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Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue (mashable.com)

submitted 3 months ago by farcaster@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 147 points 3 months ago (18 children)

This is why you do staged rollouts of updates... not the entire planet at once.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 70 points 3 months ago (17 children)

And don't have automatic updates enabled for critical infrastructure.

[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So true, this really highlights the risk of updates impacting critical systems vs critical systems being exposed to critical vulnerabilities. Its a real balancing act.

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

It actually highlights the risk of having unaudited third party software running on your critical infrastructure

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