Crowdstrike CEO says single content update caused massive outage

The head of Crowdstrike, the company responsible for an update that took millions of people offline, said Friday the massive global outage was not a cyberattack nor a security incident. Kris Sanchez reports.

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[mannyechaluce]

Who needs hackers to mess you up, you have your own security protection just shutting you down :D

[NOHOLOCO]

Windows??
I’m using Windows XP!
Can the hackers hack my dial-up when I automatically connect with AOL?!

[whodywei]

He meant they never did QA test before release.

[ydne]

When Hurricane Beryl hit Texas as a category one, a million little problems arose. I guess that some Emergency Routing around the infrastructure issues might not have been included in the offending update.

[NelALucas]

no comp no tv no mobile and you are free strong and secured as earth and stone 😬

[ToGoMania]

I disagree. This is a security incident since multiple organizations had limited access to SaaS applications and other services.

I have committed unintentional self-imposed Denials of Service myself. I believe this is a valuable opportunity to gain better change management.

[mannyechaluce]

Good thing we don't have a lot of Autonomous vehicles on the road yet :D that would be a Traffic for the ages :D

[CPngN]

Just like with other full flooded antivirus sweets, their solutions actually make you far more vulnerable to attacks by being in place and opening holes that weren't there before just so they can poke around themselves. ..

[forrestgumpv]

SKYNET is CROWDSTRIKE !! SKYNET and the MACHINES are coming !!!!
SKYNET is CROWDSTRIKE !! SKYNET and the MACHINES are coming !!!!

[ariellife]

Does not make any sense. Something fishy .

Multiple countries, multiple different industries, multiple different companies.

How do they go down all together ?

[Muricans]

😂😂😂Gotta De Risk that Murican Tech … they gonna use it to wage economic war on us 😂😂😂

[jaym]

Woohoo! All my criminal records & debt got erased. ❤CrowdStrike & Microsoft

[TheRHIM]

Microsoft is the culprit here. They’re forcing Crowdstrike to take the blame.

[lwzfog]

saFe & eFfEcTiVE & fULLy tE$TeD is all the rage.
mistakes were made, lessons learned, we’re very sorry, mea culpa.