@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 months agoWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.commessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1523cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1523external-linkWindows PCs crashing worldwide due to CrowdStrike issuemashable.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 months agomessage-square70fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish110•5 months agoIt’s basically corporate anti-virus software. Intended to detect and prevent malware.
minus-squareAlimentarlinkfedilinkEnglish31•5 months agoApparently it’s the next iteration of AI based antivirus where it uses smart algorithms to detect system behaviours and makes assessments on whether they’re malicious or not
minus-squareBoxscapelinkfedilinkEnglish36•5 months ago Apparently it’s the next iteration of AI based antivirus CrowdskyStrikenet
minus-squaresukotailinkfedilinkEnglish11•5 months agoobviously, A.I consider microsoft as a malicious software. Sometimes, A.I is very accurate 😁
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoIs it less expensive than ransomware though?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoRansomware you have to pay $10,000 every few years. Crowdstrike you have to pay $1,000 per month. Same number of outages for both. /s
minus-squareThe QuuuuuilllinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 months agoAdd some extra zeroes to that ransomware figure…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoCan you tell whether this update was delivered by Crowdstrike’s own update delivery pipeline of via Window’s update pipeline?
minus-squareThe QuuuuuilllinkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoAbsolutely nothing to do with windows pipelines or Microsoft
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•5 months agoOkay, thanks. There was a parallel Microsoft outage, so I thought they were somehow linked.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoCrowdstrike updates don’t come through Windows Update.
It’s basically corporate anti-virus software. Intended to detect and prevent malware.
Apparently it’s the next iteration of AI based antivirus where it uses smart algorithms to detect system behaviours and makes assessments on whether they’re malicious or not
CrowdskyStrikenet
obviously, A.I consider microsoft as a malicious software. Sometimes, A.I is very accurate 😁
Is it less expensive than ransomware though?
Yes
By a wide margin
Ransomware you have to pay $10,000 every few years. Crowdstrike you have to pay $1,000 per month. Same number of outages for both. /s
Add some extra zeroes to that ransomware figure…
Can you tell whether this update was delivered by Crowdstrike’s own update delivery pipeline of via Window’s update pipeline?
Absolutely nothing to do with windows pipelines or Microsoft
Okay, thanks. There was a parallel Microsoft outage, so I thought they were somehow linked.
Crowdstrike updates don’t come through Windows Update.