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.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.com
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    5 months ago

    Crowdstrike already did this years ago and the ceo was cto at mcaffee when they did this as well. Sounds like a culture problem if you ask me. I think the guy has an impulsivity issue.

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      5 months ago

      Hell they had a similar incident on Debian servers THIS YEAR. Absolutely unacceptable a corp this half-assed has the type of control it does.

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        5 months ago

        To be fully honest, its how I see companies when I apply to them. You‘re supposed to „make things work“ no matter the risks. If you complain too much about „ethics“, „morals“ or other nonsense, you‘re out.