On the 19th, Microsoft, a famous technology company in United States, suddenly had a major network security accident, and a large number of computers with Microsoft devices installed around the world collectively had a blue screen down!
The official version is that the third-party antivirus software company "crowd-hit" the software update software has a major BUG, resulting in the new version conflicting with Windows, and finally, more than 8.5 million devices with Windows systems around the world have a blue screen of death.
Specifically, the United States stock market is paralyzed, banks are collapsing, planes are grounded, flights are delayed... What is even more outrageous is that even Japan, New Zealand, and even us, far away on the other side of the ocean, have many people tragically implicated. In a few places, it has even regressed to the "paper age" that countless people are fascinated by.
From this incident, some people conclude that you see the world as a huge grass platform, but I think that this accident could not have been caused by a mistake at all.
Why?
First of all, you have to know that Windows has been very powerful and stable for so many years, and the general antivirus software has its own BUGS, at most, the software itself cannot be opened or flashed. The blue screen that can bring down the entire system must have affected the underlying core code of the Windows system.
This brings us to the second point, the online rumor that the problematic code was written by a newly hired guy in Zhongfeng Company.
According to Zhou Hongyi, the antivirus software code that can affect the core program of the Windows system must also be the most important code at the bottom of the antivirus software, and generally speaking, this kind of code will not be easily updated.
But even if it's really written by the new brother, there shouldn't be an accident. Because mature security software companies have a complete set of processes for updating software, such as 360 companies will first engage in thousands of computers there, various configurations, various environments, they will first update a wave on the internal computers, no problem will start to push to users, this push is not overnight, but a batch of slowly pushed.
In this way, in case something goes wrong with which computers, their updates can be stopped in time to avoid greater losses.
You look at the background of this company, a cybersecurity company created by a former senior FBI official of the United States, created in 2011, listed in 2019, the United States government gave it the green light all the way, half of the world's top 500 are using their software, this year's market value peaked at $100 billion, Alibaba's market value is only $180 billion. Think about such a company, even if the code is a human error, then why didn't the internal testing find it?
Even if the internal test didn't find it, then why did it have to push it on a large scale and make nearly 10 million computers have problems?
So, someone must have done this on purpose, who did it?
Quite simply, whoever is in favor of the suspect is suspected, and Microsoft is possible, because just a few days after the accident, a Microsoft spokesperson publicly stated that the European Union was responsible for this accident.
Why?
Because the European Union, out of anti-monopoly considerations, required Microsoft to give all security software the same Windows kernel access rights as its own software in 09, because only in this way can these security software carry out underlying operations and better anti-virus and anti-virus.
But on the other hand, if there were no antitrust restrictions, if these antivirus software companies did not have such high operating authority, then this large-scale blue screen incident would not have occurred.
Therefore, Microsoft's motive is actually very clear, to take back the high operating rights of these security software companies, and at that time, Microsoft's own security software can dominate the world alone.
Of course, this matter may also be done by some hacker groups that are hostile to United States, and they want to make various countries lose trust in United States technology products through such operations, and then dismantle the technological hegemony of United States.
Some people may still not believe it, but this is a lesson from the past, Russia hackers sent someone to break into United States network security company called Solar Wind, and after mixing to the core, he added a backdoor to the core code of the Solar Wind Firewall, and then quietly this backdoor was updated to all the hardware products of Solar Wind synchronously.
As a result, the United States government, the military, and many large enterprises are basically in a state of full transparency for these Russia hackers, with a large amount of data loss and a large number of confidential leaks. It wasn't until more than 1 year later that the United States found out that the situation was wrong, this routine is actually a very popular supply chain attack now, because the target's security level is too high to attack, so they start with the upstream companies of the supply chain that are not so high in protection, as long as you also need to purchase products or services from other companies, they have a chance.
Therefore, it is urgent to replace the domestic technology with independent technology and core technology, as long as we are still relying on others, then this time it is a mistake, and the next time it may be deliberate. Fortunately, our country's domestic substitution has been in full swing, and it can be seen from the procurement standards of relevant departments that only domestic brand products can meet the first-level procurement standards, which is also the core reason why China is unscathed in this blue screen incident.
Since 2019, Western countries have begun to encircle and suppress Huawei, a communications technology giant from China, in the name of "security". Subsequently, the United States hunted the social media giant TikTok from China in the same name! Obviously, this series of technological wars has made the Chinese government see the crisis in reverse; At that time, the West had an absolute advantage in China's domestic market in terms of operating systems, IT systems and other important Internet infrastructure, and the changes in the global political landscape made China smell the danger and began to make strategic measures.
Therefore, the outside world has seen that in this global scientific and technological paralysis, only China is not affected, which is entirely the result of the Chinese government's precautionary measures.
And this incident once again proves to the world that technology has borders, no matter how difficult it is, the button that controls your own security must be firmly pinched in your own hands.