• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Falcon Sensor is one of the most popular security products in Windows servers. Practically every large company purchases Crowdstrike services to protect their servers.

    People who aren’t affected:

    • Linux and Mac servers
    • Private individuals and smaller businesess who have Windows machines that don’t buy CrowdStrike services.
    • Companies that bothered to create proper test environments for their production servers.

    People who are affected:

    Companies that use Windows machines, buy Falcon Sensor from Crowdstrike, and are too stupid/cheap to have proper update policies.

    In terms of numbers, we don’t know how many people are affected or how much it will cost. A lot. Globally. Flights were grounded, surgeries rescheduled, bank transfers and payments interrupted, and millions of employees couldn’t turn on their computers this morning.