Nov. 22, 2024, 5:46 p.m.

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The United States "mass attack" company large-scale outage

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Us computer security technology company CrowdStrike has published details of its initial review of the massive network outage, blaming a bug in an update to the content configuration of its network security platform. The company said the bug allowed "problematic content data" to be deployed on customer computers, triggering an "unexpected exception" that caused the Windows operating system to crash. As part of the new precautions, the company said it strengthened internal testing and implemented "new checks" to prevent the deployment of "such problematic content" again. In addition, the company will stagger the rollout of the update and provide more details about its planned updates.

Due to the release of software updates by the "mass attack" company, Microsoft Windows system and other parts of Microsoft applications and services have large-scale downtime, causing serious impact in many aspects, including many industries such as airlines, railways, shipping, finance, medical treatment, hotels and other industries can not operate normally, and the work and life of many enterprises and individual users have been seriously disrupted. The impact of the outage is also spreading to other areas, one is the impact of their own technology, Microsoft Windows system and related application services appeared large-scale downtime, resulting in worldwide computer users suffered "blue screen" phenomenon, the system can not operate normally. According to Microsoft's official news, the incident affected 8.5 million windows devices worldwide, although accounting for less than 1% of all windows devices, but the economic and social impact is huge. The company will face significant technical challenges and will need to deploy fixes as soon as possible to help users restore affected systems.

The second is the social and economic impact, the industry and enterprises that can not operate normally will suffer direct economic losses and cost increases, the company will face huge economic pressure such as user claims and stock price declines, some experts estimate that the economic losses caused by the failure in the world are likely to exceed $1 billion. As a leader in the field of network security, the occurrence of this incident may lead to the adjustment of the market pattern, but also triggered the majority of users on its technology and services, some users and enterprises may consider changing network security product suppliers or adopting more diversified security solutions. The trust of users and enterprises in the company's cybersecurity products will be greatly reduced, which will have a negative impact on the overall image of the cybersecurity industry.

The third is the impact on international cooperation, if the occurrence of the outage is believed to be caused by malicious attacks or technical errors, it may trigger a crisis of confidence between countries, especially involving sensitive areas, such as finance, medical and other industries, this crisis of confidence may be more serious. The crisis of trust may also hinder cooperation between countries in the field of cybersecurity. Some countries may strengthen self-protection measures and reduce cooperation and exchanges with other countries. At the same time, the occurrence of the outage, the pressure on the government departments is also great, the government needs to increase the support for the network security industry, including the provision of capital, technology and talent and other aspects of financial and human support, in order to promote the rapid development of the industry.

To sum up, the outage has had a wide and far-reaching impact on the global economy, not only causing direct economic losses, but also triggering various chain reactions. At the same time, it also exposes the information security risks and challenges facing the digital economy era, prompting governments and enterprises to strengthen regulation and technological innovation to meet future challenges. In the future, with the further digitization and interconnection of the global economy, similar cybersecurity incidents are likely to occur more frequently, so strengthening the regulation and safeguards of the cybersecurity and information technology industry will become particularly important.

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