WGA failure: 12,000 systems affected, caused by “human error”
Human error caused the recent WGA failure that falsely tagged 12,000 users as running pirated software. Microsoft disputes calling it an outage, however.
Microsoft WGA outage
Well, human error is tough to fend off in the world of IT Security, but is it really? The WGA failure that tagged 12,000 users as running pirated software was the result of a coding error, that we previously reported from ARS Technica. Now ARS Technica reports a “preproduction code” was sent to the production servers and BAM! problems abound.
How can we protect against such a simple mistake? By being defensive, that is how.
Protect Against Human Failure
The best offense is a good defense. In the IT world that is back-ups, disaster recovery centers, testing patches and updates, etc. Be proactive and let the “other guy” be your canary in the mine shaft!
Michael Rowles
Microsoft Cop
