Ira: Hello, security engineer that has installed CrowdStrike on thousands of computers. A thread on the outage and what is exactly happening. Here’s a quick explainer on what *seems* to be the cause of the CrowdStrike outage and why it happened so quickly. — Subium • Bluesky web client
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Hello, security engineer that has installed CrowdStrike on thousands of computers. A thread on the outage and what is exactly happening. Here’s a quick explainer on what *seems* to be the cause of the CrowdStrike outage and why it happened so quickly.
  • SSJMarx@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    You know, I’ve complained about how Linux makes you run upgrade yourself and doesn’t automate it, but I guess I’ll never have to worry about some shit like this happening to my machine overnight, lmao.

    • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Distros often do automate it, they’re just better at it than windows so you don’t notice lol (and they usually only enable it by default for security updates, which is the sane way to do it IMO) ubuntu/debian have unattended-upgrade, DNF distros like fedora, rhel-likes, etc have dnf-automatic.

      I’ve never had one break something.

      • SSJMarx@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Maybe it’s just a case of me not knowing where to look, I’m on Debian and I always have to upgrade everything manually.

        • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          you can configure it manually

          or some basic configuration options should be available through “software-properties-gtk” under the Updates tab (unsure if this is preinstalled or not, but it is available from apt. It also might show up as “Software & Updates” in the GUI)

          I don’t know if debian does security updates automatically by default, I’ve only used it on servers lately