Tech outage brings massive disruption worldwide including major air carriers to full stop (2 Viewers)

[bonnjer]

PULEEAASE Tell me that’s real…

Related side note: I predict SWA is going to be targeted for a cyber attack soon. Windows 3.1 and 95 were not developed with internet security in mind at all. I’m willing to bet SWA doesn’t have them all properly isolated in virtual machines. Heck, I bet many of them are on the original hardware.

Only one of my customers was impacted. Fortunately our software catalogs bitlocker keys for easy retrieval. I think we’re going to see a lot of companies that didn’t do that one simple thing.

Some of our customers have newer desktops with intel vPro. They were able to script and automate the deletion of the Crowdstrike file for a quick recovery.

It's completely wild to think that a major airline is basically running off of Windows 3.1 / 95. Yes, it saved them in this instance, but those operating systems are decades old. Incredible.

 

[Zardnok]

New Recovery Tool to help with CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints

Steps for how to access and use the recovery tool Microsoft created to generate a USB recovery drive to expedite the repair process from the CrowdStrike issue..

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Recovery tool for those still fighting this. It still requires hands-on and a bit-locker recovery key if you are encrypted. I have not used this script yet, but it is what we were recently shown as possible fix.

 

[NewOrleansFan]

Our machines don’t have bitlocker so it was easier to recover. Basically open command prompt in recovery and run del %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\crowdstrike\c-00000291*.sys. Interesting day though.

 

[Zardnok]

Our machines don’t have bitlocker so it was easier to recover. Basically open command prompt in recovery and run del %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\crowdstrike\c-00000291*.sys. Interesting day though.

We have a meeting tonight to go over the plan of attack first thing. I know I am leaving pre-sunrise to get the State Evac Shelter back online. They can at least maintain climate control through iPad, but that is my first priority tomorrow.

Bit-locker definitely makes things much much harder to recovery, but such is the nature of feeling "secure" in our modern world. We all feel more "secure" right??