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Security “giant” CrowdStrike learned a huge lesson about testing update patches before they’re released. Apparently, their programmers didn’t learn the “Lemmings” lesson that “careless clicking costs lives.” Everything from Global travel to local 911 access was disrupted on Friday, by one tiny piece of flawed coding.
Security update cripples planet
The same Security company the Democrats went running to when their official DNC servers got hacked, CrowdStrike, also a favorite of Hillary Clinton, admitted on Friday that all the worldwide outages were their fault. It wasn’t a “cyberattack.”
They simply crippled planetary communications by mistake. Oops, sorry guys.
On July 19, CrowdStrike issued a statement acknowledging that the “major global IT outage, taking out banks, airlines and businesses globally” was caused by a “faulty” security update.
Quick rewrite:
I’m the CEO of CrowdStrike. I’m devastated to see the scale of today’s outage and will be personally working on it together with our team until it’s fully fixed for every single user.
But I wanted to take a moment to come here and tell you that I am sorry. People… pic.twitter.com/pMHTsqCE4T
— Lulu Cheng Meservey (@lulumeservey) July 19, 2024
Everyone jumping to the conclusion it was a hack attack “serves as an example for how easy it is to spread inaccurate information online during a time of immense global confusion and panic.”
Beginning early Friday morning, computers running Microsoft Windows which were using the software affected by the security update were bricked, displaying the nefarious “Blue Screen of Death.” It instantly “grounded flights globally.”
Everyone from grocery stores to doctor’s offices were crippled. Even though the patch has been patched, full recovery is expected to take a while. This isn’t all going to go away in a few hours.
Largest IT outage in history
According to Cyber security researcher Troy Hunt, “this will be the largest IT outage in history.” Microsoft users around the world “shared snaps of the computer screens stuck with a blue display.” We all know what that means. The message reads: “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart.” Restarting didn’t help.
CrowdStrike is totally embarrassed that its most recent anti-malware update “has plunged much of the world back to a pre-tech past.” Airports weren’t the only ones in the dark ages.
Supermarkets were at a standstill because no product is marked with a price. Even if the cashier could figure out how to total up the bill, the customer wouldn’t be able to complete the financial transaction.
12-hour timelapse of American Airlines, Delta, and United plane traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history forced a nationwide ground stop of the three airlines. pic.twitter.com/wwcQeiEtVe
— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) July 19, 2024
If this had been a cyber-attack, the whole world would be in huge trouble. The security industry is complaining loudly that a mistake that acts like a hack attack is just as bad as the real thing.
The company posted a statement on their website, where nobody could see it. “CrowdStrike is aware of reports of crashes on Windows related to the Falcon Sensor.” They “have reverted back to an older system to avoid further disruption.”
The problem is that some of the security disruption is ongoing. George Kurtz, the founder and chief executive explains that “it could be some time for ‘some systems‘ to return to normal, stressing that they would not just automatically recover.“
