I heard that CloudStrike is something that runs on Windows servers, and an error with it caused a bunch of Win Servers to crash. What’s the impact of the issue too?
I’m not a tech person, tho I do use Linux desktop, btw 😉
Intrinsic trust in outside actors in the kernel is a bad idea.
State actors wish they could fuck shit up like Microsoft.
To add to these guys, what it looked like in hospitals was all computers going blue screen of death on a loop. You would reboot and it would get to the desktop and go BSOD again. Communications with windows servers also went down.
The problem is, the safety plans are contingent on having windows working. There’s little to no contingent on no windows, people just expect it to always be there.
I and my team and all the individuals we ended up responsible for were fine by morning, but it was not a safe time.
911 was affected. Ambulance dispatch was affected. Many medical based institutions rely on windows and these security systems as well as airlines and such.
That said, please check on grandma, your favorite old uncle, single parent living solo, and all the rest today. There is no telling how many people are dead or injured in homes right now who couldn’t get through to emergency services last night. Maybe still can’t today.
There is no telling how many people are dead or injured in homes right now who couldn’t get through to emergency services last night.
Waooooowww. I hadn’t realized how harmful this issue was. It sounds like CloudStrike’s future is bleak.
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No, the same security has all that shut off for anyone but IT.
**Clown Strike
Big time AV software used by a lot of conpanies issued an update that crashed all windows machines it was installed on. The only way to fix it is to boot into safe mode and then delete a file. On millions upon millions of servers and pcs. One by one.
Including Mercedes formula1 team lol.
Crowd strike is an antivirus program that is installed on servers and laptops/desktops. The update corrupted a file that caused the operating system not to boot. The impact is thousands of hours of manual labor to recover these servers and endpoints. You have to do it in person unless your user is tech savvy enough to get into safe mode and delete a file. And you need admin rights
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Edit: I got the name (Crowd Strike) and some basic facts wrong. There are other, better answers here.
I’m guessing the 33% vote rate is due to your intro, not your explanations?
I got the name (Crowd Strike actually) and some basic facts wrong, and the intro probably didn’t come off the way I meant it to.
