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Posted on 07/19/2024 1:10:25 AM PDT by ifinnegan
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround icon Simon Sharwood Fri 19 Jul 2024 // 06:46 UTC UPDATED An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows.
The Register has found numerous accounts of Windows 10 PCs crashing, displaying the Blue Screen of Death, then being unable to reboot.
“We're seeing BSOD Org wide that are being caused by csagent.sys, and it's taking down critical services. I'll open a ticket, but this is a big deal,” wrote one user.
Forums report that Crowdstrike has issued an advisory with a URL that includes the text "Tech-Alert-Windows-crashes-related-to-Falcon-Sensor-2024-07-19" – but it's behind a regwall that only customers can access.
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It is. Windoze is one HUGE design flaw. I still can't get into my work computer. oh well, they will pay me anyway.It is their problem, not mine.
NO worries.... The coming Central Bank Digital Currency computers will all be protected by CloudStrike.
Absolutely. I don't understand why any business would shackle themselves with something as unreliable as windows. Unfortunately I work for micromanaging idiots who don't actually support real operating systems except on their production money-making servers.
They’ve turned Windows into a toy operating system.
Yup, if you’re not running Crowdstrike enterprise antivirus, you’re not one of the lucky winners of the bsod two step.
Oh joy!
I’m glad I’m not help desk anymore.
I don’t want to think about it.
That they have.
Windows 7 was, after initial hiccups, a rather decent os.
Then they decided to copy the apple interface with 8.
10 they changed how the os interacts with the audio codec for some ungodly reason.
11... I don’t want to talk about how I loath everything they did with it.
“ Normally, I would assume you would have a redundant system…”
That’s what strikes me, that one bad patch can do all this.
That is bad risk management.
I was talking to a co-worker, who is one of the most brilliant people I have worked with in my 37 years at this organization, and he said Crowdstrike is unusual, and said that the way it works could possibly set off a chain reaction...bringing systems down.
If he says it, I believe him!
Ii guess he’s right.
Sr. Sys Eng right now... Working on updating my Security skills to move over to the SOC. 27 years... Oughta be worth something on the forensic side.
I’m wincing thinking about how today went.
The secret service needed to delete files and needed a cover....
Based on what little we have been told, this seems the likely scenario. You're supposed to lock down all the code before you start testing.
A single point of failure for a billion computers. A hacker could not have done this much damage.
With bitlocker in the way and remote workers not online it is a big mess and done by a company founded in 2011 and now worth $72 billion. Founded by a Russian ex-pat and a fbi higher up.
Who do they work for?
Microsoft plans on turning on bitlocker on all new computers for Windows 11 by default with their latest update. I have seen videos where they say this will mean people will lose all their files when they forget the login or bitlocker fails to work. Bitlocker encrypts your files.
I did support and when our company started to use bitlocker that is what happened. They also use Microsoft OneDrive so all the files in microsoft designated locations are uploaded to their servers. One advantage is when you get your computer back after reinstalling Windows and log in then all your files are downloaded back to where they were before.
They only backup Edge web browser bookmarks so if you are like 90%+ of users you will lose them as most use Chrome, Firefox, Vivaldi....You need to save them on the Desktop in a folder for them to be uploaded.
If you have files stored anywhere else other then the desktop and few subfolders they are also lost.
Windows 11 will also record everything you do every 30 seconds. Storing snapshots on your pc. If you believe just on your pc then you believe anything. It is called Recall and microsoft said after the backlash that they have recalled it... for now.
Added benefit is all your personal and corporate files are in safe government and hackers hands. The only positive right now is most pc’s cannot handle the updates.
Windows 11 24h2 release date maybe end of the year.
In short your files and pc are not your own.
ClownStrike!
That happened many years ago.
Remember when the Desktop icon for the computer was "My Computer"?
Then it became just "Computer".
And then it became "This PC" (which looks pretty funny on a server).
The idea that you own your computer is long dead.
One word to describe Windows: Brittle.
True. The real problem is that it is extremely poorly designed from the ground up, and the bolt-on "security" software that has to be added to put lipstick on that pig, is just as bad.
Just the concept of a file being executable based solely on it's name is absolute insanity.
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