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Re: Crowd Strike's screw-up and Linux

dummy@example.com (stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:48:05 +0000

you would have thought George Kurtz would have learned
his lesson after an earlier incident while at mcafee:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kurtz

Re: Crowd Strike's screw-up and Linux

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:46:33 +0000

Hello:

... anyone encountered this?
... problems on home computers.

This world-wide foobar is related to the use of CrowdStrike Falcon security platform software.
Not something you would find in any home computer.

What has happened clearly illustrates the lack of common sense on behalf of a great many global/critical IT players who (besides using Windows based systems), put all their security/redundancy eggs in the same basket with, as is quite evident, no exit/recovery solution in case of failure.

When (not if) this happens again, it will be much worse.

Best,

Re: Crowd Strike's screw-up and Linux

dummy@example.com (aluma) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:33:55 +0000

Has anyone encountered this?
I didn't notice any problems on home computers.

Crowd Strike's screw-up and Linux

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:08:30 +0000

Hello:

Found this at The Register this morning:

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes
Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down
by Simon Sharwood

CrowdStrike's now-infamous Falcon Sensor software, which last week led to widespread outages of Windows-powered computers, has also caused crashes of Linux machines.
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We've also spotted reports of CrowdStrike being suspected of causing problems in Debian and Rocky Linux.

Best,