Crazy-Black Outage

Trying to break down the CrowdStrike Microsoft outage scene to the best of my knowledge CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor is a popular cybersecurity tool that is often installed on Windows systems One of the latest updates to CrowdStrike introduced a bug that caused the sensor to flag completely.

This is likely due to a kernel level driver update which suggests an architectural flaw from Microsoft

So, basically Crowdstrike is like the anti-cheat of the corporate world. Imagine a faulty update in Valorant causing your device not to boot.

Same kind of kinda thing happening.

Can we fix it ?

You must reset it manually for every single affected server so if you have 5000 servers which is common for mid range companies, you have to go and manually fix each computer. The fix involves booting into Safe Mode. Most server computers have Safe Mode disabled if they use BitLocker encryption, and in that case you'll need to boot to rescue using a USB, but still you need windows activation key for every computer because this is corporate world and they don't pirate windows there (I think so)

So imagine holding 5000 activation keys and entering them on all computers :-)

Oh and the 5000 examples I found from Prime Stream are for just one person literally half way down the world now flights aren't operating banks aren't running banking companies can't push code.

Now you are thinking to fix it . What about others?

You know , every affected computer needs to be rebooted in fail mode and have a driver manually removed.Now tell how many pupil can do it ? , Reality is those people know how to do it are actually using Linux , they don't understand that pain. How a aircraft official, banking officials can do it ? 😞

All microsoft fault?

Microsoft didn't auto install the software. So it's Crowdstrike who released an update for windows that had a bug . The patch runs in kernel mode to monitor system activity at low level. Obviously, microsoft also gets some credit for this .

So It's a funny - black incident occurred worldwide 😜(Some LinkedIn post makes it really 🤣 crazy 🤣)

Vincent Flibustier LinkedIn post is a joke folks . Really crazy things happened.