20-07-2024, 11:16 AM
(20-07-2024, 11:01 AM)ppppenguin Wrote: Is there anything special about Windows such that it lacks the ability to recover with some grace from what was a very deep level foul-up? Are Unix-like kernels (in other words Linux, Mac, Android) more robust? Presumably if you prod even the most robust OS in the wrong place it can become FUBAR.It's more complicated than that.
In this case "simply"* manually booting in safe mode and deleting the update file makes the computer able to do a regular boot. The fixed file was available about an hour later, so whatever protection the patch was fixing would only be missing till the computer reconnected to Crowdstrike.
* Some windows systems can't either be easily manually booted to safe mode due to being remote in some awkward fashion (remote access only after booting!) or maybe have safe mode disabled for security reasons, or bitlocker configuration.
I was talking to someone doing security at an International Bank. They had actually switched many computers to an alternate product because of performance issues on Windows.
He writes:
Quote:Today has been a great day for identifying who uses crowdstrike Falcon
Don't have anything that's a single point of failure.
the reality is that it does not protect against crashes and it isn't a cloud based solution.
If it was more like an Microsoft Defender for Cloud then the impact would have been minimal.
