https://web.archive.org/web/20240719155854/https://www.wired.com/story/crowdstrike-outage-update-windows/

“CrowdStrike is far from the only security firm to trigger Windows crashes with a driver update. Updates to Kaspersky and even Windows’ own built-in antivirus software Windows Defender have caused similar Blue Screen of Death crashes in years past.”

“‘People may now demand changes in this operating model,’ says Jake Williams, vice president of research and development at the cybersecurity consultancy Hunter Strategy. ‘For better or worse, CrowdStrike has just shown why pushing updates without IT intervention is unsustainable.’”

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    3 months ago

    Every time our IT tells PC users to just leave their computer on for X hours so it gets updates, I wonder how that can be a great system.