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Today I'm grateful I'm using Linux - Global IT issues caused by Crowdstrike update causes BSOD on Windows (www.timesnownews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in.

Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.)

Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

While I don’t totally disagree with you, this has mostly nothing to do with Windows and everything to do with a piece of corporate spyware garbage that some IT Manager decided to install. If tools like that existed for Linux, doing what they do to to the OS, trust me, we would be seeing kernel panics as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hate to break it to you, but CrowdStrike falcon is used on Linux too...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

And if it was a kernel-level driver that failed, Linux machines would fail to boot too. The amount of people seeing this and saying “MS Bad,” (which is true, but has nothing to do with this) instead of “how does an 83 billion dollar IT security firm push an update this fucked” is hilarious

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Falcon uses eBPF on Linux nowadays. It's still an irritating piece of software, but it no make your boxen fail to boot.

edit: well, this is a bad take. I should avoid commenting on shit when I'm sleep deprived and filled with meeting dread.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're asking the wrong question: why does a security nightmare need a 90 billion dollar company to unfuck it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What’s your solution to cyberattacks?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Linux in the hands of professionals. There's a reason IIS isn't used anymore.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is it not a window problem?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The fault seems to be 90/10 CS, MS.

MS allegedly pushed a bad update. Ok, it happens. Crowdstrike's initial statement seems to be blaming that.

CS software csagent.sys took exception to this and royally shit the bed, disabling the entire computer. I don't think it should EVER do that, so the weight of blame must lie with them.

The really problematic part is, of course, the need to manually remediate these machines. I've just spent the morning of my day off doing just that. Thanks, Crowdstrike.

EDIT: Turns out it was 100% Crowdstrike, and the update was theirs. The initial press release from CS seemed to be blaming Microsoft for an update, but that now looks to be misleading.