CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Crowdstrike is a cybersecurity company that makes security software for Windows. It apparently operates at the kernel-level, so it’s running in the critical path of the OS. So if their software crashes, it takes Windows down with it.

    This is very popular software. Many large entities including fortune 500 companies, transport authorities, hospitals etc. use this software.

    They pushed a bad update which caused their software to crash, which took Windows down with it on an extremely large number of machines worldwide.

    Hilariously bad.

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      4 months ago

      Honestly it is kind of hilarious, with how many people I have had make fun of me for using Linux, and now here I am laughing from my Linux desktop lol

    • danc4498@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      So, do all windows machines use this, or do you have to add this software?

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        4 months ago

        It seems to be an enterprise product, meaning normal users might not have been affected. I wouldn’t personnaly be able to confirm since I usually have 1-2 month uptime on my windows machine.

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          4 months ago

          Their computers may not be affected, but their everyday lives might be. Some of the affected services include 911, stoplights, banks, hospitals, and a whole other smorgasbord of stuff.

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        4 months ago

        It’s a general security solution. They run on Mac and Linux as well. It just happened that crowdstrike only released the broken update for windows.

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      4 months ago

      They make security software for every OS. My company has it running on our Macs, and Linux servers as well. It just happened to only break windows because that’s what they released the update for.

    • smb@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      This is very popular software.

      if that’s a “good” argument for you, then i’ve already heared that, and it nearly never really fits. here is another one for you that is an argument as generic as yours: “maybe try eating poo, trillions of flies cannot be wrong, poo is VERY popular food, much more popular than any human food !!! (as in mass per day as well as in its number of consumers)”

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        I wasn’t making a case for adopting this software. Just pointing out that it is widely used, which is why it had such a wide effect.

        I think you’ll find most corporations would jump off a bridge if they saw their competitors jump.

        • smb@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          so i misunderstood. sry then.

          and yes, every company running an alltime-ever-in-news-due-to-critical-exploitable-bugs-in-the-mailclient already IS in freefall after that said jump.

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      4 months ago

      I was puzzled since my work continued on as usual. I guess my company doesn’t use it.