Subj : "Most epic fail" CrowdStrike President accepts award after globa To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Mon Aug 12 2024 18:45:05 "Most epic fail" CrowdStrike President accepts award after global IT outage Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 17:36:19 +0000 Description: The reputational rehabilitation of CrowdStrike begins in earnest. FULL STORY ====================================================================== The president of CrowdStrike has accepted the award for Most Epic Fail at the 2024 Pwnie Awards, hosted at this years DefCon hacking conference. Per TechCrunch , CrowdStrike was already in attendance at the cybersecurity gathering, manning one of the largest booths at the event, and dispatching free t-shirts and action figures to attendees/ Fans have already been leaping to the defence of the company that put millions of Windows machines out of action pending a fix to be manually applied in safe mode, calling them a class act after CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas acknowledged that the ward was definitely not [one] to be proud of receiving. CrowdStrike hanging by a thread Im fascinated by the idea by a company in line for a lawsuit leveraged by the airline Delta and another by its own shareholders can rehabilitate itself. Sentonas was, to be clear, quite apologetic for thrusting a great deal of the worlds digital infrastructure, from transport to retail, into chaos, admitting that [CrowdStrike] got this horribly wrong [...] and its super important to own it when you do things horribly wrong. Our goal is to protect people, he went on, and we got this wrong, and I want to make sure everybody understands [that] these things cant happen. This is a lovely sentiment from CrowdStrike, but its also one being expressed on camera in front of a sympathetic audience proud to host them. Actions speak louder than words, which is at least something that the company claims to understand. Last week, it was revealed that systems in place to truly make it so that these things (a broken update to CrowdStrikes Falcon software) cant happen failed to work as intended, allowing the things that cant happen to happen. More from TechRadar Pro 1Password urges Mac users to patch now to avoid having their data stolen Ransomware firms had some basic security flaws that meant victims never had to pay up Some of the most iconic AMD chips have a serious security flaw which the company says it probably won't patch now ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/pro/crowdstrike-accepts-award-for-most-epic-fail-aft er-global-it-outage --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .