CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks, experts say

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SAN FRANCISCO : Security experts said CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients' computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed.

"Ideally, this would have been rolled out to a limited pool first," said John Hammond, principal security researcher at Huntress Labs.

It's unclear how that faulty code got into the update and why it wasn't detected before being released to customers.

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Published On: 2024-07-20 @ 09:05:41 (3 hours ago)

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