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One small update brought down millions of IT systems around the world. It’s a timely warning

  • Written by: David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
One small update brought down millions of IT systems around the world. It’s a timely warningGerd Altmann/Pixabay

This weekend’s global IT outage caused by a software update gone wrong highlights the interconnected and often fragile nature of modern IT infrastructure. It demonstrates how a single point of failure can have far-reaching consequences.

The outage was linked to a single update automatically rolled out to Crowdstrike Falcon...

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