The head of Crowdstrike, the business in charge of an update that took countless individuals offline, stated Friday the massive worldwide outage was not a cyberattack neither a safety event.
Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz uploaded on X “Crowdstirke is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts. This is not a security incident or a cyberattack. The issue has been identified, isolate and a fix has been deployed.”
The update affected Microsoft’s 365 applications and Azure solution. It took significant airline companies, media organzations and also law enforcement agency offline worldwide very early Thursday night.
Here’s exactly how one cybersecurity professional described it to us today:
“If there is a mistake happening here, it’s cascaded, because the nature of the cloud is you don’t do it computer by computer, you deploy it to all of the computers at the same time. If this software update, there is a problem and it’s conflicting, this is what’s going to happen.”
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