The CEO made a statement to the effect of “It’s not an attack, it’s just me and my company being shockingly incompetent.” He didn’t use exactly those words but that was the gist.
Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
have they ruled out any possibility of a man in the middle attack by a foreign actor?
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
planish@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Foreign to who?
kyle@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“Foreign” in this context just means “not Crowdstrike”, not like a foreign government.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
In the middle of every path of all the machines that got the update?
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or it being an intentional proof of concept
simplejack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
crowdstrike.com/…/statement-on-falcon-content-upd…
I guess they could be lying, but if they were lying, I don’t know if their argument of “we’re incompetent” is instilling more trust in them.
xavier666@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“We are confident that only our engineers can fuck up so much, instead of our competitors”