Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in 1981, with the love affair starting on a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and a book on ZX Basic. He ended up becoming a physics and IT teacher, but by the late 1990s decided it was time to cut his teeth writing for a long defunct UK tech site.
, caused by a bug in an anti-hacking software package, some people thought only PCs running Windows were being hit with the BSOD . It turns out that CrowdStrike's Falcon program has been doing the same to Linux systems, taking down client and server machines.
The news of CrowdStrike's woes not being limited to Windows installations was reported by the Register and it confirms what was already suspected in last week's IT outages that spanned the globe—it wasn't a Windows problem at all but entirely down to a separate piece of software. The application in question, CrowdStrike Falcon, is basically an anti-hacking/malware package used by countless businesses, large and small, and government institutions and services.
Software bugs are so common that anyone using a computer just accepts them as being part and parcel of the modern IT world. But there is a big difference between an application having a few glitches and one that causes the operating system's kernel to bail out. And given how widely used CrowdStrike's software is, that difference is even more important.
I should imagine that this is common practice but after seeing the level of impact that the Falcon update had on Friday, it's perhaps not as common as I think. I'm not suggesting that the problem was, in part, the fault of IT system managers , but I can't help but feel that if you're managing a system that cannot go down for any reason, then you never let an update get rolled out without testing it first.is yet to be determined but I'm pretty sure about some things, though.
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