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German Cyber Agency Wants Changes in Microsoft, CrowdStrike Products After Tech Outage


An anonymous reader shares a report: Since last month's blue-screen deluge, CrowdStrike has published analyses of what went wrong and said it hired third-party security companies to review its product. Now, Germany's powerful cybersecurity agency is seizing the moment and hoping to rattle tech and c...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Since last month's blue-screen deluge, CrowdStrike has published analyses of what went wrong and said it hired third-party security companies to review its product. Now, Germany's powerful cybersecurity agency is seizing the moment and hoping to rattle tech and cyber companies into altering their products to head off another mega-meltdown. Leveraging the dread that filled Silicon Valley following the July outage, the BSI is planning to organize a conference this year gathering major tech firms, where it hopes they will commit to restricting access to the kernel, a change Caspers says is crucial to stopping similar failures.

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