from Revolver News:
It is a testament to how utterly extraordinary the past couple weeks have been that the Microsoft-CrowdStrike computer catastrophe was not even the second most important story in the news cycle. On Friday, July 19th, the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike implemented a botched update that crashed Microsoft devices on which it was installed, ultimately inflicting the dreaded “blue screen of death” on over 8.5 million devices worldwide. Banks, businesses, hospitals, and airlines were hit particularly hard, and to this day, some of these institutions are having difficulty restoring functionality to their systems.
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Video compilations such as the one below offer arresting images to give the reader a sense of just how globally catastrophic the Microsoft-CrowdStrike crash really was. It was a bit like what people imagined the Y2K scare would have been in the year 2000.
What kind of sense can we make of this? And who is at fault? Given that the botched update in question was implemented by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, a great deal of responsibility would seem to lie there. Readers might be familiar with Russiagate-stained CrowdStrike, as it was the cybersecurity firm the DNC hired to investigate the alleged “hack” of its servers leading to the exposure of highly incriminating and embarrassing emails during the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The recent CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage raises additional troubling questions in light of this history, which others have explored.
For now, we would like to turn the spotlight on Microsoft. As a simple matter of security, Microsoft holds a fair share of the blame for Friday’s catastrophe. Microsoft enables Crowdstrike’s software to exist within the most sensitive layer of its devices, and one would think a tech behemoth such as Microsoft would have stop-gaps and redundancies in place to prevent such global outages from occurring in their systems. A more troubling and important aspect the Crowd-Strike-Microsoft collapse draws attention to, however, is the utter ubiquitousness of Microsoft’s systems globally. A 2021 study revealed that Microsoft’s systems have achieved a whopping 85 percent of market share in public sector software, with an especially acute concentration in the Pentagon.
Elon Musk bemoaned the effect of the Microsoft-Crowdstrike crash on the global automotive supply chain and took to X to express his displeasure with Microsoft in characteristically suggestive and memetic fashion.
