Ask Noah Show

This week Noah takes you through what happened with the Crowdstrike incident, and how you could prevent a similar catastrophe with free and open source software. System76 announces a release date for Cosmic DE alpha. The Immich team is. -- During The Show -- Crowd Strike Outage Caused by defective update Affected all Windows computers 8.5 Million Windows machines rendered unusable Flights grounded Entire health care sectors shut down Kernel vs User mode WHQL Certification Crowd Strike had a WHQL Certification Anti-virus Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and/or anticipated threat detection Channel Files Microsoft could have provided an API EU requires Microsoft to provide the same access Windows No checks on the channel file Crowd Strike Falcon set as "boot-start driver" April 21st 2010 McAfee deleted svchost.exe George Kurtz CEO at both McAfee and Crowd Strike during the incidents Handing off risk/PCI We understand less and less Understand your critical paths and have a back up Hair shop "crash kit" Cold