CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.

Windows machines won’t boot, and Mac and Linux work is abandoned because all their users are on twitter making memes.

Incredible work.

  • cheesepotatoes
    131•2 months ago

    Good lord I would hope critical surgical computers like that aren’t networked externally… Somehow I’m guessing I’m wrong.

    • @[email protected]
      119•2 months ago

      Fear not, that’s why we deploy extra security software to these critical systems. It’s called Crowdsource or something.

    • Wilshire
      52•2 months ago

      Maybe not everywhere, but all of ours are air gapped.

    • FlowerTree
      13•2 months ago

      Critical surgery computers may also be running under Windows LTSC, so they might not get the CrowdStrike patch. Maybe…

      Edit: So the issue is apparently caused by CrowdStrike. So, unless the surgery computers also use CrowdStrike then it would be fine. Unless, of course, if they use CrowdStrike on surgery computers…

    • @[email protected]English
      7•2 months ago

      I’d heard some hospitals were affected. They cancelled appointments and non-critical surgeries.

      I’m guessing it was mostly their “behind the desk” computers that got affected, not the computers used to control the important stuff. The computers in patients’ rooms may have been affected as well, but (at least in the US) those are usually just used to record information about medicine given and other details about the patient, nothing critical that can’t be done manually.