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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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dalmo3 wrote: post #42

Looks like this also took down half of New Zealand's economy. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bank-problems-reports-bnz-asb-...

Same in Australia https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crow...

Banks are down so petrol stations and supermarkets are basically closed. People can't check in to airline flights, various government services including emergency telephone and police are down. Shows how vulnerable these systems are if there's just one failure point taking all those down.

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jmcgough wrote: post #32

My entire emergency department got knocked offline by this. Really scary when you have ambulances coming in and are trying to stabilize a heart attack. Update: 911 is down in Oregon too, no more ambulances at least.

But at least the best instant messaging app in the world Microsoft Teams and the best web browser in the world Microsoft Edge are working fine, right?

Re: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

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BLKNSLVR wrote: post #24

In terms of analysing risk factors to minimise something like this happening again, what are the factors at play here? A Crowdstrike update being able to blue-screen Windows Desktops and Servers. Whilst Crowdstrike are going to cop a potentially existential-threatening amount of blame, an application shouldn't be able to do this kind of damage to an operating system. This makes me think that, maybe, Crowdstrike were…

I feel the need to make a mustang car crowdsrike meme
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