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		franczesko on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo... I just wanted to mention that Microsoft has 3 tiers of Windows beta releases before changes are pushed to production. I can't comprehend how this wasn't noticed before.

bloopernova on July 19, 2024 [–]

It didn't come from Microsoft or Windows Update. It was pushed by Crowdstrike to their corporate security kernel extension.

franczesko on July 19, 2024 | [–]

3rd party got unsupervised access to kernel? I'd say it's even worse then

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