Lol we were using Symantec software so thankfully no affect.
CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
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Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#452So 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…
If I were running an organization that needs these audits, I'd always have fallback procedures in place that would keep everything running even if all computers suddenly stop working, like they did today. General-purpose software is too fragile to be fully relied upon, IMO.
If a general-purpose computer must be used for something mission-critical, it should not have an internet connection and it should definitely not allow an outside organization to remotely push arbitrary kernel-mode code to it. It should probably also boot from a read-only OS image so that it could always be restored to a known-good state by just rebooting.
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#453So apparently "The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed" https://x.com/George_Kurtz/status/1814235001745027317 Yet the chaos seems to continue. Could it be that this fix can't be rolled out automatically to affected machines because they crash during boot - before the Crowdstrike Updater runs?
Yeah, you need to manually fix each affected system by booting in safe mode. Not possible to do remotely.
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#454How long before companies start consciously de-risking by replacing general-purpose systems like Windows with newer systems with smaller attack surfaces? Why does an airline need to use Windows at all for operations? From what I’ve seen, their backend systems are still running on mainframes. The terminals are accessed on PCs running Windows, but those could trivially be replaced with iPadOS devices that are more lock…
They likely run software written for windows, patched together over decades, that wouldn’t port easily to an iPad.
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#455What a fun time to be less than 48 hours out from a transcontinental flight
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#456So where can I buy an ETF of companies specializing in software Quality Assurance?
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#457Sorry to be dense, but what is CrowdStrike and do I have it on my computer?
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#458What's the actual magnitude of this outage? Is there a way to estimate how many machines were down?
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#459I guess people who continue to use Windows in 2024 arguably deserve this, particularly those utilizing it in a production environment.
Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
#460This is what AI's first strike will look like