Subj : Cloudstrike/Windows BSOD, looks pretty serious
To   : kirkspragg
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jul 19 2024 09:16 am

  Re: Cloudstrike/Windows BSOD, looks pretty serious
  By: kirkspragg to All on Fri Jul 19 2024 02:38 am

 ki> Condolences to any of you who have been affected by this. It looks pretty
 ki> bad - this appears to be a first class IT cock-up of the highest order:

 ki> https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2024/07/19/
 ki> crowdstrike-windows-outage-what-happened-and-what-to-do-next/

 ki> How did we get to the point where so much of our infrastructure could be
 ki> broken by like this by what appears to be one vendor's mistake.... This is
 ki> the kind of outage that the likes of cloudstrike are supposed to protect
 ki> us from!

So many businesses and organizations have defaulted to using certain standard software..  I actually hadn't heard of Crowdstrike and had to look it up, and apparently it's cybersecurity software.

Nightfox
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