Ira: Hello, security engineer that has installed CrowdStrike on thousands of computers. A thread on the outage and what is exactly happening. Here’s a quick explainer on what *seems* to be the cause of the CrowdStrike outage and why it happened so quickly. — Subium • Bluesky web client
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Hello, security engineer that has installed CrowdStrike on thousands of computers. A thread on the outage and what is exactly happening. Here’s a quick explainer on what *seems* to be the cause of the CrowdStrike outage and why it happened so quickly.
  • Chronicon [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    Distros often do automate it, they're just better at it than windows so you don't notice lol (and they usually only enable it by default for security updates, which is the sane way to do it IMO) ubuntu/debian have unattended-upgrade, DNF distros like fedora, rhel-likes, etc have dnf-automatic.

    I've never had one break something.

    • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Maybe it's just a case of me not knowing where to look, I'm on Debian and I always have to upgrade everything manually.

      • Chronicon [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        you can configure it manually

        or some basic configuration options should be available through "software-properties-gtk" under the Updates tab (unsure if this is preinstalled or not, but it is available from apt. It also might show up as "Software & Updates" in the GUI)

        I don't know if debian does security updates automatically by default, I've only used it on servers lately