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The 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
A tiny 42KB file took down 8.5 million machines.
“That can be very problematic, because when an update comes along that isn’t formatted in the correct way or has some malformations in it, the driver can ingest that and blindly trust that data,” Patrick Wardle, CEO of DoubleYou and founder of the Objective-See Foundation, tells The Verge. If CrowdStrike had properly tested its content updates with a small group of users, then Friday would have been a wake-up call to fix an underlying driver problem rather than a tech disaster that spanned the globe. “Microsoft is free to decide on its business model and to adapt its security infrastructure to respond to threats provided this is done in line with EU competition law,” European Commission spokesperson Lea Zuber says in a statement to The Verge.
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