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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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So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it. My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer startin…

Electricity too is a SPOF.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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When you see the size if the impact across the world, the number of people who will die because hospital, emergency and logistics systems are down…

You don’t need conventional war any more. State actors can just focus on targeting widely deployed “security systems” that will bring down whole economies and bring as much death and financial damage as a missile, while denying any involvement…

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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At one point overnight airlines were calling for an "international ground stop for all flights globally". Planes in the air were unable to get clearance to land or divert. I don't believe such a thing has ever happened before except in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.

Flights have been delayed/canceled. Not as critical as the OP hospital, but not good.

Effecting airlines/brodcasters and banks.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/19/business/global-tech...

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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post #349

So CrowdStrike is deployed as third party software into the critical path of mission critical systems and then left to update itself. It's easy to blame CrowdStrike but that seems too easy on both the orgs that do this but also the upstream forces that compel them to do it. My org which does mission critical healthcare just deployed ZScaler on every computer which is now in the critical path of every computer startin…

Zscaler is truly amazing. It can't do HTTP/2. Our product is HTTP/2-only. So we can't use our own product at work.

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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It's crowdstrike: https://www.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_e... > 7/18/24 10:20PT - Hello everyone - We have widespread reports of BSODs on windows hosts, occurring on multiple sensor versions. Investigating cause. TA will be published shortly. Pinned thread. > SCOPE: EU-1, US-1, US-2 and US-GOV-1 > Edit 10:36PT - TA posted: https://supportportal.crowdstrike.com/s/article/Tech-Alert-W... > Edit 11:2…

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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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An update to the internal database. It still did not sunk to developers that data has equivalent risk as code. A400 crashed because of an XML file update. I have witnessed my share of critical bugs caused by "innocent? updates to "data" which were treated less seriously because of this. Management and devs alike should change their conception about this.
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