt they thought that they such good coders that additional testing was not called for as their test systems always worked in the past.
What’s real sad here is that in the 90s it was harder to test these things.
Today with static source analysis, the error would pop up and you would not be able to push the code into Git.
But, static source analysis is not cheap… up front. 100K up front… unmeasurable damage caused.
You only needed to not be a crowdstrike customer.
Maybe … maybe not. Depends what came bundled with the microsoft infrastructure.
If Crowdstrike was in the bundle … Crowdstrike was active.
This was an inside job and test run.
Yep testing..1.2.3…. Testing
If you have a single microsoft based product on your computer … your much vaunted Linux O/S is owned by microsoft, literally and technically.
Wrappers, interfaces, adapters, middleware, …. make it so.
I designed systems with Linux … once the APPS were added guess what came with the ability to enable APPS?? … those microsoft based APP enablers make your machine a microsoft machine.
If these companies using Crowdstrike do not choose a better product, they get what they deserve.
When an organization such as this installs software on machines, it means they intend to control them.
But in other news Microsoft in its more recent updates to Windows 11 will contain “Total Recall” which will perform screen captures ever 5 seconds or less, capture keystrokes and provide all of that data for processing in AI.
Any company who continues to run Microsoft with this installed deserves whatever happens to them.
Is this well known to the huge contingent of non-techies?
Nope
About 3 years ago I was working on a project for a client. It was a year long deal. I had an office that was an old conference room, on site.
No one really had the direct desk phone #. Everything went through reception.
I wasn’t on deck long until the phone started ringing. It was crowdstrike cold calling directly to the number. I had fun with it it.
After about the 8th call of Fing with them, they told me they would circle back. That is a quote. I actually laughed in their face before I hung up.
That should give you a time perspective.
Turns out the number had been allocated to the owner’s office at one time. I didn’t see the owner taking those calls when it was their number,
certainly not by the time it wasn’t.
Crowdstrike, cold calling everyone and their mother. Right ahead of “your business needs to put ev chargers”, at all your location.
As if no one has a working brain cell.
But they sure have opinions, huh?
Just purchased a laptop that will only run Microsoft apps, unless you can bypass s mode. I only bought it for the free office 365 to do PowerPoint for church. Will not use it for any other purpose. Will continue using my outdated desktop for all other purposes. All laptops are compromised with this s mode.
No other options… it’s become a monopoly… it should be treated as a utility and broken up.