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.
Crowdstrike Falcon was implemented by the best & brightest cheap Indian labor can provide?
I looked into Crowdstrike a few years ago as an enhancement to my home network.
Got bad vibs.
Thanks to MikelTackNailer for the ping!
Ping.
Yep... It’s not hard to do, but now consider how many people barely know how to turn their machines ON...
My companies help desk has an all hands “help us” alert out.
Thankfully, most of our clients went with Sentinel 1 over Crowdstrike... but we still have a few.
This is what you get with an IT monoculture of Windows everywhere.
Exactly. I’ve just left the bar and the trains are running fine here. IDGAF. ;)
If Apple were the mainstay in the Enterprise world that Microsoft is, then Apple would be having the same issues, just like Linux or other major players in the IT world.
Paraphrasing an old saying, why do people rob banks, because that’s where the money is.
Why does Microsoft have these problems, because attacking Enterprises running Windows software are the majority of enterprise sites, taking down Windows environments causes the most damage.
I guess the software testing folks were out on vacation the day this “upgrade” was approved.
Large networking saves a ton of money when it works. But it messes stuff up fast when it doesn’t.
I worked in a hospital and it was amazing to see how the world came to a stop when there was an IT issue. Staff is not always trained in “down time” procedures. And recovering from even a short outage takes days to get ALL of the coding and information put into the system when it comes back.
I don’t think the administration analyzes the cost of down time vs having more local control.
“Cloud computing is the future...”
“I guess the software testing folks were out on vacation the day this ‘upgrade’ was approved.”
Or maybe the to time off to do their side hustle as Temp. Secret Serve Agents.
It’s a .sys file error. Boot, F8, select Safe Mode with Networking, login with LM Admin account. Go find and remove the C:\windows\syste32\cs#.sys file and rename it something else. Reboot.
You can do a search/Advanced and sort by date.
Cloud computing is the future until it’s not anymore.
I’ve been around the IT world long enough to see ideas that are hot right now become outdated in the future and ideas that are outdated right now become the hot new technology
The concept of cloud computing is not new, it’s been around since the late 70s, back then it was called service bureaus, a single mainframe providing computing services to other companies via a communication network, back then using dial up modems or dedicated comm lines
Bump for later
Don’t get me going on “Cloud” technology. The only reason for keeping things in the “cloud” is so someone else can control your data, your computing experience. I’ve always been an advocate for keeping my data close at hand, locally on an external storage device. I also keep that data safely kept ina Faraday bag/container. This is just a foreshadow of things to come. Trust me on that.
See: Hanlon’s Razor
thats a lot better plan than ‘lets test in production on a friday’
How, HOW does the functional testing at Crowdstrike not include INSTALL UPDATE AND RESTART. How, how how how how how how. Business negligence in the 1st degree.
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