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Who needs ransomware when a faulty software update can shut down critical infrastructure?
This should be the last security wake-up calls for organizations.
Like at many airports worldwide, there were long lines at Changi last Friday as several airlines had to resort to manual check-ins following the colossal IT outage caused by CrowdStrike's faulty software update. Companies worldwide were met with a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), with those in this part of the world among the first to experience it Friday morning -- presumably because CrowdStrike thought it fitting to push out the global update after business hours on the other side of the globe. In a note on the CrowdStrike outage, Forrester's principal analyst Allie Mellen wrote: "Reliability of the tools and services cybersecurity teams use is critical in the face of cyberattacks.
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