Computer glitch worldwide

[flying belgian]

It is affecting planes and trains and banks. Are you guys with late model John Deeres able to get them started this morning?

 

[Charlie M]

My 40's and 50's era tractors weren't affected.

 

[buickanddeere]

Always keep cash on hand

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

It is affecting planes and trains and banks. Are you guys with late model John Deeres able to get them started this morning?

Fired right up.

My work laptop, not so much. It has the "Crowdstrike" software that is causing the problem.

The purpose of "Crowdstrike" is to prevent stuff exactly like this from happening. Supposed to protect the computers from the bad guys. So in effect, the good guys did far more damage than the bad guys ever intended on doing.

 

[GChief]

All my web-based electronics operated as normal.

Mark me safe from the 24 yr late Y2K

 

[bc]

Fired right up.

My work laptop, not so much. It has the "Crowdstrike" software that is causing the problem.

The purpose of "Crowdstrike" is to prevent stuff exactly like this from happening. Supposed to protect the computers from the bad guys. So in effect, the good guys did far more damage than the bad guys ever intended on doing.

Yep. Crowdstrike stock is down over 10 percent.

 

[Jim in LA]

Now who would want to go and do some dirty,rotten thing like that?

 

[GChief]

Yep. Crowdstrike stock is down over 10 percent.

I know people waiting to pounce when it hits its low...

 

[DoubleO7]

I have developed the cynical view that anti-virus program peddlers are the very ones creating the viruses.

A great business plan to perpetuate your business, no longer dependent on a greasy haired malcontent living in his mother's basement to create the viruses. And in creating the virus, you know what the fix to block or remove them is so you have the cure to peddle.

 

[Buckhammer]

I went to the woods this morning and cut some fire wood. My JD 520 fired right up without hesitation, my gas powered log splitter and my Jonsered 2166 chainsaw ran flawlessly. I later went to town to run a couple errands and both establishments readily took my cash as payment.

 

[bc]

I know people waiting to pounce when it hits its low...

Well if they know what the low is going to be, then maybe they should handle my investments.

 

[zuhnc]

Nothing amiss here. Computer (Linux) worked as normal, Starlink up and running, golf at Royal Troon, Scotland a hoot! 25 MPH winds play havoc with a golf ball. zuhnc

 

[MarkB_MI]

This is what happens when you have a very homogeneous infrastructure, where everybody is using exactly the same hardware/software/whatever. Consider the Irish potato famine: Everybody in Ireland lived on potatoes, and when the potato harvest failed a million people died.

Today's computer infrastructure is reliant on a fairly small number of hardware and software companies. Intel, Microsoft, Cisco each have huge market shares. That makes their products very attractive to attackers, and those products are far from perfect. Which means that company IT departments would be negligent if they didn't use third-party products to secure their infrastructure. Crowdstrike is a company that has become an essential IT security provider over the past decade, having come to prominence investigating various computer attacks, include the 2016 Russian attack on the DNC. So now, not only are most companies running the same hardware and software, they're relying on the same company to secure it. That company ships one bad line of code and it's a global disaster.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

This is what happens when you have a very homogeneous infrastructure, where everybody is using exactly the same hardware/software/whatever. Consider the Irish potato famine: Everybody in Ireland lived on potatoes, and when the potato harvest failed a million people died.

Today's computer infrastructure is reliant on a fairly small number of hardware and software companies. Intel, Microsoft, Cisco each have huge market shares. That makes their products very attractive to attackers, and those products are far from perfect. Which means that company IT departments would be negligent if they didn't use third-party products to secure their infrastructure. Crowdstrike is a company that has become an essential IT security provider over the past decade, having come to prominence investigating various computer attacks, include the 2016 Russian attack on the DNC. So now, not only are most companies running the same hardware and software, they're relying on the same company to secure it. That company ships one bad line of code and it's a global disaster.

Mark,
I drove to Fort Wayne to buy a Cadillac. GM had a glitch in their computers. Was I happy driving 3 hours each way and not getting the deal done> Heck No I was Issed.
Then I called a Caddy dealer east of Dayton. They had the exact same used certified car. I asked if GM had the glitch fixed? No but we know how to sell cars the old school way, pencil and paper. The pencil and paper way took about the same time as as driving to Dayton. It made for a long day, but they got he job done.

My chromebook doesn't seem to be bothered with the glitch. Why?

 

[MarkB_MI]

Mark,
I drove to Fort Wayne to buy a Cadillac. GM had a glitch in their computers. Was I happy driving 3 hours each way and not getting the deal done> Heck No I was Issed.
Then I called a Caddy dealer east of Dayton. They had the exact same used certified car. I asked if GM had the glitch fixed? No but we know how to sell cars the old school way, pencil and paper. The pencil and paper way took about the same time as as driving to Dayton. It made for a long day, but they got he job done.

My chromebook doesn't seem to be bothered with the glitch. Why?

I asked if GM had the glitch fixed? No but we know how to sell cars the old school way, pencil and paper.

I'm sure that once the system was back on-line, they re-entered everything they and done on paper in the computer system.

My chromebook doesn't seem to be bothered with the glitch. Why?

The bug is specific to Crowdstrike software running on Windows computers. Your Chromebook doesn't run either Crowdstrike or Windows. More importantly, Google doesn't rely on any Microsoft software in its cloud, which is where your Chromebook's data is stored.

 

[wp6529]

This is what happens when you have a very homogeneous infrastructure, where everybody is using exactly the same hardware/software/whatever. Consider the Irish potato famine: Everybody in Ireland lived on potatoes, and when the potato harvest failed a million people died.

Today's computer infrastructure is reliant on a fairly small number of hardware and software companies. Intel, Microsoft, Cisco each have huge market shares. That makes their products very attractive to attackers, and those products are far from perfect. Which means that company IT departments would be negligent if they didn't use third-party products to secure their infrastructure. Crowdstrike is a company that has become an essential IT security provider over the past decade, having come to prominence investigating various computer attacks, include the 2016 Russian attack on the DNC. So now, not only are most companies running the same hardware and software, they're relying on the same company to secure it. That company ships one bad line of code and it's a global disaster.

This is exactly it, and also why working in the IT space is increasingly boring. It used to be far more interesting with a diversity of systems optimized for their particular task. Now it's just tens of thousands of the same ol' thing

As for The Great Global Crowdstrike-M$ Meltdown of 2024(tm) it's not just the M$ space having issues with Crowdstrike. In the Linux space we have been increasingly removing Crowdstrike as it has been causing issues on those servers as well, just not on the scale of the M$ debacle.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

I have developed the cynical view that anti-virus program peddlers are the very ones creating the viruses.

A great business plan to perpetuate your business, no longer dependent on a greasy haired malcontent living in his mother's basement to create them.

Haven't had an antivirus program in years. No issues. Though I do stay away from sites that are a funnel for them. Which is pretty much anything. Which leaves me with the NWS, eBay, two tractor sites, the Depot & a couple other ones. No news sites, no pron sites, no s0cialist media, none of that fluff 'n' nonsense to entertain the average schmuck.

Mike

 

[GChief]

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[GChief]

Haven't had an antivirus program in years. No issues. Though I do stay away from sites that are a funnel for them. Which is pretty much anything. Which leaves me with the NWS, eBay, two tractor sites, the Depot & a couple other ones. No news sites, no pron sites, no s0cialist media, none of that fluff 'n' nonsense to entertain the average schmuck.

Mike

Where is this socialist media you speak of? I do not do any news sites like that. Would be interesting as I always like to understand different takes on most things.

 

[wp6529]

Where is this socialist media you speak of? I do not do any news sites like that. Would be interesting as I always like to understand different takes on most things.

Farcebook, Instaspam, Tic Tard, X lax, etc. all of which are social engineering psychological warfare essentially. Not just my opinion, the same in pretty much the same words has been said by PhD experts on such platforms as NPR.