CrowdStrike Outage
Discussions center on a defective CrowdStrike update causing widespread Windows BSODs and global outages, with debates over blame between CrowdStrike and Microsoft, prior Linux issues, and impacts on businesses and critical infrastructure.
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Can't blame Crowdstrike can they?
"CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted"
Crowdstrike did this to our production linux fleet back on April 19th, and I've been dying to rant about it.The short version was: we're a civic tech lab, so we have a bunch of different production websites made at different times on different infrastructure. We run Crowdstrike provided by our enterprise. Crowdstrike pushed an update on a Friday evening that was incompatible with up-to-date Debian stable. So we patched Debian as usual, everything was fine for a week, and then all of
No they haven't. It's Crowdstrike's bug but it's Microsoft's problem that they accepted a change in their kernel without testing.
They recommend crowdstrike to customers. Now they are trying to at least skim some good will. Also bad a kernel module that can ruin the OS is partially their fault.
Check out this Reddit comment (not mine)https://www.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_e...Quote: "Multiple sensor versions apparently. I checked we haven't received a sensor update since the 13th so it must be something else they're updating to cause it.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...You mean the same issues that Linux also faced?
Yes. CrowdStrike for Linux has had bugs in the past, though. This time the Windows version is affected.
maybe they installed crowdstrike because they wanted updated without testing. and crowdstrike failed at testing them in their environment.sounds like they didnt test all cases and stumbled on a windows bug
CrowdStrike is not MSFT. This also affected Linux installations with CrowdStrike installed, from what I've read.