CrowdStrike has been doing updates this way 'for many years' what went wrong

With a potentially lengthy recovery ahead, the defective CrowdStrike update that led to an unprecedented worldwide Microsoft outage will ultimately raise questions about the automatic update process for cybersecurity tools

Kyle Alspach
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CrowdStrike has been doing updates this way 'for many years' what went wrong

It's actually no exaggeration to say, as John Hammond did Friday, that the IT outage caused by a defective CrowdStrike software update has been "earth-shattering." If ever a cyber incident has b...

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