CrowdStrike: What the 2024 outage reveals about security
Briefly

The update on 19 July 2024 was designed to enhance system security, but instead it crippled over 8.5 million Windows computers requiring user intervention to recover—highlighting vulnerabilities even in trusted software.
The situation underscores not only the technical challenges in software updates but also the far-reaching impacts such outages can have on critical sectors such as healthcare and media across multiple countries.
Read at Privacy International
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