So as we all know on the news, the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike Y2K’d it’s own end customers with a shoddy non-tested update.
But how does this happen? Aren’t there programming teams and check their code or pass it to a quality assurance staff to see if it bricked their own machines?
8.5 Million machines too, does that effect home users too or is it only for windows machines that have this endpoint agent installed?
Lastly, why would large firms and government institutions such as railway networks and hospitals put all their eggs in one basket? Surely chucking everything into “The Cloud (Literally just another man’s tinbox)” would be disastrous?
TLDR - Confused how this titanic tits up could happen and that 8.5 Million windows machines (POS, Desktops and servers) just packed up.
My thought is hackers hacked and pushed a crash, CEO has to claim it was an untested update to save face.
That would be nice, but I suspect it is a lot simpler. Low or no QC pushed a fuct update out.
I did too but looks like comment section believes this was a genuine fuck up… But yeah prolly management under staffing and underpaying somebody.
Scary to think one software is a failure point of this magnitude…if any foreign state hackers didn’t already know the world’s failure point, they certainly do now
That’s my thinking also, the execs at these companies don’t really care. They are there to make the money. If they fuck up, they just lose their job likely still get paid out too. So for them there is every incentive to take risks.