{"id":14346,"date":"2024-07-19T11:56:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14346"},"modified":"2024-07-20T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T11:04:54","slug":"crowdstrike-and-microsoft-culprit-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14346","title":{"rendered":"Crowdstrike and Microsoft &#8211; culprit identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp4wnrxqlewo\">BBC reports<\/a> that a massive IT outage is causing chaos around the world, affecting airports, railways, broadcasters and untold companies..<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Cyber-security firm <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CrowdStrike\">CrowdStrike Holdings<\/a> has admitted that the problem was caused by a dodgy update to its software which is allegedly designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from hacking.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>At the same time, Microsoft has said it is taking &#8220;mitigation action&#8221; to deal with &#8220;the lingering impact&#8221; of the outage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Although Crowdstrike has admitted liability, social media had long since decided who was to blame and where.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>This is Alan Ferrier on Mastodon, who wins the prize for the best attribution of blame.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/truss_ms.png\" alt=\"Post reads: Anyone heard how Liz Truss&#039;s first day at Microsoft is going?\" width=\"583\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/truss_ms.png 583w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/07\/truss_ms-300x107.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/Liz_Truss-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Liz Truss\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/Liz_Truss-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/Liz_Truss-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The disaster known as Mary Elizabeth Truss was ousted from her comfy job misrepresenting the long-suffering burghers of Norfolk at the 4th July election. She was recently seen at the extreme right-wing Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where the perpetual victim, one Donald John Trump, has been anointed its presidential candidate despite his being a convicted felon 34 times over, confirmed business fraudster, document thief, adjudicated sexual predator, congenital liar, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oath_of_office_of_the_president_of_the_United_States\">oath breaker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/lifestyle\/celebrities\/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods\/\">golf cheat<\/a>.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that a massive IT outage is causing chaos around the world, affecting airports, railways, broadcasters and untold companies.. Cyber-security firm CrowdStrike Holdings has admitted that the problem was caused by a dodgy update to its software which is allegedly designed to protect Microsoft Windows devices from hacking. At the same time, Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15,46,34,9],"tags":[10,20,47,35,23],"class_list":["post-14346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddities","category-politics","category-security","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-facepalm","tag-politics-2","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14346"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14371,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14346\/revisions\/14371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}