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Faulty Windows Update from CrowdStrike Hits Banks and Airlines Around the World

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A faulty software update to enterprise computers by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has taken millions of computers offline, most of which are in a commercial or enterprise environment, or are Azure deployments. CrowdStrike provides periodic software and security updates to commercial PCs, enterprise PCs, and cloud instances, with a high degree of automation. The latest update reportedly breaks the Windows bootloader, causing bluescreens of death (BSODs), and if configured, invokes Windows Recovery. Enterprises tend to bulletproof the bootloaders of their client machines, and disable generic Windows Recovery tools from Microsoft, which means businesses around the world are left with large numbers of machines that will each take manual fixing. The so-called "Windows CrowdStrike BSOD deluge" has hit critical businesses such as banks, airlines, supermarket chains, and TV broadcasters. Meanwhile, sysadmins on Reddit are wishing each other a happy weekend.
Source: The Verge

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234 Comments on Faulty Windows Update from CrowdStrike Hits Banks and Airlines Around the World

#226
sepheronx
Thanks to crowdstrike, I am getting unlimited OT. I mean, I will now be able to afford an Xbox series S for emulation.
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#227
64K
sepheronxThanks to crowdstrike, I am getting unlimited OT. I mean, I will now be able to afford an Xbox series S for emulation.
Send them a Thank You card. :laugh:
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#228
Count von Schwalbe
Caring1Did you skip the previous page where this was posted twice already?
Ep2 I think.
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#229
DaemonForce
sepheronxThanks to crowdstrike, I am getting unlimited OT. I mean, I will now be able to afford an Xbox series S for emulation.
I managed to hear this from ONE GUY the other day. So it turns out I do know someone that has had to deal with this one.
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#230
sepheronx
64KSend them a Thank You card. :laugh:
A picture of me with my shiny new Xbox series S with a heart drawn with red lipstick on the photo.
DaemonForceI managed to hear this from ONE GUY the other day. So it turns out I do know someone that has had to deal with this one.
There are lots of us. We are everywhere. We could be in your house right now.

Better check your closet.
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#231
Jacky_BEL
Caring1Did you skip the previous page where this was posted twice already?
Nah, he is wearing a different shirt.
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#232
Ahhzz
DaemonForceI managed to hear this from ONE GUY the other day. So it turns out I do know someone that has had to deal with this one.
We have one client (two users local to us) whose Corporate uses this: i got contacted early by their IT as a possible issue to deal with, sent her the info I had gotten earlier that morning regarding the workaround. When I did actually have to address it on one user, their IT and I spoke, and she thanked me for saving her hours. The directions I had sent were MUCH easier and quicker than whatever Crowdstrike had sent them, and it apparently cut her per user time by more than half.
Only other user I had was a home user on an Optiplex. Apparently, at the time we had gotten it for her, Dell was loading it at the factory. When my boss called and said "She's convinced it's Crowdstrike", I said "No way. But I'll take care of it". He described it and I said... "sounds like it.. surely not...". Sure enough: Crowdstrike. Fixed it and uninstalled by brute force (CS requires a "key" to uninstall). Clients happy.
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#233
remixedcat
AhhzzWe have one client (two users local to us) whose Corporate uses this: i got contacted early by their IT as a possible issue to deal with, sent her the info I had gotten earlier that morning regarding the workaround. When I did actually have to address it on one user, their IT and I spoke, and she thanked me for saving her hours. The directions I had sent were MUCH easier and quicker than whatever Crowdstrike had sent them, and it apparently cut her per user time by more than half.
Only other user I had was a home user on an Optiplex. Apparently, at the time we had gotten it for her, Dell was loading it at the factory. When my boss called and said "She's convinced it's Crowdstrike", I said "No way. But I'll take care of it". He described it and I said... "sounds like it.. surely not...". Sure enough: Crowdstrike. Fixed it and uninstalled by brute force (CS requires a "key" to uninstall). Clients happy.
dell also has their own recovery built in as well... cSOS or something like that... (or supportassist branded) too. One of the places I clean had an optiplex that was in that mode and half the other systems there were blue screened.

and yeah dell has the crowdstrike option for pre-loading in adddion to macafee too bu it's not enabled by default tho so they may have selected to have it installed by accident...

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