farcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1114cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1114external-linkWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.comfarcaster@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square8fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squarelmaydev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·5 months agoIt’s a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
minus-squaredrcabbage@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months 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-up2·5 months agoYeah it’s driver level so very small bugs can bring everything down
It’s a third party piece of software causing the issues though.
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