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CrowdStrike Update Causes Global Microsoft Outage Affecting Banks, Airlines And More (www.forbes.com)

submitted 3 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A global Microsoft Windows outage, caused by a CrowdStrike software update, has disrupted airlines, banking services, and 911 lines, leading to grounded flights and long queues.
The issue resulted in many systems experiencing the “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD), affecting major carriers and airports worldwide, and also impacted the London Stock Exchange and Australian banking systems.
CrowdStrike has identified and isolated the defect, deploying a fix, but recovery is expected to be slow due to the need for manual intervention on affected devices.

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[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 77 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who knew that allowing, no, PAYING third parties to inject whatever the fuck they want encrypted proprietary binary blobs into the highest privilege and most dangerous level of your operating system without any user acknowledgement or third party code review could possibly have negative consequences?

This is also why we shouldn't be allowing kernel anticheat games on our PCs by the way. One day Crowdstrike, the next day it could be Riot Vanguard. Proprietary shitware has no place in your kernel (though in Windows' case the entire kernel itself is proprietary, maybe do something about that next).

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Riot is going to take down infrastructure.

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

They can take down people's computer though?