And that's how millions of devices went offline with no easy recovery

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Yeahboy92@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It's easy to recover... if you're on site.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y

It depends on how many machines and how many sites. Companies like Walmart and Home Depot could be in trouble. I don't actually know if they use Crowdstrike

hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 2y

Or if you have ipmi/bmc/lom. 🤷‍♀️

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If only half the machines went down today, it'd be a 50% improvement.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y

Rip

Pyro@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I don't get it?

RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They updated a cloud security service and managed to break a huge part of the Internet by making software inoperable.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2y

Not just inoperable as they made the machines unusable and unfixable (at least remotely)