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The causes of the global collapse in IT systems

Comment by cyber expert Smeon Nguyen

Jul 20, 2024 10:19 112

"The global IT collapse has not been overcome everywhere, but there is still an official solution from Crowdstrike and work has begun to analyze the problem. When a certain company's software is used by thousands of other companies, it requires a certain amount of trust in the software manufacturer, and in this case, releasing such an update, which was clearly not tested well enough on a small group of computers, led to this problem." He explained this on the air of "Wake up" cyber expert Smeon Nguyen.

He also explained what exactly caused the system crash. "Based on data at this time, it appears that the problematic configuration file 291, which monitors inter-process communication, tried to access a memory region that did not exist, which caused the error. If it was a regular program and not an antivirus program, the system would just crash and everything would be over. But in this case, since it's more specific software, it caused the error," he pointed out.