This DAP highlights – ODNI report – Uyghur Genocide and Concentrated Reeducation Camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China / Gate 15’s Weekly Security Sprint EP 89 - Post election texts, terror arrests and threats, and compromised emails / USCIRF hearing – Addressing Entities of Particular Concern: Non-State Actors and Egregious Violations of Religious Freedom. DAP also has More Faith-Based Stories and Select All-Hazard Stories. These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 19 July 2024
Faith-Based Security Headlines
These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline
A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is responsible for the global outage. Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide. A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike is knocking affected PCs and servers offline, forcing them into a recovery boot loop so machines can’t start properly. CrowdStrike is widely used by many businesses worldwide for managing the security of Windows PCs and servers. Australian banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters first raised the alarm as thousands of machines started to go offline.
Statement from CrowdStrike: Statement on Falcon Content Update for Windows Hosts
CrowdStrike States:
“CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted. This is not a security incident or cyberattack.
The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. We refer customers to the support portal for the latest updates and will continue to provide complete and continuous updates on our website.
We further recommend organizations ensure they’re communicating with CrowdStrike representatives through official channels.
Our team is fully mobilized to ensure the security and stability of CrowdStrike customers.”
CrowdStrike also provides:
- Summary
- Details
- Current Action
- Workaround Steps for individual hosts
- Workaround Steps for public cloud or similar environment including virtual
- AWS-specific documentation
- Azure environments
- Bitlocker recovery-related KBs
Related Articles:
- Warning IT problems could take days to fix
- Microsoft says cause of outage at 365 apps and services fixed
- CrowdStrike CEO apologizes for tech outage, says systems should be recovering
- Microsoft outage live: Huge hospital group is forced to cancel surgeries as thousands of flights are grounded and New York Subway control room loses track of its own trains
- Counting the Costs of a Global IT Outage
- What is CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind a global tech outage?
Analyst Comments:
The widespread disruption caused by the defect in a single content update for Windows hosts shows the world’s dependence on IT systems. Not only can bad actors cause serious problems, but non-malicious/accidental errors can significantly disrupt a Faith-Based Organization’s (FBO) operations. In addition to maintaining basic cyber hygiene and backing up data, FBOs should consider having backup communication methods for times when email and phone service may not be available. Consider hard copies of contact information, Emergency Action Plans, and other vital information since electronic versions may not be available.
As always, Faith-Based ISAO’s website provides resources in the Resource Library, including information on Protecting Digital Assets.
Updates on Attempted Assassination of Former President Donald Trump
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Select All-Hazards Stories
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