farcastertoNews@lemmy.world·3 months agocross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue(mashable.com)external-linkarrow-up1114arrow-down12message-square8fedilink
arrow-up1112arrow-down1external-linkWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issue(mashable.com)farcastertoNews@lemmy.world·3 months agocross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldmessage-square8fedilink
minus-squaredrcabbagearrow-up4arrow-down0·3 months agolinkfedilinkCrowdstrike has a lot of internal control of your machine in order to do things like hook into the processes you are running to observe any malicious activity. It makes sense that a bug could bring the whole system down.
minus-squarelmaydevarrow-up2arrow-down0·3 months agolinkfedilinkYeah it’s driver level so very small bugs can bring everything down
Crowdstrike has a lot of internal control of your machine in order to do things like hook into the processes you are running to observe any malicious activity. It makes sense that a bug could bring the whole system down.
Yeah it’s driver level so very small bugs can bring everything down