1 reactions
Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 saved a few companies from the Crowdstrike crash
Although the Crowdstrike incident, which crippled around 8.5 million Windows machines worldwide, caused enormous disruptions in almost every industry and country, some companies and areas proved to be completely immune to its effects. Such was the case, for example. the American Southwest Airlines, where the cyber security company's faulty update did not cause any disruption, but also Russia, where an incident that caused serious panic in the rest of the world went almost unnoticed.
In the case of Southwest Airlines, there may have been a surprising reason for the immunity: the fact that the company uses age-old software, e.g. He uses Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 on many of his systems, on which Crowdstrike's huge blunder could not cause any confusion in this regard. Although the use of such outdated solutions typically has only disadvantages, and the company was repeatedly criticized for this in the past, but now it turned out to be beneficial, completely by accident, that most of the critical systems worked on a machine that simply could not install the problematic Falcon Sensor software - because it was already does not support versions of Windows released in the last millennium.
The head of the German federal state of Saarland also proudly announced that the Crowdstrike bug caused almost no problems for them. According to Prime Minister Anke Rehlinger, the reason for this was that "the office uses outdated Microsoft products on PCs that have not received updates for a long time".
Russia was also not affected by the Crowdstrike incident, which is also due to the fact that the company's software did not work for most of the companies there. Here, however, it was not necessarily the age-old Windows that almost protected the machines from the error, but the fact that since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine two years ago, the country has been subject to sanctions, and in this context, most American and Western companies cannot export security-related software and solutions. Instead, Russia uses Kaspersky's software, which was recently banned from the United States. So if the latter company had botched updating its anti-virus software as much as Crowdstrike did, the Americans could now be happy that they got away with the incident, while the Russian economy would have been on the brink of collapse for days.
Source: https://pcforum.hu/hirek/27993/crowdstrike-hiba-immunis-windows-95-windows-31-southwest-airlines
Although the Crowdstrike incident, which crippled around 8.5 million Windows machines worldwide, caused enormous disruptions in almost every industry and country, some companies and areas proved to be completely immune to its effects. Such was the case, for example. the American Southwest Airlines, where the cyber security company's faulty update did not cause any disruption, but also Russia, where an incident that caused serious panic in the rest of the world went almost unnoticed.
In the case of Southwest Airlines, there may have been a surprising reason for the immunity: the fact that the company uses age-old software, e.g. He uses Windows 95 and Windows 3.1 on many of his systems, on which Crowdstrike's huge blunder could not cause any confusion in this regard. Although the use of such outdated solutions typically has only disadvantages, and the company was repeatedly criticized for this in the past, but now it turned out to be beneficial, completely by accident, that most of the critical systems worked on a machine that simply could not install the problematic Falcon Sensor software - because it was already does not support versions of Windows released in the last millennium.
The head of the German federal state of Saarland also proudly announced that the Crowdstrike bug caused almost no problems for them. According to Prime Minister Anke Rehlinger, the reason for this was that "the office uses outdated Microsoft products on PCs that have not received updates for a long time".
Russia was also not affected by the Crowdstrike incident, which is also due to the fact that the company's software did not work for most of the companies there. Here, however, it was not necessarily the age-old Windows that almost protected the machines from the error, but the fact that since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine two years ago, the country has been subject to sanctions, and in this context, most American and Western companies cannot export security-related software and solutions. Instead, Russia uses Kaspersky's software, which was recently banned from the United States. So if the latter company had botched updating its anti-virus software as much as Crowdstrike did, the Americans could now be happy that they got away with the incident, while the Russian economy would have been on the brink of collapse for days.
Source: https://pcforum.hu/hirek/27993/crowdstrike-hiba-immunis-windows-95-windows-31-southwest-airlines
| 25,000 mlx | |
| 30 | |
| 1 |