Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike pushed an update that caused millions of Windows computers to enter recovery mode, triggering the blue screen of death. Learn …

  • BeardedGingerWonder
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    2 months ago

    Have you never worked in corporate IT or something? Of course we should blame Crowdstrike, that way we don’t get a sev 1 on our scorecard.

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      2 months ago

      It’s funny that corporate IT will be one of the groups getting the blame in this case, despite it being in most cases not their decision that a company lacks a separate test and production environment. The executives that decided that usually gets off scot free.

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        2 months ago

        Hahah, no doubt, while popping in and out of the outage call repeating the phrases “can I get an update?”, " Is there an ETA on recovery?" and “We need to get this back online”