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minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·edit-210 months ago“You pay us, and we will protect you” Don’t they usually smash a few Windows before they say this sentence?
minus-squaremesa@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoLol didntbyhey have a world wide outage that started from a security backdoor?
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoHey now. Solarwinds is marketed as a monitoring app. The security backdoor thing was entirely unintentional.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoI think you’re confusing the Solarwinds and Crowdstrike things.
minus-squaremesa@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoThat’s right I was thinking of cloud strike! Fun fact, that event convinced management at work to start moving from Windows server to Linux boxes. Since the only services that were not down for a significant amount of time was the Linux services. Fun times.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI don’t think I’ve ever heard of a global outage of Windows, no.
minus-square0oWow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoCheck Bleeping Computer. They’ve been smashing many Windows.
“You pay us, and we will protect you”
Don’t they usually smash a few Windows before they say this sentence?
Lol didntbyhey have a world wide outage that started from a security backdoor?
Hey now. Solarwinds is marketed as a monitoring app. The security backdoor thing was entirely unintentional.
I think you’re confusing the Solarwinds and Crowdstrike things.
That’s right I was thinking of cloud strike!
Fun fact, that event convinced management at work to start moving from Windows server to Linux boxes. Since the only services that were not down for a significant amount of time was the Linux services. Fun times.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a global outage of Windows, no.
Check Bleeping Computer. They’ve been smashing many Windows.