Brickwizard
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Well what a Palava, Microsoft has done what Hundreds of hackers have failed to do, bring international networks to their knees, well done!
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However, given that the fault has pulled many systems offline and into the blue screen of death, the fix may be laborious and time-consuming for overstretched IT support teams."They have found a way to fix the issue," he says.
"In technical terms, the file is called a channel file, which needs to be deleted, they have provided step by step instructions on how that file has to be deleted."
Given it's a Friday evening in Australia, many IT workers are set to have their weekends ruined, while organisations using CrowdStrike without access to IT support over the weekend may be offline for days."If the systems are online, it can be deleted remotely by IT support," Mr Unni explains.
"If the system is offline then you'll have to get on a phone call with your IT support who will walk you through step by step instruction to do it manually.
"There's a reboot mechanism for systems which are gone offline and someone has to be next to the computer to follow instructions on how to reboot the system. And there is a function called safe module — you boot the system in safe mode and then follow the instructions from IT on how to delete or how to resolve that particular issue, delete the file and then come back online. Unfortunately, as of now, I don't think they have found a way to remotely fix this issue without manual intervention.
"If the system is online, it's a little bit more easier, but we're still not clear whether you can fix the issue in a mass manner across all systems."
Mr Unni urged individuals without IT expertise not to try and resolve the issue by themselves in case they accidentally delete the wrong file in the process and cause other problems."The short answer is, it may take a number of hours, even days, [before systems all come back online].
"Especially it's a Friday afternoon. People have gone home and gone away for the weekend. If you don't have resources, then this could take a very long time to fix and come back to business as usual."
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Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline
The issues have been linked to a CrowdStrike update.www.theverge.com
No they use end users for testing. It#s been like that for decades,,,,,In my opinion, this smells a lot like a hack against the security company in question (even if everyone says it wasn't). A bug like this must have been noticed in the lab during beta testing of the patch, right?
Very possible although too early to say (if at all with certainty).In my opinion, this smells a lot like a hack against the security company in question (even if everyone says it wasn't). A bug like this must have been noticed in the lab during beta testing of the patch, right?