Wait, I was like gone at camp. What happened? What’s going on with the IT thing?
Wait, I was like gone at camp. What happened? What’s going on with the IT thing?
tl;dr crowdstrike devs (it’s an anti ddos thing) sent out an update which broke a critical component of the software, csagent, which loads in the kernel, that caused a bugcheck fail and a bootloop + BSOD on all windows systems protected by the crowdstrike endpoint protection
this fatal error made by the software’s developers caused a lot of chaos all over the world, with a bunch of important online services being down: such as most importane european and american airlines, hospitals, and a bunch more
also the traffic lights in my town stopped working for about the entire morning
CrowdStrike is not for mitigating DDoS attacks. It’s endpoint security, basically does anti-virus stuff and checking device posture. Also traffic lights not working is very interesting, I’ve never heard of any traffic lights using a full-blown OS (not even Linux).
i’m pretty sure the traffic lights control is centralized but i really don’t know to be honest.
it may just have been a coincidence
CrowdStrike Windows-running PCs got an update that glitched. Now, 911 response systems, flight systems (excluding Southwest Airlines), and companies’ cloud systems are down.
One day everything was working fine, and the next it was not