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Looks like this also took down half of New Zealand's economy. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bank-problems-reports-bnz-asb-...
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…
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.
Here's a visual representation of flight cancellations and delays at major US airports https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/
It's unfortunate, the ambulances are still running in our area of responsibility, but it's highly likely that the hospitals they are delivering patients to are in absolute chaos.
Wow, this hits close to home. Doing a page fault where you can't in the kernel is exactly what I did with my very first patch I submitted after I joined the Microsoft BitLocker team in 2009. I added a check on the driver initialization path and didn't annotate the code as non-paged because frankly I didn't know at the time that the Windows kernel was paged. All my kernel development experience up to that point was wi…
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.
I hope organisations start revisiting some of these insane decisions.
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.