How a CrowdStrike update knocked out systems globally
An update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike (CRWD) is causing chaos worldwide as airlines, hospital systems, businesses, and banks face massive disruptions from the outage. Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley joins Market Domination to discuss the fallout and how affected companies are handling the outage. The outage occurred when CrowdStrike sent out an update for its software that impacted Microsoft (MSFT) systems that are used by everything from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Howley explains, "When an update goes out, it points to different flaws in systems that attackers also learn about. An update goes out, the information is published about it. Attackers aren't dumb, and so they know what the update's fixing. If companies don't apply those updates and fix those flaws, then attackers can go after them. So, the updates were applied across the board to CrowdStrike customers and that's why we saw this huge cascade of failures." He adds that CrowdStrike is working on deploying a patch, but it may take longer for companies to get the fixes. In the meantime, some companies are manually fixing issues where they can in order to get operations back on track. However, Howley notes, "It's not something that they can just automate. And so it's not something that's just going to go away at the drop of a hat. This is something that's going to take a while to truly remediate." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Market Domination. This post was written by Melanie Riehl
