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Anyone affected by Crowdstrike's McAffee impression?

Aside from two guys stuck in the Charlotte airport we seem to be unaffected.
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NYC's subway app is currently down!
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Leisher wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2024 10:57 am Anyone affected by Crowdstrike's McAffee impression?
Nope. We passed on it a few years ago.

But we fly to ireland Sunday, so hopefully it's all fixed by then.
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Had a boss once who would update our mainframe to the PREVIOUS patch, when the new patch came out. "Let's let everyone else test it. I'm not in a hurry to break stuff."
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GORDON wrote: Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:37 am Had a boss once who would update our mainframe to the PREVIOUS patch, when the new patch came out. "Let's let everyone else test it. I'm not in a hurry to break stuff."
Yeah, that's how I always did DB updates. Be a patch or two behind.
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Writing up a report about this outage for my board. Doing this even though we're not Crowdstrike customers because we're making a concentrated push to educate them that IT is super important, can cripple their business in a second, and they need to stop ignoring it. This is two years removed from us being hacked. How quickly they forget...

Anyway, doing my writeup and came up with a super "inside baseball" joke:
The engineer who applied this patch probably formerly worked at McAffee and did all the work on his Mac.

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$5.4B in damages and counting, but Crowdstrike knows how to win back the public.

Offers their partners a $10 gift card.
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I feel like single digit damages is way too low. SOme airlines are still fucked up. Domino effect.
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