Microsoft's USB Lifeline: Rescuing Millions from the CrowdStrike BSOD
Microsoft released a recovery tool to help automate repairs using a bootable USB drive or network boot, while CrowdStrike has set up a remediation hub for affected customers. The incident impacted critical services, including hospitals, emergency services, and enterprise systems across various cloud platforms.
Andrew Cunningham writes for Ars Technica
The CrowdStrike outage didn't just delay flights and make it harder to order coffee. It also affected doctor's offices and hospitals, 911 emergency services, hotel check-in and key card systems, and work-issued computers that were online and grabbing updates when the flawed update was sent out. In addition to providing fixes for client PCs and virtual machines hosted in its Azure cloud, Microsoft says it has been working with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and "other cloud providers and stakeholders" to provide fixes to Windows VMs running in its competitors' clouds.