OK so we’ve been building this site up over the past few weeks and, aside from a couple of hiccups, things seem to be working fairly well. For those that have been having a look and posting when you can, thank you – and hopefully you remember to keep it up! But I’d also love to get people involved by being as active as they can in the forums and the like, as well as promoting it to anyone who is interested! Please help in making the site as successful as it can be.
CrowdStrike has published a post incident review of the buggy update it published that took down 8.5 million Windows machines last week. The detailed post blames a bug in test software for not properly validating the content update that was pushed out to millions of machines on Friday. CrowdStrike is promising to more thoroughly test its content updates, improve its error handling, and implement a staggered deployment to avoid a repeat of this disaster.
If you noticed the site had a few issues this morning, you were not alone. It’s not clear exactly what broke, but some sort of update process completely overwhelmed our hosting causing it to generate 503 errors. When that settled down, a recovery of our .htaccess file was needed to bring everything back. It’s not entirely clear how it broke, but I suspect the installer system I used to initially install our site had a whoopsie so I’ve made a few changes to try and prevent that from recurring. For now, it seems things are back to normal. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again!
OK so if all has gone to plan, xGeek now has a basic online store! We’re just starting with a few flying monkey t-shirts and mouse mats. So if you want to help support the site, you now can!
On Friday, CrowdStrike pushed out a faulty update that caused millions of Windows devices worldwide to suddenly crash with a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and enter reboot loops. To resolve the fix, admins needed to reboot impacted Windows devices into Safe Mode or the Recovery Environment and manually remove the buggy kernel driver from the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike folder. To help IT admins and support staff, Microsoft has released a custom recovery tool that automates the removal of the buggy CrowdStrike update from Windows devices so that they can once again boot normally.
As long as you’re not running Buttfucker …. er … Bitlocker source
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