Las Vegas didn’t fold during CrowdStrike outage

[rbc]

LAS VEGAS — When CrowdStrike pushed a few bits of errant code last month, Michael Sherwood, Las Vegas’s chief information officer, watched as seemingly random networks around the city shut down. Meanwhile, digital security tools stayed quiet and it was unclear what — or perhaps who — was the cause of the outage.

“We started seeing what everybody else saw — machines dropping off, going into a blue screen mode,” Sherwood said during an interview at the Black Hat hacker conference. “I’d say for the first half hour, we didn’t have an indication what the problem was.”

It wasn’t until news reports started to come out that Sherwood learned it wasn’t malicious hackers that had burrowed into Sin City’s sensitive networks; it was just a really bad update from the software that was supposed to keep the unwanted out.
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Las Vegas didn’t fold during CrowdStrike outage