2024-07-20 13:14:57
The CrowdStrike outage, which caused millions of Windows computers to experience issues, was caused by a faulty kernel level driver CrowdStrike installed. Any operating system, including macOS and Linux, will kernel panic if a faulty kernel level driver is installed. [Link][Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(2-0-1) Author
2024-07-20 13:27:41
macOS on Apple Silicon doesn’t allow loading third party kernel extensions on default security settings, making it resistant to this type of issue. [Link] CrowdStrike Falcon on macOS has since moved to using System Extensions which run in user space. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(1-0-0) Author