Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines
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Published 2024-07-19
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All Comments (21)
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The fact that it was an Antivirus that performed the single most successful malware attacks ever is just pure poetry
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Hiring 20 more project managers and 40 extra recruiters should prevent this in the future
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What the hell is their deployment process where they didn't catch this in testing? Like they ran the update, saw a blue screen of death and went "looks good, ship it"?
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If this kind of an upgrade can go through unchecked, imagine how easy it would be to pay one rogue engineer to deploy malicious code that can be exploited later at ease.
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"You can't hack a system if the system doesn't work! " - Cybersecurity intern pushing the update
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Everyone: DEV > TEST > PROD Crowdstrike: PROD
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Honestly, this was truly a dangerous crash. And crowdstrike has been throwing stones and mocking Microsoft for months. And then they did this.
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this is why you don't push untested and uncontrolled updates to the world. Every single update has to be rigorously tested in-house and to a control group before an even larger test before pushing out the door.
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My dad: Come on, it's just an internship, what's the worst that could happen? Me:
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The alpha move of doing something that would make your stock value crash, but simultaneously freezing the stock market so that it can't.
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As an IT manager this really hurt. Having to require a bitlocker key for 1000’s of laptops was a nightmare.
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poor employee probably overworked af. one person should never be able to deal this much damage. this company has flawed processes
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This is what Y2K wished it would be
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I was fired last week from my IT job. Yesterday I woke up to a call from the company asking for help, as apparently they didn't have time to hire someone else capable of fixing it, I politely said that I was busy, hung up the call and laughed my ass off of them
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I also love the fact that Crowdstrike CEO, Kurtz, was McAfee CEO when something similar happened with Windows XP in 2010
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My boss and I had just had a conversation the day before about the risks associated with so many industries relying on "best practices" (French for "use what all the CEO's friends are using") for platform and enterprise software decisions.
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That poor intern…
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They even named their cybersecurity company to sound like a DDoS attack.
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the biggest problem is with laptops and other PC that completely standalone. With so many user scatter around in god knows where. And with windows that loves doing random shit, sometimes you can't even enter the recovery environment to get into the safe mode. So so much nightmare lmaoo
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Not just bad code but a short group of bytes in a very short string of code. Pure genius.
