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CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by BartjeD »

rochak wrote: post #161

I haven’t seen a simultaneous outage as big as this in my entire life. I’m just hoping this gets enterprises to move off of Windows.

Except it hasn't got much to do with Windows... its a faulty kernel software package from a commercial vendor unrelated to the OS.

Philosophically it's always good to have diversity, precisely to avoid such disruptions. But the real issue here is: A) Apparently half the world runs CloudStrike... So everything is disrupted. B) Apparently CloudStrike didn't test their update properly.

I'm very curious what will happen to CloudStrike. This seems like a huge liability?

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by ibeff »

jmcgough wrote: post #131

Took down our entire emergency department as we were treating a heart attack. 911 down for our state too. Nowhere for people to be diverted to because the other nearby hospitals are down. Hard to imagine how many millions of not billions of dollars this one bad update caused.

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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by oldmanyells68 »

woodylondon wrote: post #155

CyberStrike offers a temporary solution for crashed systems Cyberstike has given users a potential way to fix their systems. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or the Windows Recovery Environment (you can do that by holding down the F8 key before the Windows logo flashes on screen) Navigate to the C:WindowsSystem32driversCrowdstrike directory Locate the file matching “C-00000291 .sys” file, right click and rename it to “C-0…

Great. now I'll do this 10,000 times.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by DaoVeles »

novaRom wrote: post #136

Chances if Microsoft or Crowdstrike will be held liable for financial losses caused by this outage?

Hypothetically even if they were liable they would bankrupt before even a few percent of damages is recovered. You cannot pluck a bald chicken.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by cromka »

BBC reports: “ The cause is not known - but Microsoft says it's taking mitigation action”.

Most of the media I found say it’s because “cloud infrastructure”. I am yet to see any major source actually factually report this is caused by a bad patch in Crowdstrike software installed on top of Windows.

Gets to show how little competency there is in journalism nowadays. And begs a question how often they misinterpret and misreport things in other fields?

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by dboreham »

techbrovanguard wrote: post #143

i've seen photos of the bsod from an affected machine, the error code is `PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA`. here's some helpful takeaways from this incident: 1) mistakes in kernel-level drivers can and will crash the entire os 2) do not write kernel-level drivers 3) do not write kernel-level drivers 4) do not write kernel-level drivers 5) if you really need a kernel-level driver, do not write it in a memory unsafe langua…

0) don't load a new driver into your working kernel.
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