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Summary of the recent crowdstrike report: 🧵https://infosec.exchange/@munin/112916974811882522
Munin wonders if the weird writing style of the report might be because crowdstrike used an LLM to generate a summary of several source documents, which would be funny-yet-depressing if true.
The actual causes of the incident probably won’t suprise anyone… “didn’t bounds-check, didn’t test parser on bad data, didn’t stage rollouts” in order of should-have-done-this-first-ness.
Minor, but it's CrowdStrike not cloudstrike
I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve
Completely agree, that's why I nit, since "CloudStrike" sounds like an actual name for an actual product and I will not have that stand!
AWS probably has pre-filled patent documents ready for CloudStrike, just waiting on some acquihire or popular open source thing they can product-leech
Oops, I’ve been trying to avoid calling it “clownstrike”, and didn’t quite manage to fix that initial syllable.
It's a really weird name for a product. A crowd strike sounds like a terrorist tactic, not something that brings "security" to mind.
Tom Clancy’s CrowdStrike sounds like the kind of military fiction I’d accidentally buy from the thrift store
there’s a whole strain of extreme terribleness in the wider infosec industry ito naming and references, it’s so goddamn bad
the most recently visible form of this is post-heartbleed how lots of researchers/groups now fall over themselves to give vuln publications Branding (logo, catchy name, etc), but also all kinds of other things that they constantly mix some terminology soup up
People are so trained to shout at Cloudflare for protecting the neo-nazi sites that this is every understandable.
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Simpsons cartoon, Marge shouts 'Cloudflare, no!' to her left. Bart, with the Cloudflare logo on his head walks in from the right, 'What?'. Marge apologizes to Bart, 'Sorry force of habit'. Marge shouts 'Crowdstrike, no!'.while that's also a problem, doesn't really seem that's what happened here
I have seen a lot of people call it cloudstrike and not a lot of other variants, so I assumed it was due to crowdstrike and cloudflare being so similar.
fair ‘nuff :)