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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Jul 19, 24 8:55 am Post subject: oops

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sc03071424
17 minutes ago
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I suppose it could be a Russian hack to disrupt the EPC/Zelenskiy meetings, but BSOD feels very back to the oughties...

ShaunofTheUndead
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sc03071424
9 minutes ago
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If you go to el reg, they have detailed account of issue and also a fix.
Its a barfed file update by crowdstrike, not hackers.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/crowdstrike_falcon_sensor_bsod_incident/

To fix, basically (with admin rightss) delete C

-00000291*.sys

and your good. (Though will need to be in safe mode)

Complications will be that most corporate systems use bitlocker, so carrying out fix is a bit more complicated.

Though without knowing full details, you wonder why tgis wasnt tested before a global update pushed out.

But if you dont use crowdstrike you will not be affected.
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gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8952
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Jul 19, 24 6:37 pm Post subject:
There are comments abounding about a certain ex Tory PM who has gone to work for a very large tech company ....

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Sat Jul 20, 24 3:21 am Post subject:
It's scary really, an entire world vulnerable dues to the inherent crappiness of an operating system that was badly designed in 1982 or thereabouts.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15996

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 24 7:32 am Post subject:
That's why I don't trust computers and am concerned that so much relies on them now. Everything went down because someone made an error. On paper, it takes longer, but at least it is there.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8952
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sat Jul 20, 24 8:03 am Post subject:

jema wrote:

It's scary really, an entire world vulnerable dues to the inherent crappiness of an operating system that was badly designed in 1982 or thereabouts.

So if the OS is bad, why do they not go back to the beginning and design from scratch...

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