The most talked about name of the past week CrowdStrikesent $10 gift cards to select employees and partners as an apology.
Last week, thousands of companies in Turkey and many other countries were unable to operate because of 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. It was a step that made many people who brought this situation to the agenda now 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.
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CrowdStrike, which recently made a statement on this issue, blamed the faulty test software for what happened. Reportedly due to a bug 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.
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Before this, a Microsoft development had made a splash. As we learned recently, the software giant had signed a European Union agreement in 2009. must give full kernel access to third-party developers. It is said that the CrowdStrike incident was able to create such a big problem through full kernel access to Windows, It is reminded that Apple does not give full kernel access to third-party developers. “How does such a situation happen?” Microsoft defended itself against criticisms and questions regarding the EU agreement, The 15-year agreement ties his hands and that this could leave Windows-based enterprise systems vulnerable to similar disasters. says.