Call me crazy, but...
Do you think this outage affecting Microsoft may have been planned? The fact that it's not just an outrage, but a sudden global outage, just has me wondering 🤔.
ineedadrink · 51-55, M
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@ineedadrink +1. That's why I can never buy into conspiracies. It would require the complete competence of countless people, and that goes against human nature.
ineedadrink · 51-55, M
@trollslayer That is the absolute truth.
Northwest · M
The good news, is that this was not a hack.
CrowdStrike, a company that provides what's called "endpoint security", with a 20% share of the worldwide market, pushed a faulty software update.
As the name implies, endpoint security, means that the software agent, sits on your device (laptop, phone, etc). It's invisible, and was installed on your system, by your corporate IT department.
The endpoint, communicates with the master servers, that manage the installation of the agents on the clients (your laptop, etc).
Due to the snowball effect, it will take a few hours (give or take) for the client on your own system to update with a fix to the problem.
This is only on Windows.
CrowdStrike, a company that provides what's called "endpoint security", with a 20% share of the worldwide market, pushed a faulty software update.
As the name implies, endpoint security, means that the software agent, sits on your device (laptop, phone, etc). It's invisible, and was installed on your system, by your corporate IT department.
The endpoint, communicates with the master servers, that manage the installation of the agents on the clients (your laptop, etc).
Due to the snowball effect, it will take a few hours (give or take) for the client on your own system to update with a fix to the problem.
This is only on Windows.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@trollslayer that's understandable for private devices. With fixing security weaknesses on critical systems, it's probably not the best idea.
trollslayer · 46-50, M
@NerdyPotato true
MayorOfCrushtown · M
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
If I was gunna do a test run I’d do it on a Friday morning .With all the BS talk of orange and JoeB dominating the news cycle , I know nobody would be talking about my test run by Monday .
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M
No.Good reason to not go with CBDC.
FeetAreFantastic · 41-45, M
No it was a software bug. It happens. Its very unfortunate, but I am a software tester myself and know full well that even a minor bug can have major consequences. Also Microsoft had nothing to do with it as it was an anti virus program by another company that contained the bug.
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