In 2009, Microsoft blamed the European Union for the efficiency of Crowdstrike
According to The Wall Street Journal, a Microsoft spokesperson blamed the recent failure of Crowdstrike on a 2009 regulatory agreement between Microsoft and the European Union.
A spokesperson said Microsoft has agreed to allow third-party security developers to interact with Microsoft in a similar way, opening the way for critical bugs.
Patrick Wardle, CEO of DoubleYou, notes that monolithic ecosystems like Apple's macOS are more resistant to critical errors like this because of their walled-off architecture. In the year In 2020, Apple rolled out similar security checks for its operating system, protecting against third-party security breaches and code conflicts.
The failure that brought the world to its knees
Between July 18 and July 19, the world was hit by what has been called “the largest information technology blackout in history.” The IT service outage affected approximately 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide, disrupting operations at financial institutions, airports, emergency services and the media. Distribution networks.
At the center of the disaster was an update bug involving third-party security firm CrowdStrike. In the update, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the delay was not due to hacking or malicious exploits, and instructed users to contact Crowdstrike's support channels and update affected software through the security firm's portal. The CEO assured the public that the issue had been identified and fixed.
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Decentralized blockchain architecture solves this.
In the wake of the critical system crash, the crypto community has taken to social media to highlight how distributed computing systems protect against security vulnerabilities in centralized systems.
James Loup, co-founder of Bitcoin wallet service Casa, used the high-profile outage to illustrate why Bitcoin's core software doesn't auto-update, explaining that “auto-updates introduce systematic risk.”
Senator Cynthia Lammis, a longtime advocate of decentralized technologies, echoed comments made by blockchain software developers. The GOP lawmaker cited Bitcoin's resilience during the critical software meltdown as evidence of superior architecture.
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