https://web.archive.org/web/20240719155854/https://www.wired.com/story/crowdstrike-outage-update-windows/

“CrowdStrike is far from the only security firm to trigger Windows crashes with a driver update. Updates to Kaspersky and even Windows’ own built-in antivirus software Windows Defender have caused similar Blue Screen of Death crashes in years past.”

“‘People may now demand changes in this operating model,’ says Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at the cybersecurity consultancy Hunter Strategy. ‘For better or worse, CrowdStrike has just shown why pushing updates without IT intervention is unsustainable.’”

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    5 months ago

    Have you read anything about this? A file deletion is the workaround for affected hosts, silly!

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        5 months ago

        I was just trying to point out that you implied a file deletion is what’s causing this, and Linux wouldn’t crash. This fault is fixed by deleting a file, ironically