farcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years agoWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up1112arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1112arrow-down1external-linkWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.comfarcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square7linkfedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squaredrcabbage@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoCrowdstrike 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-squarelmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoYeah 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