With the announcement of CrowdStrike reports the cause of computer failures around the world, wreaking havoc on airports, stock markets, banks, and thousands of businesses and organizations across many industries.
According to the company there was a malfunction in its control system Falcon Platform which is the one that protects the computers where it is installed against cyber attacks, against malware infiltration from hackers.
More specifically, CrowdStrike reports that there was an issue with the content control subsystem and it was unable to control a set of instructions (Template Type) that instructs the software both on how to search for threats and how to respond if it detects a threat. Template Types have an internal control system, the Template Instance, which, as seen in this case, was unable to detect problematic content data that was present in the instruction set.
CrowdStrike did not say what the content data was or why it was problematic. The company said it had added a “new control” to its quality assurance process in an effort to prevent a repeat of the incident. Even the cause of the problem was indeed this, and any recovery from the largest digital crash to date must be the subject of serious analysis by all parties involved to develop the necessary safeguards so that such a thing does not happen again as modern human civilization becomes more interconnected every day through computers and the Internet.
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