It seems like there were 2 separate problems overnight Apparently Microsoft did indeed hose their Azure US Central region, before Crowdstrike then bricked the Rest of the World (View Post)

In any sufficiently complex system, adding "resilience" adds further complexity and introduces previously impossible failure modes... I lose count of the number of times "adding a seco… (View Post)

The conversation in IT departments is now "Why the hell did we install a rootkit we don't own on every one of our devices?" I think the whole business model of Crowdstrike might be in … (View Post)

Cisco invited us to a demo of their switches years ago. they built a "fully redundant" network, no single points of failure. So my colleague asked if he could pull a cable He did The networ… (View Post)

@faisalislam This concerning global IT outage - insiders say it arises because the security software gets high or “root” privileges which can then change the operating system. Much of this appears to… (View Post)