Windows Massive Crashwhich occurred on Friday, is still taking its toll, as the problem has affected many computers around the world. We know the explanation for the fault and the error CrowdStrike company admittedwhich deals with security, and it was its Falcon update that led to the crisis.
CrowdStrike apologized to customers and released a statement revealing the causes of the problems. It said: the outage did not affect Mac and Linux hostsand only Windows operating systems. However, in the past it was different…
Another incident occurred a few months ago and it involved users of computers with Debian and Rocky Linux distributions. This happened in April of this year, where the culprit was also a faulty update delivered by CrowdStrike.
The update implemented by CrowdStrike turned out to be incompatible with the latest version of Debian. As a result there were problems and downtimes in the work of computers with this Linux. IT department searches found the cause. Removing the security company’s software “brought back” the machines.
Already then, there were some concerns and voices of dissatisfaction with the activities carried out by CrowdStrike. It turned out that the company’s test system did not include this particular Debian configurationso compatibility was not checked thoroughly and this led to a failure.
The issue has been reported, but there has been talk of a delayed response from CrowdStrike, which has caused some dissatisfaction. Similar bugs were noticed with Rocky Linux 9.4 and this caused the servers that were running this operating system to crash.
CrowdStrike Support confirmed the issue and then brought it to our attention inappropriate testing procedure and incompatibility with different systems. However, these failures went unnoticed. Of course, due to Linux’s smaller market share.
Windows is an operating system that runs on hundreds of millions of computers worldwide, so in this case the scale of the outage was much greater. It had a major impact on various sectors. Banks, airports and many more had problems with their operation, and in some regions of the United States even the 911 emergency line “went down”.
The Friday crisis was resolved quite quickly, but its effects will be felt for some time. There is only one conclusion from such failures. CrowdStrike should certainly focus more on testing procedures that will help avoid similar situations in the future.
Source: geekweek.interia.pl
