We understand the gravity of this situation and are deeply sorry for the inconvenience and disruption,
Its timing couldn’t have been worse on a Friday, and in particular, impacting on a Friday afternoon,
Across the board there’s been a wide impact, that’s cost a lot of businesses time, money, lost sales … it’s very hard to put a dollar figure on that,
They have become incredibly clever,
Please do something about all of these @Delta scam accounts,
If you have an automobile, and you take that automobile to the fuel station and you get fuel that is not quality fuel or corrupted fuel, your automobile is not going to work properly,
CrowdStrike lives at a layer within Microsoft Windows" to provide "the utmost of security. They live at a layer that truly does impact the entirety of the Windows infrastructure if they get it incorrect."
While the percentage was small,
It does emphasise that we live in a world of dependency and vulnerability and that disruption can and will happen and IT is at the core of our day to day operations, our businesses, our economies, everything about our lives. So this will happen and will continue to happen,
Our risk registers, our understanding of what can go wrong or what might go wrong, doesn't change because of an incident like this. The reality is that risk exists every day,
We currently estimate that CrowdStrike's update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than one percent of all Windows machines,
We recognise the disruption this problem has caused for businesses and in the daily routines of many individuals
What it looks like is, potentially, the vetting or the sandboxing they do when they look at code, maybe somehow this file was not included in that or slipped through,
Ideally, this would have been rolled out to a limited pool first,
It’s very common that security products update their signatures, like once a day... because they’re continually monitoring for new malware and because they want to make sure that their customers are protected from the latest threats,
Malicious websites and unofficial code are being released claiming to help entities recover,
U.K. airports and train operators have their IT systems back up and working as normal,
What we are seeing some reporting of is attempts to conduct phishing through the incident that just occurred,
I ask Australians to be really cautious over the next few days about attempts to use this for scamming or phishing,
We need to be aware that such software can be a common cause of failure for multiple systems at the same time,