• hydrospanner@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It occurred to us that CrowdStrike is an absolutely terrible name. It sounds like a terrorist attack. Of course, it felt like one on Friday.

    When I first heard about what was going on, I assumed that “CrowdStrike” was not the name of the software/company, but rather some sort of advanced DDOS-like attack where they used systems they’d previously hacked and had them all do the same thing at once to another target.

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      3 months ago

      not the name of the software/company, but rather some sort of advanced DDOS-like attack

      As we’ve discovered, both can be true.