“It’s time to put on your seatbelt because it’s about to get a little rough and tumble”

Discover the full story behind the CrowdStrike update that took so much of the world’s infrastructure down

What a mess. Everything that could have gone wrong actually did go wrong. And the response from the manufacturer leaves many questions unanswered. I’m not, of course, referring to the disappointing chocolate digestive I’ve just eaten, but to the CrowdStrike calamity. The one that managed to take down whole chunks of the internet services platform on a global scale. As was widely reported, Windows computers received an update to their CrowdStrike Falcon installation, and then blue-screen crashed. Rebooting the computer didn’t help. Recovery has usually involved booting the computer into Safe Mode, deleting some files and rebooting, and thus has required hands-on access (unless you had some sort of remote management out-of-bounds access as often found on rack-mounted servers). To understand what happened, we need to look under the Windows hood. Like most…

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