CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/?guccounter=1
Several people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.
Took me a few hours to figure this out, figured I'd pass it along. Forgive formatting, I'm on mobile.
How to Bypass Bitlocker for Crowdstrike BSoD
Only use this if the Bitlocker key is lost.
From the Bitlocker screen, select Skip This Drive. A command prompt will appear.
Type bcdedit /set {default} safeboot network and press Enter.
Type Exit to exit the command prompt, then select Shut Down
Hardwire the device to the network
Login as an admin account
Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Crowdstrike and delete C:\windows\system32\drivers\crowdstrike\c-00000291-*.sys
Win+R to open the Run menu, then type msconfig and press Enter
Go to Boot
Uncheck the box for SafeBoot
You will receive a warning about Bitlocker. Proceed.
Click OK and you will be prompted to restart. Do so.
Have the user login
Test their access to files
I know this isn't a meme community but this sums it up
To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says
https://www.404media.co/to-fix-crowdstrike-blue-screen-of-death-simply-reboot-15-straight-times-microsoft-says/
The advice, which is specifically for virtual machines using Azure, shows that sometimes the solution to a catastrophic failure is turn it off and on again. And again.
Latest Crowdstrike Update Causes Blue Screen Of Death On Microsoft Windows, Multiple Users Affected
https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/latest-crowdstrike-update-causes-blue-screen-of-death-on-microsoft-windows-multiple-users-affected-article-111854018
Latest Crowdstrike Update Issue: The issue seems widespread, affecting machines running various CrowdStrike sensor versions. CrowdStrike has acknowledged the problem and is currently investigating the cause., Technology & Science News - Times Now
Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/technology-shutdown-abc-media-banks-institutions/104119960
A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.
Vulnerability in Cisco Smart Software Manager lets attackers change any user password
Vulnerability in Cisco Smart Software Manager lets attackers change any user password
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/vulnerability-in-cisco-smart-software-manager-lets-attackers-change-any-user-password/
Yep, passwords for administrators can be changed, too.
It keeps showing Internal server error and has been for over 2 hours now. I tested from different locations (China, US, EU) and same errors everywhere. Yet I don't see any news or posts about this anywhere. I have an exchange server that needs installing today and I can't download the prerequisites to even launch the install. Sigh
Just a quick fyi for anyone using Intune to distribute firewall rules with the "Endpoint Protection > Windows Firewall" profile for the first time.
Any rules you set won't be visible in the wf.msc GUI or using PowerShell's Get-NetFirewallRule.
The only place you can see those rules is the registry under this key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\Mdm\FirewallRules
BusKill Canary #8 - BusKill
https://www.buskill.in/canary-008/
This post contains the cryptographically-signed BusKill warrant canary #008 for June 2024 to January 2025.
