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How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers (www.wired.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jlh@lemmy.jlh.name to c/technology@lemmy.world

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https://web.archive.org/web/20240719155854/https://www.wired.com/story/crowdstrike-outage-update-windows/

"CrowdStrike is far from the only security firm to trigger Windows crashes with a driver update. Updates to Kaspersky and even Windows’ own built-in antivirus software Windows Defender have caused similar Blue Screen of Death crashes in years past."

"'People may now demand changes in this operating model,' says Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at the cybersecurity consultancy Hunter Strategy. 'For better or worse, CrowdStrike has just shown why pushing updates without IT intervention is unsustainable.'"

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[–] radivojevic@discuss.online 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pretty good test to see how easy it would be to shut the world down. Uninstall CrowdStrike.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I'm sure Russia is taking note. Its computers were unaffected due to having no Crowdstrike installations. China too, apparently.

[–] radivojevic@discuss.online 4 points 4 months ago

I’m sure they have their own solution for that, but yes, it would be unwise for a government to install software maintained by a foreign country. Kind of like voting booths.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 4 months ago

China and Russia are switching to Linux, too.