CATS Fellow, Senior Researcher at Center on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection | Member of Department of International Relations at Kadir Has University
Our Microsoft Windows-installed computers are crashing because of a software problem caused by a product they outsourced from CrowdStrike. The issue, a Crowdstrike driver problem in Windows systems, is causing a bugcheck\blue screen error. This issue concerns the Falcon Sensor, a key component of CrowdStrike Falcon. The company noticed the problem in the early hours and published an announcement. "Symptoms include experiencing a bugcheck\blue screen error related to the Falcon Sensor," CrowdStrike's alert continued. "Our Engineering teams are actively working to resolve this issue, and there is no need to open a support ticket." CrowdStrike is a web/cloud-based anti-virus that uses very little storage space on your machine. The company calls this technology CrowdStrike Falcon. CrowdStrike installs a lightweight sensor on your machine that is less than 5MB and is entirely invisible to the end user, ensuring your security without intruding on your experience. The driver problem of CrowdStrike Falcon has created BSoD for Windows computers. This issue, while specifically causing Windows to crash, also has further-reaching implications. Given the prevalence of Windows as an operating system and CrowdStrike as a top-rated cybersecurity company, multiple companies and services are experiencing outages due to their computers being down. This underscores the #urgency of the situation and the need for a swift resolution. Arda Büyükkaya, a Turkish #cybersecurity expert, has provided a simple and effective ad hoc solution to the problem: Please check the codes and implement them in your responsibility. Since each system has different components, first test the codes in your systems and then use them until Crowdstrike comes up with a final solution. https://lnkd.in/d6JHRHvH https://lnkd.in/dCUymHAY
