For anyone not in the know: this is actually a big deal. Huge. Not exaggerating.
911 systems across multiple states, airports across the world have to ground flights, banks, financial firms cannot trade. Any Windows system with this app installed is basically screwed. And the world runs on Windows. The military runs in Windows.
Crowdstrike (coincidentally of 2016 election game, and Ukraine controversy ),is an application that provides a specific type of security for Windows systems.
Think of a deadbolt. Only a few companies make a special deadbolt, majority of companies need this deadbolt, so they'll use one of these few companies. One of the big "deadbolt" companies is Crowdstrike.
Crowdstrike pushed an update/fix/patch to all their deadbolts across the world, and it broke. But to fix it, you need to get into your house/building, but you can't, because the deadbolt is broke. And even if you could, some companies have tens of thousands of deadbolts that need fixed.
They have suites of endpoint protection software, Threat detection, prevention, auditing, etc...Alot of government agencies utilize their products. It sounds like a supply chain attack, much like the solarwinds hack. Their products run on millions of windows os'es.
For anyone not in the know: this is actually a big deal. Huge. Not exaggerating.
911 systems across multiple states, airports across the world have to ground flights, banks, financial firms cannot trade. Any Windows system with this app installed is basically screwed. And the world runs on Windows. The military runs in Windows.
This is an extremely big deal.
Eli5 what do they have to do with windows? What app are you talking about.
Crowdstrike (coincidentally of 2016 election game, and Ukraine controversy ),is an application that provides a specific type of security for Windows systems.
Think of a deadbolt. Only a few companies make a special deadbolt, majority of companies need this deadbolt, so they'll use one of these few companies. One of the big "deadbolt" companies is Crowdstrike.
Crowdstrike pushed an update/fix/patch to all their deadbolts across the world, and it broke. But to fix it, you need to get into your house/building, but you can't, because the deadbolt is broke. And even if you could, some companies have tens of thousands of deadbolts that need fixed.
They have suites of endpoint protection software, Threat detection, prevention, auditing, etc...Alot of government agencies utilize their products. It sounds like a supply chain attack, much like the solarwinds hack. Their products run on millions of windows os'es.