CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

Post by rsync » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 6:45 PM UTC

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.

Post by jonplackett » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 6:48 PM UTC

Post by rustcleaner » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 6:52 PM UTC

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…

Post by smsm42 » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 6:55 PM UTC

tbatchelli wrote: post #665

This event is predicted in Sydney Dekker’s book “Drift into Failure”, which basically postulates that in order to prevent local failure we setup failure prevention systems that increase the complexity beyond our ability to handle, and introduce systemic failures that are global. It’s a sobering book to read if you ever thought we could make systems fault tolerant.

Post by drhelix » Fri, Jul 19, 2024, 7:01 PM UTC

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.