Computer security company CrowdStrike is linked to a major IT outage affecting banks, airports, supermarkets and businesses across Australia and the world.
It’s the other way around. All those PCs are bluescreening at boot. So that prevents fixing the system remotely and on a large scale. Now poor IT guys have to fix evey single one by hand.
Missing data in the boot sequence if that data is stored as a cloud init or a key is needed for auth during boot. So if you’re running thin clients and rely on something like Ansible, but now the thin client can’t get to the service it can’t boot, so critical error.
Maybe a stupid question but why would not reaching an online service (?) blue screen your computer?
It’s the other way around. All those PCs are bluescreening at boot. So that prevents fixing the system remotely and on a large scale. Now poor IT guys have to fix evey single one by hand.
It has a privileged service running locally - csagent.sys - that was crashing causing the BSOD.
Missing data in the boot sequence if that data is stored as a cloud init or a key is needed for auth during boot. So if you’re running thin clients and rely on something like Ansible, but now the thin client can’t get to the service it can’t boot, so critical error.
I guess if the code acted as if it got a valid response without checking it could get into a very weird state. Or the code just fails hard.
At the driver level it’s very easy to kill things.