Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue
Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue
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Windows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue
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Can someone in non marketing terms explain what the fuck CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor is? I literally never heard of this company or product before.
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It's basically corporate anti-virus software. Intended to detect and prevent malware.
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Apparently it's the next iteration of AI based antivirus where it uses smart algorithms to detect system behaviours and makes assessments on whether they're malicious or not
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Is it less expensive than ransomware though?
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Can you tell whether this update was delivered by Crowdstrike's own update delivery pipeline of via Window's update pipeline?
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It checks for malicious falcons in your system's level 4 aviary cache.
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Ha ha! Well done!
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I work in QA on the night shift at a video game company. It was absolute chaos at work tonight lmao we only had a grand total of 6 working PCs between all of us
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Company spyware. We have that on our devices. They used to have an “about” stored locally on the app, but removed it and a web connection is required to view the docs. Basically says it downloads/sees everything on your device and checks for threats. Thing is a few people have been fired for having things in their devices they shouldn’t. I didn’t ask what it was, nor did I hear how these things were “threats”, but nonetheless they were fired. Too many people treat company hardware like “free device, bro!” and put all sorts of personal stuff on the device. Most industries it’s probably not too big of a deal, but for mine if there’s an incident that happens when you were busy watching Netflix or something instead of doing your job you’re fucked. First thing they’ll do is check your device and crowdstrike to see what you were doing, and even if you weren't watching Netflix all your personal data will be exposed.
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They definitely could, but most cybersecurity departments are paid too much to worry about minor items like that. If HR tells us to look into a specific user and gets the proper approvals so that everything is in compliance, we'll definitely get someone on the team to do it, but otherwise if we happen to see evidence of unapproved usage, we're mostly going to overlook it unless it could lead to something dangerous to your machine or the company as a whole.
EDRs like Crowdstrike can see very very nearly everything you do though, definitely everything you would care about.
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Yikes. I feel sorry for all the help desk and support staff that has to deal with this chaotic mess all day.
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What a striking name... CrowdStrike heh. They definitely live up to it!
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More like CrashStrike
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Ca-caw!
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Looking forward to the Kevin Fang video in a few years.
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Crowstrike Onstrike
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Crowd Strike's Final Fantasy
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That’s a shame.
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So cool
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This is why you do staged rollouts of updates... not the entire planet at once.
And don't have automatic updates enabled for critical infrastructure.
So true, this really highlights the risk of updates impacting critical systems vs critical systems being exposed to critical vulnerabilities. Its a real balancing act.
No, you run Linux with automatic secutity updates turned on