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Update: Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike update causes major outage affecting businesses around the world

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/19/crowdstrike-suffers-major-outage-affecting-businesses-around-the-world.html

So, how’s all that centralisation working out for y’all?

#CrowdStrike #microsoft #BigTech #centralisation #TooBigWillFail


Cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike update causes major outage affecting businesses around the world

An update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike led to a major outage on Friday, the company told NBC, which impacted businesses globally.
Arjun Kharpal (CNBC)
#microsoft #BigTech #centralisation #toobigwillfail #crowdstrike
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Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin)
Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin)
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I mean, that headline is misleading. It's #CrowdStrike
#crowdstrike
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@zebpalmer The article mentions that the core issue might be CrowdStrike but still, the argument stands: the real culprit is centralisation and global reliance on multi-billion and trillion-dollar US corporations. If one company’s services going down causes this much chaos your system is not resilient.
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Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin)
Zeb Palmer (Syringa Admin)
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sure. but saying Microsoft is suffering an outage is inaccurate and borderline unethical at this point. I hate MS and we don't have a single windows box in my org, but still... This is 100% confirmed by #Crowdstrike and every other news outlet to be #CrowdStrike not an MS issue.
#crowdstrike
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:spinning_pinwheel: PreCosmos
:spinning_pinwheel: PreCosmos
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This is a good day. Many people will realize they need to switch their services to Linux.
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David Somers
David Somers
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It’s not really centralisation to blame specifically but, as always, a chain of events leading to failure (the Swiss Cheese Model). Unfortunately, the holes have been getting bigger, and everybody has been winging things for too long because “everything works fine”, um, until it doesn’t and then “BSOD”.
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Aaron Caskey-Demaret
Aaron Caskey-Demaret
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Even though this doesn't affect Linux servers, I'm feeling pretty vindicated about pushing back so much on installing it in our environment.

Though I did eventually relent and install a test, I've just pulled the plug on that...

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