CrowdStroke
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CrowdStricken
Now that's a good code word!
On Friday, as we were running around the hospital where we work trying to get every computer working again, we were following the work-around to rename the Crowdstrike folder under C:\Windows\system32\drivers to "bad-CrowdStrike".
When my coworker was typing the rename command, instead of typing "cro TAB", he started typing "clo TAB". He'd ask me why it wasn't finding it, and I'd point out the typo.
I started saying, it's not "CloudStrike", it's "CrowdStrike".
By the end of the day, we were both a little loopy. I started typing "CloudStrike", and cursing him out for screwing with my head. By the end of the day I wasn't sure what it was either.
CloudStrike
CrownStrike
ClownStrike
It occurred to us that CrowdStrike is an absolutely terrible name. It sounds like a terrorist attack. Of course, it felt like one on Friday.
It occurred to us that CrowdStrike is an absolutely terrible name. It sounds like a terrorist attack. Of course, it felt like one on Friday.
When I first heard about what was going on, I assumed that "CrowdStrike" was not the name of the software/company, but rather some sort of advanced DDOS-like attack where they used systems they'd previously hacked and had them all do the same thing at once to another target.
not the name of the software/company, but rather some sort of advanced DDOS-like attack
As we've discovered, both can be true.
Yeah, I'm usually a big stickler for making sure I'm saying something right, but that name was tongue twistering me from the first time I tried to say it out loud. And we don't even use them and weren't hit in any way lol
CloudStrike
CrownStrike
ClownStrike
ClownStrife
CloudStrife
Ah yes, the guy from FFVII
ClownStrike
A fitting rename after such a pathetic and catastrophic failure, that's for sure.
Yeah, let's not key them get away with it. Clownstrike forever on
funny thing is I, and probably most people, had never even heard that there was something called "CrowdStrike" until Friday of last week
Oh, if you worked at a company that uses them (which is a lot of companies), you'd definitely be familiar with them as they hog up a ton of fucking CPU/disk. I basically had an entire CPU core dedicated to running their bullshit.
When I heard "CrowdStrike" took down operating systems everywhere, I thought it was the name of a virus or a group of hackers. I'm not the only one hearing an inherent villainy in that name, right?
Same for me with Solar Winds, Equifax, SVB and Ashley Madison.
Weird to think that some kind of major catastrophe in the future could again be caused by some company that exists right now, but am unaware of.
Something I heard about recently is that it's unnervingly common for the stock prices of unknown but really important companies like these to shoot up following an outage because it reveals to stock investors how mich of a monopoly it has in an area.
Are you not in the US? Equifax is a credit bureau and if you've never heard of them, you never needed credit or you're not from the US.
The other three, I've only heard of Ashley Madison because they had a very aggressive ad campaign before ad blockers became ubiquitous. One could say it was ads like theirs that made ad blocking a requirement.
Yeah, I'm not in the US. The first time I heard about them was when they shit the bed.
I knew of falcond as the service that makes my work mac run slow.
Unfortunately, having a mac meant i didn't get friday off unlike most of the rest of the company
I'm a Formula One fan. The Mercedes team are sponsored by them. You see their logo every time you see an on board shot of the cars.
I had no idea until this weekend.
Over/Under on the amount of time before that logo gets removed?
End of season, at least, or whenever the livery/sponsorship contract runs out. Mercedes isn’t liable to care too much - it’s just a livery.
Well you say that but their pit wall on Friday said otherwise 
I dunno how blind I have to be to miss this for all this time, but the air vents they have on the pit wall are the same air vents you get on a Mercedes-Benz.
It makes perfect sense, but it's rather amusing 😂
an operating system that allows third-party ring 0 access
Linux with eBPF:
Shush, this is an opportunity for people to dump on Microsoft, if you take it from them they'll turn on you.
Yes. I'm no security expert, but ebpf always seemed a bit weird to me. But in the end how much different is it from kernel drivers?
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