Cybersecurity

Setting Up Microsoft Defender for Endpoint - A First Timer's Guide

15 October 2024·352 words·2 mins

Technology Microsoft Cybersecurity Defender

Defender for Endpoint is a wonderful cybersecurity tool that works in Macs and PCs and in PCs works with Windows Defender, other Defender flavors that Microsoft produces etc. It has the following benefits:

CrowdStrike Outage July 2024 - Technical Summary of What Happened

24 July 2024·279 words·2 mins

Technology Crowdstrike Outage Kernel-Mode-Drivers Bsod Windows Cybersecurity

An update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor on 19 July 2024 caused about 8.5 million Windows machines (estimated) to hang and show BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). A fix was pushed out later that day but the machines that went down had to be manually fixed (as of this writing). Here’s a technical summary of what happened based on Dave Plummer’s video below:

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