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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 4 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] -2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How is it not a window problem?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It is on the sense that Windows admins are the ones that like to buy this kind of shit and use it. It's not on the sense that Windows was broken somehow.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why should it be? A faulty software update from a 3rd party crashes the operating system. The exact same thing could happen to Linux hosts as well with how much access those IPSec programms usually get.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But that patch is for windows, not Linux. Not a hypothetical, this is happening.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Your fixated on the wrong part of the story. Synchronized supply chain update takes out global infrastructure isn't a windows problem, this happens on linux too!

Just because a drunk driver crashes their BMW into a school doesn't mean drunk driving is only a BMW vehicle problem.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If BMW makes a car that has square wheels and needs to have everyone install round wheels so the fucking thing works you can't blame a company for making wheels.

It's a Microsoft problem through and through.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Your counter to the BMW Drunk driver example didn't address drunk driving in volvos, toyotas, fords.... you just introduced a variable that your upset with. BMW's having weird wheels has nothing to do with Drunk Driving incidents.

Again your focused on the wrong thing, this story is a warning about supply chain issues.

Your just memeing on the hate for windows.

Have you never seen a DNS outage, a ansible outage, a terraform outage, a RADIUS outage, a database schema change outage, a router firmware update outage?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love how quickly everyone has forgotten about that xz attack.

I use and love Linux and have for over two decades now, but I'm not going to sit here and claim that something similar to the current Windows issue can't happen to Linux.