Wait, I was like gone at camp. What happened? What’s going on with the IT thing?
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tl;dr crowdstrike devs (it’s an anti ddos thing) sent out an update which broke a critical component of the software, csagent, which loads in the kernel, that caused a bugcheck fail and a bootloop + BSOD on all windows systems protected by the crowdstrike endpoint protection
this fatal error made by the software’s developers caused a lot of chaos all over the world, with a bunch of important online services being down: such as most importane european and american airlines, hospitals, and a bunch more
also the traffic lights in my town stopped working for about the entire morning
CrowdStrike is not for mitigating DDoS attacks. It’s endpoint security, basically does anti-virus stuff and checking device posture. Also traffic lights not working is very interesting, I’ve never heard of any traffic lights using a full-blown OS (not even Linux).
i’m pretty sure the traffic lights control is centralized but i really don’t know to be honest.
it may just have been a coincidence
CrowdStrike Windows-running PCs got an update that glitched. Now, 911 response systems, flight systems (excluding Southwest Airlines), and companies’ cloud systems are down.