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
Gerd Altmann/PixabayThis 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...