CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas personally accepted a “Most Epic Fail” award over the weekend on the annual Las Vegas Def Con hacking convention for the corporate’s software program replace that brought on a worldwide IT outage final month. Whereas accepting the award, he mentioned it was “tremendous vital to personal it while you do issues horribly fallacious, which we did on this case.”
The Pwnie Awards, given out in an annual ceremony at Def Con, have a good time “the achievements (and failures) of safety researchers and the safety group.” This yr’s classes included awards for cellular, desktop, and crypto bugs, one for “Lamest Vendor Response,” and an “Epic Achievement” award for researchers who found important vulnerabilities.
Throughout his speech, Sentonas mentioned the Pwnie is “positively not the award to be pleased with receiving” however added that he’ll carry it to CrowdStrike headquarters, the place “it’s gonna sit [in] pleasure of place as a result of I need each CrowdStriker who involves work to see it.” Final yr’s “Most Epic Fail” award went to the US Transportation Safety Administration after a hacker found the company’s “no-fly” checklist on an unprotected internet-connected server. (One thing related occurred in 2021 as nicely.)
CrowdStrike blamed a check software program bug for the defective replace and promised to replace its testing and error dealing with in addition to to begin staggering updates to forestall something related from occurring sooner or later.
