I am not a computer expert nor am I a cybersecurity expert .But sometimes back while watching a NCIS episode on Prime I saw a murder happening by manipulation of the navigation system of a car.Is that scary or what?
This Crowdstrike-Microsoft puzzle/mess/crash is going to be a worrying/interesting thing to follow up.We may or may not ever know the truth.
The worst case scenario
The technical breakdown by a techie which is somewhat understandable.
CEO of Crowdstrike with an apology but not really an explanation!
The best part about this is we realized being connected to a bigger system had certain serious,sudden,complications which ideally should have bee foreseen or managed.
Imagine someone performing a lifesaving surgery maybe robotic surgery hooked onto a system like this and their computer shows the Blue screen!Its not just panic it’s going to be life threatening.
So also planes ,train,transport systems,defense, banks everything.
Apparently Russia wasn’t affected because Microsoft had left them as part of some sanction.
What is Crowdstrike?
It’s a cybersecurity company managing Microsoft’s Cybersecurity all over the world.It manages the entire information technology ecosystem of many companies deducting and preventing cybersecurity attacks,malwares,data breaches etc etc.
But how come their advanced system didn’t detect this outage soon enough?
What happened?
Apparently global outages involved emergency services,major banks ,media houses,airports,stock markets and only they know what else.
Who owns Crowdstrike?
It’s owned by Mr.George Kurtz who is a former McAfee employee
Important to remember
We don’t yet know what happened.
We don’t know what or who caused it.
We don’t know if it will happen in the future.
We don’t know whether we will ever go back to believing a fully connected global system is a good thing.
This is the reason monopoly of systems and services should be avoided and all systems should have backups of backups.In 2024 the problem is unimaginable and gives us an opportunity to put our thinking caps on.Interestingly both companies are based in USA.
This according to Livemint is possibly the largest such “outage” in history and coming so soon after the attack on “Trump” makes me imagine all sorts of conspiracy theories.
Interestingly Crowdstrike has been a part of a conspiracy theory previously and is no stranger to managing difficulties. We hope this “outage” is exactly what they say it is(they are not saying much though) and not something more worrying. Imagine if the same was done by a company based out of a country not-really-friends with USA?How can an update with such power to harm be let loose in the cyber world without multiple points of checking and cross checking and what about accountability?A
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