While Microsoft continues to get more than 8 billion Windows devices online the company has made an interesting statement this week. Microsoft says that CrowdStrike-like outages can happen in the future and it won’t be able to prevent them occurring again. The company even has a reason for this bold and scary claim, as it blames the European Commission for making a rule that allows third-party vendors to get full kernel access to the OS.
The company was quoted in a WSJ report talking about this legal mandate which means companies like CrowdStrike will have the access to its software at the same level as Microsoft engineers have. It seems like an easy way out for Microsoft from a major IT debacle that had the entire world on standstill for a whole day and more.
Cybersecurity experts have highlighted their concerns after this mega outage that brought the airlines, healthcare and businesses to their knees. CrowdStrike has repeatedly said that this was not a security incident or a cyberattack which puts further onus on the company to fix the mess. And since most businesses still rely on Windows machines for their operations, the cost of not looking at other avenues will cost them dear.
The outage has not affected Apple users primarily because they don’t offer such access to third-party vendors so it is up to Microsoft to run a tight ship at its end to prevent these attacks. In fact, the update mishap has created one more issue for billions of PC users who have been warned about hackers targeting the affected systems.
CrowdStrike has released a detailed list of websites that could be using its name to contact the affected PC users and its customers over the next few days. These hackers will claim to help you fix the BSOD issue of your Windows PC and offer other solutions needed to get your system running again.
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