A really interesting and funny development has come to the fore. CrowdStrike president received the ‘Most Epic Fail’ award at Def Con took.
Recently, thousands of companies in Turkey and many other countries have become inoperable because there was a serious problem with Windows operating system PCs. Many computers blue screen (Blue Screen of Death / BSOD) gave, Some computers went into a reboot loop. In fact, behind the situation CrowdStrike There was an update made to the security software that broke Windows. Microsoft made a statement regarding the process, CrowdStrike said the incident affected 8.5 million Windows devices. This could have been much bigger, because the problem affected less than one percent of all computers running Windows. What brought the company to the agenda now was the post below. CrowdStrike President Michael Sentonas said at the Def Con conference in Las Vegas:Most Epic Fail” award took. Sentonas receiving the award, “When you do something terribly wrong, it’s very important to own up to it.” he said.
CrowdStrike accepts the @PwnieAwards for “most epic fail” at @defcon.Class act. pic.twitter.com/e7IgYosHAE
— Dominic White 👾 (@singe) August 10, 2024
It was a step that made many people who brought this situation to the agenda last time laugh.The company, which wanted to apologize for what happened, sent $10 gift cards to certain employees and partners via Uber Eats to apologize. A company spokesperson said, “We sent this gift to our teammates and partners who helped customers with the problem they experienced.” He said. These gift cards could not be used at first, as reported. Because Uber froze the cards on suspicion of fraud due to high usage rates.
CrowdStrike, who made a statement on this issue, blamed the faulty test software for what happened. According to the report, due to the fault in the test software, Content update sent to millions of machines not properly validatedDue to an error in the content verification system. one of the two updates passed verification despite containing problematic data The company said it has taken great security measures to prevent this from happening again.