A widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue on Windows PCs disrupted operations across various sectors, notably impacting airlines, banks, and healthcare providers. The issue was caused by a problematic channel file delivered via an update from the popular cybersecurity service provider, CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike confirmed that this crash did not impact Mac or Linux PCs.
It turns out that similar problems have been occurring for months without much awareness, despite the fact that many may view this as an isolated incident. Users of Debian and Rocky Linux also experienced significant disruptions as a result of CrowdStrike updates, raising serious concerns about the company’s software update and testing procedures. These occurrences highlight potential risks for customers who rely on their products daily.
The software is not the problem. Software breaks all the time. The problem is monocultures and centralization. Building entire industry ecosystems all around a single point of failure. This is the just-in-time manufacturing supply chain disruptions and fragility all over again.
Who knew, a diverse ecosystem was a strength, not a weakness.
The software is the problem if it’s produced with a corporate mentality of “ship first, fix later”.
Yep, at this point the “security” companies can do with imitating malware development practices.
also doesn’t help when CEO of said company isn’t a fan of testing or code reviews and IS a fan of crunch and speedy development. One of the reasons that whole mcafee snafu also happened. He believed development at Mcafee was too slow.
Everyone got an MBA and failed to realize it was just corporate brainwashing.
Nature has been telling us all long, but we don’t listen!