Hello, security engineer that has installed CrowdStrike on thousands of computers.
A thread on the outage and what is exactly happening.
Here’s a quick explainer on what *seems* to be the cause of the CrowdStrike outage and why it happened so quickly.
No, they actually just pushed out a bugged driver that they use to hook into the windows kernel. Turned out to be nothing to do with the realtime A/V feed. Which is honestly funnier because there is NO reason to push that type of update out worldwide in one go, it should be done in stages to catch bugs like this before they go global...
The OP thread talked about it just below the "Load More Replies" fold
No, they actually just pushed out a bugged driver that they use to hook into the windows kernel. Turned out to be nothing to do with the realtime A/V feed. Which is honestly funnier because there is NO reason to push that type of update out worldwide in one go, it should be done in stages to catch bugs like this before they go global...
The OP thread talked about it just below the "Load More Replies" fold