CrowdStrike recently caused a widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs, disrupting various sectors. However, this was not an isolated incident, CrowdStrike affected Linux PCs also.
  • quinkin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    1 year ago

    Additionally, organizations should approach CrowdStrike updates with caution

    We would if we were able to control their “deployable content”.

  • BurnSquirrel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    437·
    1 year ago

    Companies don’t really use Debian or Rocky in widescale production because they have no support.

    Now red hat or ubuntu is a different matter.

    Honestly though this does point out that this is a pattern of behavior on crowdstrikes part. This should have been the canary in the coalmine.

    • Nine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know about that. In the HPC space we use a lot of EL distros. Mainly Centos & now Rocky. Most of the nodes run the os in ram too. Though almost all those kind of systems have no internet connection and don’t use things like crowdstrike. I’ve worked for a few places where the only part of the company that used windows was the office staff eg accounting, hr, etc. everything else is/was using an EL distro or upstream of one eg Fedora. Those type of places usually don’t mess things like crowdstrike for a lot of different reasons eg the kind of data they’re processing and security requirements on that data.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
    148·
    1 year ago

    In April, a CrowdStrike update caused all Debian Linux servers in a civic tech lab to crash simultaneously and refuse to boot.

    And then, you boot their servers from a Linux Live USB, run TimeShift to restore the last system snapshot, refuse the latest patch from Cloudstrike and they all lived happily ever after.

      • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Anybody who doesn’t already have ipmi serial console access set up needs to put that on their list of acceptance criteria for remediation of this incident.

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      boot their servers from a Linux live usb

      If I ran a computer lab that wasn’t already net booted, I’d use this as the motivating factor to put that in place. Net booting to a repair image, or just reinstalling the whole OS either from scratch or a known good disk image, is where anybody who manages a fleet of computers should be.

      There was a point in time where I had a pxe boot server vm set up on my laptop that I used to reload servers in our little row of racks at 365 main, because it let me quickly swap out the boot iso, and was faster than usb sticks were at the time.

    • kurap1ka@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      And on Windows you booted in safe mode and removed one file. What’s the point of your post?

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    Microsoft already has a very bad reputation, so they will be blamed for every issue on their OS.

    Vista suffered from bad 3rd party drivers, then people proceeded to just dunk on M$ due to their already bad name. Despite Edge is nowadays just a different flavor of Chromium, people are still making “haha IE slow” memes, even those that still claim Google being the “savior of the internet”.

    • kevindqc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      So who do you think hacked the DNC and got their emails, then? Is it the same people who hacked the RNC but didn’t leak the emails? What makes you more qualified than CrowdStrike on this?

      • StaySquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        U.S. intelligence officials cannot make definitive conclusions about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee computer servers because they did not analyze those servers themselves. Instead, they relied on the forensics of CrowdStrike, a private contractor for the DNC that was not a neutral party, much as “Russian dossier” compiler Christopher Steele, also a DNC contractor, was not a neutral party. This puts two Democrat-hired contractors squarely behind underlying allegations in the affair – a key circumstance that Mueller ignores.

        • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/18/donald-trump-us-senate-report-russia-campaign

          A report by the Senate intelligence committee… runs to nearly 1,000 pages and goes further than last year’s investigation into Russian election interference by special prosecutor Robert Mueller… identifies Konstantin Kilimnik as a Russian intelligence officer employed by the GRU, the military intelligence agency behind the 2018 poisoning of the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal. It cites evidence – some of it redacted – linking Kilimnik to the GRU’s hacking and dumping of Democratic party emails.