Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world robocall @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Happy International Blue Screen Day

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Its called
How many people is this affecting?

Both articles just say "it's bad, so bad"
- Falcon Sensor is one of the most popular security products in Windows servers. Practically every large company purchases Crowdstrike services to protect their servers.
  
  People who aren't affected:
  
  Linux and Mac servers
  
  Private individuals and smaller businesess who have Windows machines that don't buy CrowdStrike services.
  
  Companies that bothered to create proper test environments for their production servers.
  
  People who are affected:
  
  Companies that use Windows machines, buy Falcon Sensor from Crowdstrike, and are too stupid/cheap to have proper update policies.
  
  In terms of numbers, we don't know how many people are affected or how much it will cost. A lot. Globally. Flights were grounded, surgeries rescheduled, bank transfers and payments interrupted, and millions of employees couldn't turn on their computers this morning.
  
  proper test envs
  
  Nah, let’s direct ship anything any vendor sends us.
  
  Does anyone know how these Cloudstrike updates are actually deployed? Presumably the software has its own update mechanism to react to emergent threats without waiting for patch tuesday. Can users control the update policy for these 'channel files' themselves?
  
  Thank you very much
  
  Damn this morning I wished so hard my company was in the affected group. Alas, we all still had to work.
- Check out https://downdetector.com. It's disrupting big business.
  
  Is it saying each service had a few hundred complaints and then leveled out?
  
  One of them had 7k.
  
  But that isn't only tracking this bsod thing right?
- I have not yet seen any effects in my large multinational organization.
  
  I heard at Singapore international and a few Indian airports they had to write out all the tickets by hand.
  
  Sounds terrible for the employees.
- Flights were grounded across the US for everything but southwest I think
  
  Whoa thanks, I didn't hear that
  
  Wild
The pro Linux German government members being validated. 🦎🐧
Cyanotypists love international blue screen day!
Keep installing these compulsory updates which your overlords let you postpone but not to decline. Good sheep.
- "Stop installing updates to your security software and let it stagnate"
  
  Good sheep. Updates good, no updates bad.
- This wasn't a windows issue you fucking neanderthal.
  
  Baaah, baaah, four legs good, two legs bad

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