A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.
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.
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.
Maybe a stupid question but why would not reaching an online service (?) blue screen your computer?
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.
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.