Very interesting, especially how they’re executing unsigned code via the *.sys files to get around (presumably) get around waiting for MS to re-sign their driver.
CrowdStrike IT Outage Explained by a Windows Developer
Submitted 3 months ago by Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts
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Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
wolfylow@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah this was the main take-away for me, too. You’d expect they’d have ironclad QA when doing shit like this.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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 3 months ago
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 3 months ago
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
0x0@programming.dev 3 months ago
I read somewhere (commentes in that video) that CS ignored their own customer-configured stagger upgrades for some upgrades…
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Their QA worked better than intended, they had tests fail worldwide and tons of results to work off of hahaha
cheddar@programming.dev 3 months ago
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Retrograde@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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wolfylow@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Outstanding. You don’t often see content this good.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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