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.

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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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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

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Sure, this time it only affected Windows computers, but Crowdstrike has also broken Linux installs this year:

https://stackdiary.com/crowdstrike-took-down-debian-and-rocky-linux-a-few-months-ago-and-no-one-noticed/

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Sure but I’m not using their software. I’m careful about what I allow to have kernel access on my machines.

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most Linux “Users” would’nt be that stupid. it nearly always takes a noob in a CEO position (okay, just saying CEO is sufficient here) to blindly trust malware distributers and their ads.

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

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It’s separate software; CrowdStrike is independent from Microsoft and it isn’t a default component of Windows.

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It’s interesting that Microsoft is getting a lot of flack from this.

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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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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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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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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.

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

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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)”

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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.

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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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