Windows - Crowdstrike issue

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- On Friday morning, a massive outage affected airlines, TV broadcasters, banks, and other essential services worldwide, linked to CrowdStrike software. - The issue caused Windows machines to display the Blue Screen of Death, with systems falling offline due to a faulty content update. - CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz stated the problem isn't a cyberattack and doesn't affect Mac or Linux machines, but fixing it could take days to weeks. - The outage is tied to CrowdStrike's Falcon platform, which combines multiple security solutions into a single hub. - Independent cybersecurity researcher Lukasz Olejnik noted the interconnected nature of software can lead to single points of failure, complicating recovery efforts. Source: The Verge

- Around 8.5 million Windows devices were impacted by a recent CrowdStrike outage, according to Microsoft VP David Weston. - This is the first official number released, revealing the global scale of the issue caused by a software update. - The outage affected critical sectors like banks, airlines, and rail networks, despite the relatively low percentage of affected devices. - Weston emphasized the broad economic and societal impacts, noting the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises running critical services. - Microsoft and CrowdStrike are collaborating on a scalable solution to accelerate recovery, involving AWS and Google Cloud. Source: Techcrunch

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Windows PC crashing all over. Meanwhile linux users: 😎

All laptops in my team are down. Apparently it's a global issue with Microsoft laptops - others also facing the same?

sick of these companies forcing work from office down our throats, while stifling increments for the last 2yrs saying ‘you get to work from home, save a lot’. now suddenly they want everyone to come back to office, and they conveniently forget that they gave us shitty increments using wfh as an excuse.

One guy brought down entire world on Brink. Flights on Ground, Banking to NoBanking, Hospitals not operational. My question to #Crowdstrike: Do you guys perform testing also on PROD environments. Don't you have any Staging/UAT/BETA env. #crowdstrikefalcon you can connect with me to setup your prod - 1 infrastructure to avoid any such chaos in future. #Crowdstrikeoutage