My Take on #Crowdstrike Chaos

- On Friday morning, a massive outage affected airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services worldwide, linked to CrowdStrike software. - The issue caused Windows machines to display the Blue Screen of Death, with systems falling offline due to a faulty content update. - CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz stated the problem isn't a cyberattack and doesn't affect Mac or Linux machines, but fixing it could take days to weeks. - The outage is tied to CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, which combines multiple security solutions into a single hub. - Independent cybersecurity researcher Lukasz Olejnik noted the interconnected nature of software can lead to single points of failure, complicating recovery efforts. Source: The Verge

- Major banks, media, airports and airlines affected by major IT outage - Payment systems impacted in different parts of the world, including Australia and the UK. - Australia's government calls for emergency meeting - Significant disruption to some Microsoft services - 911 services disrupted in several US states including Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ohio. - Services at London Stock Exchange disrupted - Sky News is off air - Reports the issue relates to problem at global cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike

sick of these companies forcing work from office down our throats, while stifling increments for the last 2yrs saying ‘you get to work from home, save a lot’. now suddenly they want everyone to come back to office, and they conveniently forget that they gave us shitty increments using wfh as an excuse.

All laptops in my team are down. Apparently it's a global issue with Microsoft laptops - others also facing the same?

- CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas accepted the 'Most Epic Fail' award at Def Con 2024, following a global IT meltdown caused by a software update. - The award ceremony took place right after the Black Hat conference, where CrowdStrike had a significant presence, distributing free T-shirts and action figures. - Sentonas' acceptance speech, shared online, was met with enthusiasm and appreciation from the audience for acknowledging the company's mistakes. - The award was a last-minute addition, with organizers noting that CrowdStrike was an obvious choice for the 'Most Epic Fail' category. - Sentonas emphasized the importance of owning up to mistakes and stated that the trophy would be displayed at CrowdStrike HQ as a reminder to prevent future errors. Source: [Techcrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/11/crowdstrike-accepts-award-for-most-epic-fail-after-global-it-outage/)

Guys very curious, have you guys faced any challenges like once product writes off the deployment, founders coming after you for the bugs that comes in prod, because the testing is not done well. I feel it happens to me a lot of times but yeah im leveraging ai to help me test better. Do you guys use any ai in testing? Or do you guys face this problem??

Need some advice on how to transition to a cybersecurity product based company. I've got 6 years of experience in cybersecurity. Currently an EM with a Big 4. I wanted to move into the product based companies. Preferably somewhere along the lines of product security or becoming a Product Manager for a company who sells security products Is it possible? Appreciate any guidance.

Just saw that CRED website is not opening so I assumed maybe some VPN/browser issues. But just to confirm, I went to cred app and opened some section of app that will fetch data from backed… so I visited the Credit Card section and there it was “oops, something went wrong!” I saw this again and again in many sections in the app. Folks @cred can you confirm?