Cyber Attacks anyone?

[HikerGuy83]

It’s literally been in the news all day today and no, it was not a cyber attack

Correct......

But look at the damage.

Imagine if someone had done something deliberate.

I hate being so tied to these stupid machines.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Correct......

But look at the damage.

Imagine if someone had done something deliberate.

I hate being so tied to these stupid machines.

I agree. We should not have this kind of vulnerability to our infrastructure because one company performs a failed software upgrade.

 

[HikerGuy83]

I agree. We should not have this kind of vulnerability to our infrastructure because one company performs a failed software upgrade.

Nobody really stops to think about it.

Ever see the movie "Leaving the World Behind" ?

 

[jackflash]

None of this is an accident.

They're up to something.

They claim that Biden was planning on creating an emergency so he could institute Marshal Law.

Big joe has already created an emergency, it's called "himself".

 

[Doc7505]

About what? Software companies pushing out product that isn't quality control tested? Making stupid mistakes all in the name of being first to market and first to profit???

Jeez, I remember Windows 95...

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What this country needs is more DEI rather than merit and experience.
The more DEI the more certain their will be software shutdown, supply chain shutsowns, transportation accidents, and military weakness.

 

[GLASNOST]

Hearing about airplanes being grounded, banking disrupted, all sorts of stuff.. apparently on a global scale.

That's right.

No mention of anything here yet? Very strange.

That's because those cyber attacks are mostly perpetrated by the US.

 

[GLASNOST]

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What this country needs is more DEI rather than merit and experience.

Yep! That'll fix the problem quick-quick!

 

[GLASNOST]

Big joe has already created an emergency, it's called "himself".

Did someone misplace his socks again?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Thanks for your reply. I apologize for not reading correctly that you had just achieved a masters (congrats on that btw), my fault that I assumed you were fairly new when you been at this awhile. Without question your knowledge in this field is beyond what I will ever know.
I do value the answer you kindly provided.

Thank you so much, and there is no need to apologize, I do though appreciate the civility.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Must have been a few of those DEI hires.

You talking about all the H1-B visa holders that the tech companies have brought over in the name of "diversity"?

What would you all do without your scapegoats & boogie men?

 

[ShahdagMountains]

That's right.

That's because those cyber attacks are mostly perpetrated by the US.

There’s another conspiracy swirling about. That it was related to the Trump Campaign.

A lot of those big hi tech companies are Dem donators.

 

[scruffy]

I agree. We should not have this kind of vulnerability to our infrastructure because one company performs a failed software upgrade.

That's about the smartest thing I've ever heard you say on this forum.

 

[scruffy]

Two technical points:

1. Manifest of dependencies
2. Blue/Green switchover

And a question :

3. Why is the government trying to kill the acquisition of Terraform by IBM?

 

[luiza]

Hearing about airplanes being grounded, banking disrupted, all sorts of stuff.. apparently on a global scale. No mention of anything here yet? Very strange.

Control Opposition tycoon Mr Musk knows !!

He could not disassociate his systems faster than he did from CrowdStrike and the dastardly shadow of Microsoft with Deep State Baal Gates hiding behind the curtain .

 

[Grumblenuts]

Control Opposition tycoon Mr Musk knows !!

He could not disassociate his systems faster than he did from CrowdStrike and the dastardly shadow of Microsoft with Deep State Baal Gates hiding behind the curtain .

Seems to have gotten things right more often than a stopped clock. Less so lately. We still allow competing multi-billionaires to control and corrupt our critical infrastructure with corporate "person" protections.. They're definitely not saving us.

 

[mudwhistle]

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What this country needs is more DEI rather than merit and experience.
The more DEI the more certain their will be software shutdown, supply chain shutsowns, transportation accidents, and military weakness.

Yep. More ignorant Detroit types running the country into the ground.

You can claim everyone is a racist when your DIE hires destroy everything they touch.

 

[Burgermeister]

It’s literally been in the news all day today

That doesn't validate the truth of anything anymore.

 

[Missourian]

Just in case it is a cyber attack and they attack the electric grid next time, I want everyone to know I'll be fine and still have power. I know how worried you all would be.
Gloat gloat.
Sorry, just can't help myself.
By God if the Internet is is still working if that happens I'll probably have the last word on everything!
But I'll miss all you guys.....

But I'll miss all some of you guys.....

 

[Missourian]

It's being blamed on a bad update implemented by the vendor CrowdStrike. From my experiences CrowdStrike has been a good gatekeeper between their clients and enemy actors who attempt to invade, disrupt, and take down Crowdstrike clients' systems. This makes it just that more sad and unfortunate that they were the ones who allegedly inadvertently caused the worldwide outage due to a single bad software update.

I just got my master's in cybersecurity about a year ago but one of the things that I keep seeing in some of my environments is alleged professionals who for some reason think that it's acceptable to develop code and deploy it without first testing it.

Additionally, there are the companies that don't have a business continuity plan, change control or disaster recovery policies so that if the worse/unthinkable should occur, and an update breaks something or creates a problem, they can roll back their changes to a stable environment before the bad update installation. Many also don't appear to have any redundancies in place and/or backups that can at least put them back in operation even if they lose a few hours of data (or whatever their predetermined acceptable loss threshold is).

I was just telling my manager earlier this week that we need some redundancies put in place, I've had just submitted tickets for hardware and software that will allow us to do just that this past Monday. I was also adamant that our solution not involve Azure or the cloud.

I read a story this morning that many companies have encryption where the security key is stored digitally in a server that is also affected.

How the hell are they going to fix that?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I read a story this morning that many companies have encryption where the security key is stored digitally in a server that is also affected.

How the hell are they going to fix that?

Hopefully there are backups of the server that was affected, and the backup contains viable copies of the keys.