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Would Linux Have Helped To Avoid The CrowdStrike Catastrophe? [No]
Opinion: Millions of critical computers and servers around the world went down because CrowdStrike, a major cybersecurity firm that offers enterprise services, pushed a faulty Windows update to its customers’ machines. Airports, banks, public transportation infrastructure, enterprises work computers and servers… Every PC or server that received the faulty update went down for a varying amount of time until it was repaired.
Opinion: Millions of critical computers and servers around the world went down because CrowdStrike, a major cybersecurity firm that offers enterprise services, pushed a faulty Windows update to its customers’ machines. Airports, banks, public transportation infrastructure, enterprises work computers and servers… Every PC or server that received the faulty update went down for a varying amount of time until it was repaired. For example, with the Btrfs filesystem, openSUSE ships with a “snapshot” feature that could have automatically recovered the OS into an earlier state before the faulty update in such situations directly from the boot menu.
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