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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peacechance Oct 1, 2024 View on HN

Can't blame Crowdstrike can they?

sgammon Jul 19, 2024 View on HN

"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"

JackC Jul 19, 2024 View on HN

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

jerrymcflurry Jul 30, 2024 View on HN

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.

ssahoo Jul 21, 2024 View on HN

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.

phone_book Jul 19, 2024 View on HN

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.

pixel16 Jul 22, 2024 View on HN

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...You mean the same issues that Linux also faced?

CaliforniaKarl Jul 19, 2024 View on HN

Yes. CrowdStrike for Linux has had bugs in the past, though. This time the Windows version is affected.

bratwurst3000 Jul 19, 2024 View on HN

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

BenjiWiebe Jul 19, 2024 View on HN

CrowdStrike is not MSFT. This also affected Linux installations with CrowdStrike installed, from what I've read.