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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 bgnn »

This is a manifestation of almost everything wrong about software development and marketing practices.

I work in hardware development and such a failure is almost impossible to imagine. It has to work, always. It puzzles me why this isn't the casebfor software. My SWE colleagues often get mad at us HW guys because we want to see their test coverage for the firmware/drivers etc.. The focus is having something which compiles and pushing the code to production as fast as possible and then regressing in production. Most of HW problems are a result of this. I found it's often better to go over the firmware myself and read line by line to understand what the code does. It saves so much time from endless debugging sessions later. It pisses of firmware guys, but hey, you have to break some eggs to make an omelette.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by openrisk »

The details (the particular companies / systems etc) of this global incident don't really matter.

When the entire society and economy are being digitized AND that digitisation is controlled and passes through a handful of choke points its an invitation to major disaster.

It is risk management 101, never put all your digital eggs in one (or even a few) baskets.

The love affair with oligopoly, cornered markets and power concentration (which creates abnormal returns for a select few) is priming the rest of us for major disasters.

As a rule of thumb there should be at least ten alternatives in any diversified set of critical infrastructure service providers, all of them instantly replaceable / forced to provide interoperability...

Some truths will hit you in the face again and again until you acknowledge the nature of reality.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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Post by rosege »

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…

fun doing that on thousands of machines
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