2038 is the next big thing to hit older *nix based OS. It will be Y2K all over again.
It’ll be 911 times 1000.
It’ll be 911,000? As long as it’s stored with 32 bits that should be fine 🤷
I agree. We’ve been able to do 6 digit math for decades now
This already happens any time the domain name servers go down: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/20/cloudflare-outage-knocks-popular-services-offline/
Doubtful. By far, most servers responsible for Internet traffic are not running crowdstrike software.
This incident was a bunch of fortune 500 companies caught with their pants down.
If all of the parts of the internet that the average person finds useful goes down, then it matters little that technically “the internet” is not down. If it can’t be useful then it is as good as “down”.
Who do you think runs those servers? What do you think those companies run on their Linux servers?
Those companies aren’t “the Internet.” They’re products connected to the Internet.
The OP argument is like saying the Internet is dead because Netflix is down.
A lot of people would say the internet was down if a large number of those products weren’t available. Also companies like Google do own parts of the physical Internet infrastructure.
And keep in mind, the falcon sensor exists for Linux. All those big companies largely use it.
Essentially we just got lucky that their buggy patch only affected the windows version of the sensor in a showstopping way. Could have been all major OS.
This mastodon user claims otherwise:
Yep I know
I don’t think the Linux culture is very similar to the windows culture. At least for me personally, I wouldn’t use crowdstrike and let them install whatever they want into my environment.
Maybe it’s just me.
Essentially no one has crowdstrike on their personal machines. Not Windows users, Mac users, or Linux users. So it’s corporate/large organization culture that matters. And they absolutely use it.
Welcome to the world of big retailers! They would rather run Linux with crowdstrike than make their own system.
Are you an admin in a corporate data center? If not, you’re not in the target audience for that product.
Yup. And I think that says more about the corporate culture than the company that caters to them.
We tried to fight against having to install Crowstrike on our Linux servers but got overruled by upper management without discussion. I assume we are not the only ones with that experience in the world due to the need to check a checkbox for some flimsy audit.
I bet you could bring it up with them now…
You’re actually confirming their point about culture though. The fact that you couldn’t stop them doesn’t mean that it also happened to everybody else: some management may have listened. Linux users abhor adding weird shit to their OS, Windows users do it all the time.
It’s not your machine, your choice of distro, or your choice of specific packages to use or not use. It’s a work tool you get handed as part of a job. So whether CrowdStrike runs on it or not is not your decision and you aren’t allowed (and usually not capable) to change that.
That’s an entirely different situation from one where you get a PC to do with as you please and set up yourself, or a private machine.
Plus we’re mostly talking endpoint devices for non-technical users with many of these difficult-to-fix devices as techs have to drive out to them. The users expect a tool, and they get a tool. A Linux would be customized and utterly locked down, and part of that would be the endpoint protection software.
The issuw didn’t affect Linux and macOS systems with Crowdstrike Falcon installed, though, only Windows systems.
On Windows, booting into Safe Mode and removing
C:\Windows\System32\Drivers het bestand C-00000291*.systemporarily solves the BSOD issue, as well.The point is that it could have. Or maybe some unknown 0-day gets used by someone out to cause chaos instead of collect random.
That’s true
On one hand I hope people are smart enough to run updates to critical systems on a test environment, first. On the other hand I’ve learned that that is not at all the case yesterday.
Many security products have no test option. One I’m using has a best practice of a 15 minute delay between test and prod and no automation to suspend besides relying on the vendor to pull the update it within 15 mins if it were to go full crowdstrike.
The problem her was that this wasn’t a traditional update. It was delivered automatically as a “content” update (like how old av would have definition update). We were given no room to test.
Then the internet would blame it all on Linux.
However, the recovery process would be much faster. The Linux kernel would try to load the kernel module and if it fails it would skip it.
