CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer (www.youtube.com)
from Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to technology@lemmy.world on 21 Jul 2024 21:19
https://lemmy.ohaa.xyz/post/3522666

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wolfylow@lemmy.world on 21 Jul 2024 22:06 next collapse

Outstanding. You don’t often see content this good.

makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world on 21 Jul 2024 23:15 collapse

It was so good I immediately went to his page and started watching his most viewed videos. This guy rocks

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jul 2024 08:03 collapse

Just keep in mind that some of his content has been proven to be complete bullshit, most notably the NT start menu.

Also, he’s been involved in scam scandal in the past. So do take his stuff with a grain of salt.

Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz on 23 Jul 2024 13:10 collapse

Source?

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 23 Jul 2024 14:07 collapse

I know you may have some sentiment against Twitter, but this is a pretty good post.

twitter.com/TheBobPony/…/1815450972392444241

One of the links included in the post:

atg.wa.gov/…/attorney-general-s-office-sues-settl…

peopleproblems@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 2024 01:04 next collapse

That answered a lot of questions.

I hope they publicly state how they pushed a bad file, but I doubt it.

Seems like someone really didn’t pay attention to what they were doing, and they might have an internal problem with QA.

DudeDudenson@lemmings.world on 22 Jul 2024 01:50 next collapse

Their QA worked better than intended, they had tests fail worldwide and tons of results to work off of hahaha

sunzu@kbin.run on 22 Jul 2024 03:58 collapse

This likely going to be text book case of how to not a run a company in a dominant market position that caused world wide system failures.

Makes you wonder if we should be allowing such consolidtion in critical industries. This ain't even about economics anymore. More of a infrastructure and national security decision.

Or fucking supervivise and train people properly... I don't know. Sounds like management problems.

andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jul 2024 03:22 next collapse

they might have an internal problem with QA.

They don’t have a lack of quality assurance. They have a lack-of-quality assurance.

SauceFlexr@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 2024 03:49 collapse

As someone that works in QA, yeah, they needed something to catch this. I saw someone mention somewhere without a source that they missed it as all test machines have their full suite of software installed. In that scenario, the computer wasn’t affected. So for QA it seems their labs might need to be more in tune with the user base.

However, the fact that they are able to push this so quickly worldwide seems like a big process issue. I get 0 day issues and that is how they justify it. But deploy to a small subset of customers before going global seems more reasonable.

NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Jul 2024 04:01 next collapse

I heard somewhere that the updated ignored staging settings set. So even if companies had it set to only roll out to a subset of their computers it went everywhere

SauceFlexr@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 2024 04:05 collapse

Oof. Then that seems more on the ops side of things. Interesting. I can’t wait for them to never share what happened so we can all continue to speculate. 😂

0x0@programming.dev on 22 Jul 2024 16:27 collapse

I read somewhere (commentes in that video) that CS ignored their own customer-configured stagger upgrades for some upgrades…

dan@upvote.au on 23 Jul 2024 08:02 collapse

Apparently those settings are only for updates to the software itself, not for updates to the definition files.

Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 2024 02:51 next collapse

Very interesting, especially how they’re executing unsigned code via the *.sys files to (presumably) get around waiting for MS to re-sign their driver.

wolfylow@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 2024 06:00 collapse

Yeah this was the main take-away for me, too. You’d expect they’d have ironclad QA when doing shit like this.

cheddar@programming.dev on 22 Jul 2024 08:49 next collapse

This guy is great, I like his channel. Thanks for sharing.

magic_lobster_party@kbin.run on 22 Jul 2024 09:57 next collapse

I like when videos are as direct as this guy’s. Just straight to the point. No extra fluff, distracting skits or drama. It’s just him talking straight to the camera about things he’s passionate about.

PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 2024 21:31 collapse

Good, but why does it have to be video? Blog post or something I can effin’ READ.

tabris@lemmy.world on 22 Jul 2024 22:31 next collapse

Because video creation can be a better source of revenue for creators than a blog post and some people still like to get paid for their expertise?

PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 2024 07:55 collapse

I can’t see videos. Fuck me, right?

loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Jul 2024 09:18 next collapse

Yeah fuck you

And fuck anyone who thinks everything nowdays has to be a video. I’d like to fucking read.

PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 2024 09:29 collapse

Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half, bro.

echodot@feddit.uk on 23 Jul 2024 11:34 next collapse

You really don’t need any visual content you can just listen to it. The only thing he shows is a bit of code and unless you actually understand what you’re looking at it’s meaningless. It just says 0000000000006c

Sleepkever@lemm.ee on 23 Jul 2024 10:02 collapse

It’s just a guy talking 99% of the time and the few visuals that are in the movie are not required to understand the story. I’d just listen to it like a podcast. The guys voice and pronunciation probably beats text to speech from a blogpost with images.

asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 2024 00:45 next collapse

I watched it while doing dishes and it was great for me. I like videos for things that don’t require my undivided attention. If this were about something like programming I’d want code examples and would need to read to digest it.

echodot@feddit.uk on 23 Jul 2024 11:33 collapse

Nah he’s got a soporific voice, so I’m okay with it

Retrograde@lemmy.world on 23 Jul 2024 18:24 collapse

Awesome explanation and instant subscribe