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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Crowdstrike fiasco Date: 21 Jul 2024 18:42:25 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: <lg534hFesd0U4@mid.individual.net> References: <v7du6n$30rop$1@dont-email.me> <memo.20240721105317.14216c@jgd.cix.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9mXS1XGBRiiqXLlDumCnjg3RvWReqUXc4xEC1EiedPggiziEqH Cancel-Lock: sha1:rta6P2r+8Sf0TOFdGHFR33XoB8E= sha256:U6yhbLipByekaefXfLadGgXXK4fyaX7YKmMsjXwRLx8= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 1578 On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:53 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote: > In article <v7du6n$30rop$1@dont-email.me>, jmccue@hairball.jmcunx.com > (John McCue) wrote: >> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> > Pardon my ignorance, but what has crowdstrike got to do with Windows? >> >> My understanding, Microsoft "outsourced" somekind of security function >> to croudstrike, so just about all corporate Windows systems may have >> this binary from croudstrike. > > Not so. Crowdstrike is a commercial product, and in no way compulsory. > At my employer, Windows servers have it, and some got hit, but Windows > laptops and desktops do not, and were unaffected. And to expand, CrowdStrike claims a 18.5% market share so the majority of servers with an EDR solution weren't affected.