Microsoft blames Crowdstrike meltdown on 2009 European Union deal
The security incident affected 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide as commercial operations were hit with the “blue screen of death.”
According to The Wall Street Journal, a Microsoft spokesperson blamed the recent Crowdstrike failure on a 2009 regulatory deal between Microsoft and the European Union.
The spokesperson claimed Microsoft agreed to give external security developers the same level of access to interact with the software as Microsoft, paving the way for critical bugs.
Patrick Wardle, the CEO of DoubleYou, explained that monolithic ecosystems like Apple’s MacOS are more resistant to such critical errors because of their walled-off architecture. In 2020, Apple revoked similar security clearances for its operating system, insulating it from third-party security failures and coding conflicts.
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Author: Vince Quill
