A senior US government cybersecurity official has slammed CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. for making “a serious mistake” by pushing a defective update that crashed the systems of businesses and governments globally.<\/p>\n
“It was a huge deal with serious impacts on critical infrastructure operations across the world,” said Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said in a LinkedIn post published on Saturday.<\/p>\n
“Any company that builds any kind of software should design, test and deliver it with a priority on dramatically driving down the number of flaws,” she said.<\/p>\n
The faulty software update affected 8.5 million devices globally that rely on the Microsoft Windows operating system.<\/p>\n
Microsoft Corp. revealed the scope of the worldwide IT outage for the first time in a blog post on Saturday, saying those affected represented fewer than 1% of all devices that use Windows.<\/p>\n
Easterly, whose agency has previously censured Microsoft for multiple cybersecurity failures and a series of embarrassing hacks, made clear in her post that Friday’s outage “was not a Microsoft issue.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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